'The Science of Consciousness' Conference | April 2-7, 2018
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort - Tucson, Arizona
Final Call for Abstracts – NEW Deadline: JANUARY 2, 2018
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 Piattelli 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: center@email.arizona.edu
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
DEADLINES:
JANUARY 2, 2018 General Conference Abstracts - Final Deadline
February 15 - Final Program and Abstract Revisions to Print
REGISTRATION
Standard $550
Students $450
Workshops $50-$75 – optional
Thurs. Dinner/Show $75 -optional
INCLUDED IN REGISTRATION
Tuesday Welcome Reception
All Plenary, Concurrent Sessions
Wednesday and Friday Posters/Demos / Evening Light Receptions
Saturday Closing Dinner Party
Meditation, Yoga
The Hotel offers free shuttles to Sabino Canyon - www.sabinocanyon.com
2018 Sponsors/Exhibitors/Advertisers: center@email.arizona.edu
2018 Press: Limited number - Please open registrations and email your requests
Abi Behar Montefiore, center@email.arizona.edu | http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu
tel: 520-621-9317 | +text: 520-247-5785