Plenary Abstracts

                                                          P L E N A R Y   

                                    2014 - Toward a Science of Consciousness

                                  The Tucson Conference  -  20th Anniversary 

                                           April 21-26, 2014  PLENARY  1 - 12

                           PLENARY 1  -  The Hard Problem: Twenty Years On

                                   Tuesday, April 22, 2014       2:00 pm to 4:10 pm  

                                  David Chalmers                        Daniel C. Dennett                            Donald Hoffman

                                   David Chalmers, The Hard Problem of Consciousness: 342 Years On

                                   Daniel C. Dennett,  Does Time Fly When You're Having Philosophical Fun?

                                   Donald Hoffman, Conscious Agents: A Formal Theory of Consciousness

                              PLENARY 2 -     Attention and Consciousness

                                  Wednesday, April 23, 2014     8:30 am to 10:40 am

                          Michael Graziano                                     Alison Gopnik                                   Ned Block 

                           Michael Graziano, Consciousness and the Social Brain

                           Alison Gopnik, Lanterns and Spotlights: Childhood Consciousness and Ensemble Coding        

                           Ned Block, Unspecificity and Attention

                                                         Keynote

                       PLENARY 3 -   Consciousness and the Laws of Physics
                                   Wednesday, April 23, 2014     11:10 am to 12:30 pm  

                                                  Sir Roger Penrose

                           PLENARY 4 -   Subjectivity and Objectivity

                            Wednesday, April 23, 2014       2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

                          Rebecca Goldstein                           John Searle                                     Deepak Chopra 

                       Rebecca Goldstein, Consciousness and the Novel

                       John Searle, The Problem of Consciousness After Twenty Years

                       Deepak Chopra, The 'Combination Problem' in Scientific and Eastern Spiritual Approaches to Consciousness

                        PLENARY 5 - Brain Networks and Consciousness  
                            Thursday, April 24, 2014         8:30 am to 10:40 am

                         Bernard J. Baars                          Henry Markram                                 Karl Deisseroth

                         Bernard J. Baars,  Global Workspace Dynamics

                         Henry Markram, Emergent States from High Fidelity Brain Models

                         Karl Deisseroth,  Optical Deconstruction of Fully-Assembled Biological Systems

                                PLENARY 6 -   Time and Consciousness

                            Thursday, April 24, 2014     11:10 am to 12:30 pm

                                            David Eagleman                                          Julia Mossbridge

                                           David Eagleman,   Time and the Brain

                                          Julia Mossbridge,  Predictive Anticipatory Activity

                   PLENARY 7 -  Vision and Neural Correlates of Consciousness

                                    Friday, April 25, 2014       8:30 am to 10:40 am

                              Petra Stoerig                         Mary Peterson                                        Russell Hurlburt  

                             Petra Stoerig,  Your’s, Her’s, Mine? Self-Related Processes

                             Mary Peterson, Beyond the Classical Feed-Forward View of Figure-Ground Segregation

                             Russell Hurlburt, Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Implications for consciousness science, developmental

                               psychology, neuroscience, and self-understanding

                           PLENARY 8 -  Integrated Information Theory  

                                    Friday, April 25, 2014       11:10 am -12:30 pm

                                                    Christof Koch                                                           Giulio Tononi

                                           Christof Koch and Giulio Tononi                                          

                                           The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness:  Here, There But Not Everywhere

                       PLENARY 9  -  Quantum Approaches: Twenty Years On     

                                    Friday, April 25, 2014      2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

                     Max Tegmark                                 Stuart Hameroff                                         Anirban Bandyopadhyay  

                   M.E.Tegmark,  Consciousness as a State of Matter  

                   Stuart Hameroff, Quantum Vibrations In Microtubules - 'Orch Or' - 20 Years On

                   Anirban Bandyopadhyay,   Opening "Pandora's Box":  Direct Measurement of Microtubule Bundle Resonance

                      in a Live Neuronal Axon Suggests Scale-Invariant Brain Dynamics Extends Inside Neurons

                              PLENARY 10 -  Death and Consciousness

                               Saturday April 26, 2014       8:30 am to 10:40 am

                       Sam Parnia                                                 George Mashour                                Susan Blackmore 

                      Sam Parnia, Awareness During Resuscitation - A Prospective Case Study

                      George Mashour, Consciousness and the Dying Brain    

                      Susan Blackmore,  Dying All The Time    

                                    PLENARY 11 -  Mind Uploading

                            Saturday April 26, 2014     11:10 am to 12:30 pm

                                Kenneth Hayworth                                           Natasha Vita-More

                               Kenneth Hayworth, Consciousness and The Connectome: How Brain Circuits Encode Self

                               Natasha Vita-More, Substrate-Diverse Persons By Design

                           PLENARY 12  -    Panel: The next 20 years

                             Saturday April 26, 2014       2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

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