‘The Science of Consciousness’ Conference | April 2-7, 2018

‘The Science of Consciousness’ Conference | April 2-7, 2018

Loews Ventana Canyon Resort – Tucson, Arizona               

 

The Science of Consciousness (‘TSC’) is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to all aspects of the study and understanding of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, language, biology, quantum physics, meditation, altered states, machine consciousness, the nature of reality, culture and experiential phenomenology. 

 

Held annually since 1994, the conference is hosted by the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world.

 

PLENARY PROGRAM 2018

 

TUESDAY – APRIL 3

2:00 pm – 4:10 pm   

PLENARY 1 (PL1)   Consciousness and Psychedelics                                      

Robin Carhart Harris, Imperial College, London     

Jimo Borjigin, University of Michigan

Anil K. Seth, University of Sussex 

 

WEDNESDAY – APRIL 4   

8:30 am -10:40 am   

PLENARY 2 (PL2) Language and Our Inner Voice

Charles Fernyhough, Durham University      

Riny Huijbregts, Utrecht University   

Andrea Moro, IUSS School for Advanced Studies   

 

11:10 am – 12:30 pm   

PLENARY 3 (PL 3) Cognitive and Consciousness Enhancement Technology

Patti Maes, MIT Media Lab

Steven Gullans, Cleveland Clinic, Excel Medical Ventures   

 

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm    

PLENARY 4 (PL4) Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Where, When and How?    

George Mashour, University of Michigan                                           

Hakwan Lau, UCLA     

Uta Noppenay, University of Birmingham

 

THURSDAY – APRIL 5           

 8:30 am – 10:40 am   

PLENARY 5 (PL5) Physics and Consciousness I

 Lucien Hardy, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics      

Robert Alfano, City College of New York  

Christoph Simon, University of Calgary   

  

11:10 am – 12:30 pm   

PLENARY 6 (PL6) Language, Evolution and Consciousness

Noam Chomsky, University of Arizona                                              

Thomas Bever, University of Arizona      

Massimo Piatelli Palmarini, University of Arizona

 

2:00 pm – 4:45 pm   

PLENARY 7 (PL7) Origin and Evolution of Life and Consciousness    

Steen Rasmussen, University of Southern Denmark, Sante Fe Institute      

Stuart Kauffman, Sante Fe Institute    

Sara Walker, Arizona State University

Bruce Damer, UC Santa Cruz   

 

FRIDAY – APRIL 6           

8:30 am – 10:40 am   

PLENARY 8 (PL8) Physics and Consciousness II    

George F.R. Ellis, University of Cape Town 

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, NIMS, Japan, IIIR, India

TBA

 

11:10 am to 12:30 pm    

PLENARY 9 (PL9) Keynote – The ‘Meta-Problem’ of Consciousness                 

David Chalmers, New York University

 

2:00 pm – 4:10 pm   

PLENARY 10 (PL10)    Idealism, Panpsychism and Pan-Protopsychism    

Deepak Chopra, Chopra Foundation, UCSD   

Hedda Hassel Morch, New York University

Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona

 

SATURDAY – APRIL 7           

9:00 – 11:10 am    

PLENARY 11 (PL11) How Do Anesthetics Act to Selectively Prevent Consciousness?   

M. Bruce Maciver, Stanford University       

Robert Pearce, University of Wisconsin

Rod Eckenhoff, University of Pennsylvania

Travis Craddock, Nova Southeastern University

 

12:00 pm to 1:20 pm   

PLENARY 12 (PL12) Perceptual Integration and Disintegration        

Ladan Shams, UCLA      

Anthony Hudetz, University of Michigan

  

2:30 pm – 4:40 pm  

PLENARY 13 (PL13) Artificial Intelligence and Machine Consciousness    

Paul Werbos, National Science Foundation    

David Hanson, Hanson Robotics 

Julia Mossbridge, IONS  

Sophia the Humanoid Hanson Robot

WORKSHOPS – (Optional)

 

MONDAY April 2 (Session 1) – 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Language, Evolution and Consciousness – T. Bever, N. Chomsky, M. Palmarini-Piatelli and others

Mapping the Field of Consciousness Studies – A. Combs

Inner Experiences High Fidelity – R. Hurlburt, E. Schwitzgebel

DEI East West Forum (part 1) P. Satsangi, V. Sahni and others

 

MONDAY April 2 (Session 2) – 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Philosophical Theories of Consciousness – R. Gennaro

Quantum Biology – J. Tuszynski, A. Bandyopadhyay, S. Hameroff, others

Consciousness, Pain and Addiction – T. Vanderah,  M. Ibrahim, A. Patwardhan, L. Ditmanson,

M. Zepprich, R. Gelb

Consciousness Hacking – J. Sanguinetti, M. Siegel

DEI East West Forum (Part 2)

 

TUESDAY April 3 (Session 3)  –  9:00 am – 12:30 pm  (morning session only)

Network Science and Consciousness –  U. Lee, A. Hudetz, G. Mashour, D. Pal

Free Will, Agency and Consciousness – P. Pylkkanen, J. Wallezek, G. Musser

Interfacing with Non-Ordinary States – P. Maes, J. Amores, A. Horowitz, MIT Media Lab

AI/Robotics, Paul Verschure, Hanson Robotics

Time and Consciousness – C. Montemayor, H. Atmanspacher and others

Co-Sponsors:                                                                                                                                   

The Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson                          

The Center for Consciousness Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

 

TSC 2018 Program Committee:                                                                                           

Chair:  Stuart Hameroff, Co-Chairs:  Tom Bever, George Mashour                                 

John JB Allen, Harald Atmanspacher, Abi Behar-Montefiore, Betsy Bigbee, Alvin Clark, 

Mary Peterson, Eve Isham, James Tagg, Erik Viirre, Nancy Woolf, Jay Sanguinetti, Paavo Pylkkanen   

 

 

TSC 2018 | CONFERENCE LINKS

 

REGISTRATION

Online Abstract Submission system. Standard and Student Rates Available.

https://eagle.sbs.arizona.edu/sc/

Previous registrants who have TSC accounts may simply login to their accounts, fill out a badge request and

continue to the abstract submission process or payment process.

New to TSC?   Click here and open a basic registration record.

Questions:   [email protected] 

 

VENUE

Loews Ventana Canyon Hotel

Hotel Link Now OPEN  (Special rate for conference registrants only)

Early rate $109 night, based on availability, before February 17)  

https://www.loewshotels.com/ventana-canyon/the-science-of-consciousness-2018?_=1489426840432