<div dir="ltr">Dear list subscribers, <div><br></div><div>Some of you may find the video recordings from the following conference interesting. </div><div><br></div><div>Regars</div><div><br></div><div>Nao <br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>--- </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgw74V_os7QOANe8e78eFeA" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgw74V_os7QOANe8e78eFeA</a></div></div><div><br></div><div>Video recordings from the panpsychism workshop (20-21, July, 2014 at Byron Bay) available now!</div><div><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Palatino,Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif"><br></h1><h1 style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Palatino,Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">Consciousness - here, there, everywhere? The prospects for panpsychism</h1><div style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,'DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:14.3999996185303px"><h2 style="margin:0px 0px 10px;padding:0px;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-family:Palatino,Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif">Sunday 20th and Monday 21st of July 2014</h2></div></div><div><strong style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,'DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:14.3999996185303px">Speakers:</strong><ul style="margin:0px 0px 1.5em 1.75em;padding:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,'DejaVu Sans',sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:14.3999996185303px"><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Naotsugu Tsuchiya (neuroscience, Monash University) </li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">David Chalmers (philosophy, ANU, NYU)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Mandyam Srinivasan (neuroscience, U of Queensland)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Monica Gagliano (evolutionary biology, U of Western Australia)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Yasuo Kuniyoshi (robotics, U of Tokyo)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Janet Wiles (engineering, U <span style="line-height:14.3999996185303px">of Queensland)</span></li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px">Larisa Albantakis (neuroscience, U of Wisconsin)</li><li style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><span style="line-height:14.3999996185303px">Giulio Tononi (neuroscience, U of Wisconsin)</span></li></ul></div><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><span lang="EN-US">Panpsychism is a meta-theoretical framework, which assumes that the mind is a fundamental feature of our universe with some degree of consciousness present in all things. A theme that can be traced back to Western and Eastern philosophies from Ancient Greece to Mahayana Buddhism, panpsychism has seen a resurgence in contemporary philosophy and neuroscience as a potential framework for addressing the hard problem of consciousness. <br></span></p><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><div><img src="https://ssl.gstatic.com/ui/v1/icons/mail/images/cleardot.gif"></div></div></span><div><span class=""><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">In late July 2014 the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness re-considered panpsychism at a satellite event complementing their 18<sup>th</sup> annual conference. </div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.theassc.org/consciousness_here_there_everywhere_the_prospects_for_panpsychism" target="_blank">http://www.theassc.org/consciousness_here_there_everywhere_the_prospects_for_panpsychism</a></font><br></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px">Famous for its sleepy beachside atmosphere on the easternmost tip of mainland Australia, Byron Bay instead became the epicentre for two days of heated discussion addressing panpsychism from historical, philosophical, and neuroscientific viewpoints.<br><br>Topics of discussion varied from the perceptual capacity of the honeybee through Integrated Information Theory and the presence of consciousness in plants and artificial life. Recordings of several of the key lectures were taken and have been made available via the Tsuchiya Lab youtube account. Please join the discussion as we consider what a “radical idea” like panpsychism may bring to our understanding of consciousness.<span><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></div></span><span><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></font></i></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Sponsored by Monash University </font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i><br></i></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i><br></i></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px"><i><br></i></div></span></div></div><span class=""><span><font color="#888888">-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>-------------------------------------------------------------------------</div>Nao (Naotsugu) Tsuchiya, Ph.D.<br>1. Associate Professor<div> <span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">School of Psychological Sciences</span></div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:12.6666669845581px"> Faculty of Biomedical and Psychological Sciences</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px">, </span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-size:13px">Monash University </span></div><div>2. ARC Future Fellow<br>homepage: <a href="http://users.monash.edu.au/~naotsugt/Tsuchiya_Labs_Homepage" target="_blank">http://users.monash.edu.au/~naotsugt/Tsuchiya_Labs_Homepage</a></div></div></div></div>
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