Toward a Science of Consciousness 1998

Sat Jan 31 18:54:47 EST 1998

           TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1998

                    TUCSON, ARIZONA
                 APRIL 27 - MAY 2, 1998

Program details are now available for the third Tucson conference on
"Toward a Science of Consciousness".  The conference will take place
from Monday April 27 to Saturday May 2, 1998, at the Tucson Convention
Center and Music Hall, sponsored by the University of Arizona.

Included below is an outline of plenary sessions and speakers, a list
of concurrent sessions, and registration details.  The information
below is subject to slight revision.  Note that the deadline for early
registration is FEBRUARY 2.

More details (including information on pre-conference workshops,
poster sessions, abstracts, lodging, detailed schedule, and so on) can
be found on the conference web sites at:

  http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/page.htm (general information)

  http://www.zynet.co.uk/imprint/Tucson/        (abstracts, etc)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE: David Chalmers, Stuart Hameroff, Alfred Kaszniak,
Christof Koch, Marilyn Schlitz, Alwyn Scott, Petra Stoerig, Keith
Sutherland, Michael Winkelman

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PLENARY SESSIONS

Monday April 27

PL1: THE SELF

   * G. Strawson: The self.
   * M.S. Gazzaniga: The mind's past.
   * J. Shear: Experiential clarification of `The problem of self'.

PL2: IMPLICIT PROCESSES

   * A. Greenwald: Simple mental feats that require conscious cognition
     (because unconscious cognition can't do them.)
   * P. Merikle: Is there memory for events during anesthesia?

PL3: PATHWAYS OF VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS

   * D. Milner: Unconscious visual processing for action: neuropsychological
     evidence.
   * M. Goodale: Unconscious visual processing for action: evidence from
     normal observers.
   * M. Mishkin: On the neural basis of visual awareness.

Tuesday April 28

PL4: SLEEP AND DREAMING

   * B. McNaughton: Sleep and dreaming [working title]
   * J.A. Hobson: Neuropsychology of dreaming consciousness.
   * S. LaBerge: Lucid dreaming: psychophysiological studies of
     consciousness during REM sleep.

PL5: INTEGRATIVE PERSPECTIVES

   * C. Koch: Visual awareness and the frontal lobes.
   * M. Tye: Representation and consciousness.

PL6: COLOR AND CONSCIOUSNESS

   * K. Nordby: A 'colorful' life in black and white.
   * C.L. Hardin: Color quality and color structure.
   * M. Nida-Rumelin: Color and consciousness [working title]

Wednesday April 29

PL7: TRANSPERSONAL PSYCHOLOGY

   * F. Vaughan: Essential dimensions of consciousness: Objective,
     subjective and intersubjective.
   * H. Hunt: Transpersonal and cognitive psychologies of consciousness: A
     necessary and reciprocal dialogue.
   * M. Schlitz: Transpersonal consciousness? Assessing the evidence.

PL8: EMOTIONAL EXPERIENCE

   * A. Kaszniak: Conscious experience and autonomic response to emotion
     following frontal lobe damage.
   * R.D. Lane: Subregions within the anterior cingulate cortex may
     differentially participate in phenomenal and reflective consciousness
     awareness of emotion.

Thursday April 30

PL9: EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS I

   * S. Mithen: Handaxes: Some hard evidence regarding the evolution of the
     mind and consciousness
   * N. Humphrey: Cave painting, autism and the evolution of the human mind.
   * Third speaker TBA

PL10: EVOLUTION AND FUNCTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS II

   * A.G. Cairns-Smith: If qualia evolved...
   * R.L. Gregory: What do qualia do?

PL11: THE EXPLANATORY GAP

   * J. Levine: Conceivability, possibility, and the explanatory gap
   * C. McGinn: The explanatory gap [working title]
   * G. Rosenberg: On the intrinsic nature of the physical.

Friday May 1

PL12: CULTURE AND CONSCIOUSNESS

   * A. Zajonc: Goethe and the science of consciousness: Toward a
     scientist's phenomenology of mind.
   * C. Laughlin: Biogenetic structural theory and the neurophenomenology of
     consciousness.
   * M. Winkelman: The fundamental properties of systems with consciousness.

PL13: BLINDSIGHT

   * P. Stoerig, A. Cowey, R. Goebel: Blindsight and its neuronal basis.
   * S. Zeki: Blindsight [working title]

PL14: SPACE, TIME, AND CONSCIOUSNESS

   * L. Smolin: Space, time and consciousness [working title]
   * P. Hut: Exploring actuality, through experiment and experience.
   * K. Yasue: Consciousness and photon dynamics in the brain.

Saturday May 2

PL15: NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

   * B. Baars: Is a real psychoscope possible? Inferring when brain scans
     show us conscious experiences.
   * A. Revonsuo: How to take consciousness seriously in cognitive
     neuroscience.
   * J.B. Newman: Beyond pandemonium: the role of the reticular core in
     unifying the stream of consciousness

PL16: AESTHETICS AND CONSCIOUSNESS

   * C.W. Tyler: The structure of interpersonal consciousness in art.
   * Second speaker TBA

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CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Each session will have five speakers.  For more details, see the
conference web site.

Monday April 27

C1: Qualia
C2: Neural correlates of consciousness
C3: Implicit cognition
C4: Time
C5: Isomorphism between phenomenology and neuroscience
C6: Crosscultural perspectives

Tuesday April 28

C7: Materialism and dualism
C8: The function of consciousness
C9: Attention and vision
C10: Quantum biology and consciousness
C11: Parapsychology
C12: Consciousness and literature
C13: Awareness, attention, and memory during sleep

Thursday April 30

C14: The concept of consciousness
C15: Computational and cognitive models
C16: Blindsight
C17: Evolution of consciousness
C18: Altered states of consciousness
C19: First-, second-, and third-person perspectives
C20: Unconscious influences on motivational/affective awareness

Friday May 1

C21: Unity of consciousness and the self
C22: Ethics
C23: Sleep and dreaming
C24: Consciousness and physical reality
C25: Emotion and volition
C26: Art, music, and consciousness

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REGISTRATION FORM

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Conference Fees
___  Early registration (payment received before February 2)      $250.00
___  Registration fee (payment received after February 2)         $325.00
___  Early student registration fee (payment before February 2)   $100.00
        Please include a copy of your current student ID.
___  Student registration fee (for current, full-time students)   $150.00

Other Fees
___  Banquet, April 29, White Stallion Ranch                       $55.00
___  Guest at banquet (Name ___________________________)           $55.00
Meal choice: ___ chicken  ___ salmon  ___ vegetarian

Pre-conference Workshops
Saturday, April 25
All day
___  Observing the Mind: Basic Training in Skilled Means (C. Tart) $90.00
___  Dream Interpretation (D. Roomy)                               $90.00
Morning
___  Health, Healing and Consciousness (Kohatsu/Koffler/Lee)       $45.00
Afternoon
___  "Global workspace" capacity in the brain (B. Baars)           $45.00

Sunday, April 26
Morning
___  Overview of Tucson III (V. Shamas)                            $45.00
___  Quantum Theory, Reality and Consciousness (P. Pylkkanen)      $45.00
___  Exceptional Experience in Sports (R. White & S. Brown)        $45.00
Afternoon
___  The Mammalian Visual System (C. Koch)                         $45.00
___  Exploring Consciousness with Lucid Dreaming (S. LaBerge)      $45.00
___  Consciousness and the Binding Problem (A. Revonsuo)           $45.00

Field Trips
___  Sabino Canyon                                                 $45.00
___  Tubac and San Xavier                                          $45.00

                                                            Total  $_____

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Cancellation policy: If you cancel your registration in writing by
March 27, you'll receive a refund less a $35 cancellation
fee. Non-attendance does not constitute a cancellation.

If you have a disability and require accommodation, please contact us at the
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