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Tucson consciousness conference

David Chalmers chalmers at arizona.edu
Wed Mar 13 02:28:09 EST 2002


The final program for the 2002 Tucson conference on "Toward a Science
of Consciousness" is now available.  Program details are below.  Full
details on registration, lodging, and the like are available online at

  http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/tucson2002/

--David Chalmers (program chair).

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TUCSON 2002: TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS

April 8-12, 2002

Tucson Convention Center and Music Hall


PLENARY PROGRAM

Monday April 8

8:30-10:40 SENSORY SUBSTITUTION I: VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS IN BLIND SUBJECTS?
Chair: David Chalmers

Paul Bach-y-Rita  Tactile sensory substitution in blind subjects
Peter Meijer      Seeing with sound: Is it vision?
Pat Fletcher      Seeing with sound: A journey into sight

11:10-12:35 SENSORY SUBSTITUTION II: NEURAL PLASTICITY IN CROSSMODAL PERCEPTION
Chair: Joseph Tolliver

Mriganka Sur     Rewiring cortex
Alva Noe         Neural plasticity and consciousness: An enactive approach

2:00-4:10:  NEURAL CORRELATES OF MEDITATIVE EXPERIENCE
Chair: Marilyn Schlitz

Andrew Newberg   The neurochemical correlates of meditation
Fred Travis      Cortical patterns of transcendental states
Antoine Lutz     Synchrony patterns induced by 3D illusion in meditative states

4:30-6:35:  Concurrent sessions [see below]

7:00-10:00  Poster session


Tuesday April 9

8:30-10:40  CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS DECISION-MAKING
Chair: Mary Peterson

Elkhonon Goldberg  Actor-centered decision-making and the frontal lobes
Michael Shadlen    The time it takes to see and do: Acculuating the evidence
Ranulfo Romo       Exploring the cortical evidence of a simple decision process

11:10-12:35 BINOCULAR RIVALRY AND THE NCC
Chair: Christof Koch

Randolph Blake     Binocular rivalry as a tool for studying the NCC
Sheng He           Parallel visual pathways to awareness

2:00-4:10:  THE CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Chris Maloney

Michael Tye        Perceptual experience, phenomenal unity, and content
Susan Blackmore    Are you sure you have the contents of consciousness?
Philip Pettit      Motion blindness and the knowledge argument

4:30-6:35:  Concurrent sessions [see below]

7:00-10:00  Poster session


Wednesday April 10

8:30-10:40  EMOTION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Lis Nielsen

Al Kaszniak     Challenges in the empirical study of conscious emotion
Ralph Adolphs   Understanding emotion: Insight from cognitive neuroscience
Dick Bierman    An fMRI study of anomalous anticipation of emotional stimuli

11:10-12:35 MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Axel Cleeremans

Ray Kurzweil    How can we possibly tell if its conscious?
Rodney Brooks   Metaphors for consciousness

5:00-8:30pm   BANQUET (Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum)

Thursday April 11

8:30-10:40  CONSCIOUSNESS IN ACTION
Chair: Lynn Nadel

Vittorio Gallese   From self-modeling to self-representation
Jeffrey Schall     On the neural basis of self-control and self-monitoring
Daniella Meeker    Cognitive control of prosthetic systems

11:10-12:35 IS THERE PURE CONSCIOUSNESS?
Chair: Charles Siewert

Barry Dainton      The gaze of consciousness
Jonathan Shear     A quale for pure consciousness?

2:00-4:10   ART, BRAIN, AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Logan Trujillo

V. Ramachandran  Synesthesia, qualia, and the meaning of art
Semir Zeki       Neural concept formation and art: Dante, Michelangelo, Wagner
Amy Ione (comm.) Examining neurological investigations of art

4:30-6:35:  Concurrent sessions [see below]

7:00-10:00  Poster session

10:00-11:30 Poetry Slam


Friday April 12

8:30-10:40  CONSCIOUSNESS AND WAKEFULNESS IN SLEEP AND COMA
Chair: Fred Plum

Carlos Schenck    Parasomnias: Altered dreams and unconscious automatic states
Nicholas Schiff   Evaluating consciousness is servely brain injured patients
Petra Stoerig     (commentator)

11:10-12:35 NONCLASSICAL BRAIN PROCESSES
Chair: Stuart Hameroff

Andrew Duggins    On the emergence paradox
Nancy Woolf       The horizontal cortical syncytium: A model for the NCC

2:00-4:10   DOWNWARD CAUSATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: William Seager

Claus Emmeche     Downward causation and the habits of mind
Dean Radin        Exploring the limits of downward causation
William Robinson  Zooming in on downward causation

7:00        "End of Consciousness" Party


CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Concurrent sessions will be held from 4:30-6:35pm on Monday, Tuesday,
and Thursday.  There will be six or seven sessions at a time, each of
which will include five talks of 20 minutes each, plus five minutes
each for discussion.


Monday April 8

PHENOMENAL CONCEPTS AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP
Chair: Robert van Gulick
  D. Beisecker, R. Gordon, N. Maxwell, W. Savage, K. Stueber

THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES
Chair: Bernard Baars
  A. Cleeremans, S. Horst, Y. Nakamura, A. Revonsuo, E. Schwitzgebel

CONSCIOUSNESS AND ACTION
Chair: Vittorio Gallese
  H. Ehrsson, H. Johnson, D. Legrand, M. McBeath, F. Maeda

QUANTUM MECHANICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Stuart Hameroff
  A. Plotnisky, A. Priel, O. Rossler, S. Sevush, K. Wetz

ALTERED STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Susan Blackmore
  M. Eagar, J. Hanna, R. Havens, T. Hubbard, C. Tart

ETHICS AND VALUES
Chair: Keith Sutherland
  C. De Quincey, A. Freeman, D. Heikes, D. Merrifield, M. Spencer


Tuesday April 9

HIGHER-ORDER THOUGHT AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Erik Myin
  M. Ferrari, R. Gennaro, R. van Gulick, A. Vinueza, J. Weisberg

QUALIA AND MATERIALISM
Chair: Murat Aydede
  T. Alter, A. Bailey, W. Hirstein, Y. Nagasawa, J. Symons

UNCONSCIOUS PROCESSES
Chair: Axel Cleeremans
  M. Alkire, H. Haider, E. Norman, G. Sarty, M. Snodgrass

VISION AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Rodney Brooks
  J. Enns, S. Iwasaki, R. Kentridge, S. Lehar, W. Wojtach

FIRST-PERSON METHODS
Chair: Al Kaszniak
  S. Brown, J. Coan, B. Faw, C. Heavey, R. Hurlburt

ART AND CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: Roy Ascott
  K. Creath, S. Haworth, L. Lisowsky, M. Punt, M. Solano

PARAPSYCHOLOGY
Chair: Dean Radin
  L. Johnson, A. Morgana, T. Richards, S. Schmidt, C. Seiter


Thursday April 11

THE CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: William Robinson
  M. Aydede, E. Myin, J. Petranker, C. Siewert, B. Thompson

EMERGENCE AND PANPSYCHISM
Chair: Anthony Freeman
  A. Rangarajan, G. Rosenberg, D. Skrbina, M. Silberstein, H. Wong

NEURAL SYNCHRONY AND BINOCULAR RIVALRY
Chair: Patrick Wilken
  J. Hart, E. LaRock, S. Slotnick, Y. Tamori, L. Trujillo

SLEEP AND DREAMING
Chair: Nancy Woolf
  M. Blagrove, D. Grasbon, D. Kahn, M. Kosmova, A. Zeman

CONSCIOUSNESS AND TIME
Chair: John Sanfey
  J. Barresi, I. Havel, L. Hitterdale, K. Mogi, F. Ullen

CROSSCULTURAL APPROACHES
Chair: Jonathan Shear
  J. Collins, M. Cornelissen, L. Pflueger, R. Sorenson, A. Wallace



POSTER SESSIONS

Poster sessions will be held on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday from
7:00-10:00pm.


PRECONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Preconference workshops will be held on the weekend preceding the
conference, April 6-7.

4/6, 9-6: Charles Tart
  Observing the Mind -- Basic Training in Skillful Means

4/6, 9-1: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgrafe
  Consciousness, Literature, and Theatre

4/6, 2-6: William Seager
  Philosophical Theories of Consciousness

4/6, 2-6: Peter Grossenbacher
  Varieties of Synesthetic Perception

4/7, 9-1: Marco Iacoboni
  Imitation, Language, and Intersubjectivity Studied with TMS and fMRI

4/7, 9-1: Susan Blackmore
  Introduction to Memetics

4/7, 9-1: Stuart Hameroff, Paavo Pylkkanen, and Nancy Woolf
  Quantum Computational Approaches to Consciousness

4/7, 9-1: Robert Kentridge and Charles Heywood
  From Photons to Colors: The Neural Bases of Color Perception

4/7, 9-1: Antoine Lutz and Evan Thompson
  Current Neurophenomenology Research

4/7, 2-6: Bernard Baars and Katherine McGovern
  What We Have Learned About the Consciousness and the Brain

4/7, 2-6: Stephen Laberge
  Exploring Consciousness with Lucid Dreaming

4/7, 2-6: Russell Hurlburt and Christopher Heavey
  Using the Descriptive Experience Sampling Method to Explore Inner Experience

4/7, 2-6: Marilyn Schlitz and Charles Tart
  Parapsychology: State of the Art and Implications for Consciousness Studies

4/7, 2-6: Axel Cleeremans
  Implicit and Explicit Processes in Cognition


BANQUET

The conference banquet will be held at the world-famous Arizona-Sonora
Desert Museum (outdoors in a beautiful location) from 5pm on Wednesday
April 10.


POETRY SLAM

Following conference tradition, a consciousness poetry slam will be
held at 10pm on Thursday April 11.  Any and all poetry on themes
related to consciousness and the conference is welcomed.




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