THE SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS                                   

April 25-30, 2016 - Tucson, ARIZONA

Loews Ventana Canyon Hotel

Meetings

Plenary Sessions  PL1 - PL12

Tuesday April 26 - Saturday April 30, 2016

Kiva Ballroom

 

Speaker Bios -  click on photos

 

FINAL PROGRAM and ABSTRACTS - click here

 

TUESDAY, April 26, 2016

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm   

PL 1 -Five Roads to Consciousness

         Stuart Hameroff Headshot

Stanislas Dehaene, PhD, INSERM-CEA, Paris 

Anil K. Seth, PhD, University of Sussex, Brighton 

Stuart Hameroff, MD, University of Arizona, CCS, Tucson   

 

WEDNESDAY, April 27, 2016

8:30 am to 10:40 am

PL 2 - Brain Biology

                    

Rudolph Tanzi, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston    

Selen Atasoy, UNSW, Sydney

Anirban Bandyopadhyay, PhD, NIMS, Tsukuba     

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016

11:10 am to 12:30 pm

PL 3 - Consciousness and Reality

         

Deepak Chopra, MD, Chopra Foundation; UCSD COM 

David Chalmers, PhD, Australian National University; NYU 

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27, 2016

2:00pm to 4:10 pm

PL 4 - Five Roads to Consciousness 2

            

Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Monash University, Melbourne

Richard Brown, CUNY, Laguardia College, New York

Jakob Hohwy Monash University, Melbourne 

 

THURSDAY, April 28, 2016

8:30 am to 10:40 am

PL 5 - Conscious Intention and Free Will 

         

Aaron Schurger, École Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne  

Panel – Time, Free Will and the BrainRuth Kastner, University of Maryland 
Daniel Sheehan, University of San Diego
Ron Gruber, Stanford University
Martin Nowakowski, Gdansk University
Matti Vuorre, Columbia University  
Julia Mossbridge, Northwestern University 

 

THURSDAY, April 28, 2016

11:10 am to 12:30 pm

PL 6 - AI/Machine Consciousness

            

Harmut Neven,  Google

Christian Szegedy, Google 

 

FRIDAY, April 29, 2016

8:30 am to 10:40 am

PL 7 - Quantum Approaches 1

          Alyssa Ney

Henry Stapp, UC-Berkeley

Kelvin McQueen, University of Tel Aviv

Alyssa Ney, UC-Davis

 

FRIDAY, April 29, 2016

11:10 am to 12:30 pm

PL 8 - Evolution and Consciousness

      

Terrence W. Deacon,  UC-Berkeley

Katherine T. Peil, Northeastern U, Boston

 

FRIDAY, April 29, 2016

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

PL 9 - 'Pribram Session' – Brain Dynamics

     

Anthony Hudetz,  Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor

György Buzsáki, NYU Neuroscience Instit, NYC

Walter J. Freeman,  UC Berkeley

Karen Shanor, Georgetown University

 

SATURDAY, April 30, 2016

8:30 am to 10:40 am

PL 10 - Scale and Connectivity

                      

Alison Gopnik,  UC-Berkeley

Robin Carhart Harris, Imperial College, London

Martin Monti, UCLA

 

SATURDAY, April 30, 2016

11:10 am to 12:30 pm

PL 11 - Quantum Approaches 2

    

Dean Radin, IONS, Petaluma

Stuart Kauffman, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle 

 

SATURDAY, April 30, 2016

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

PL 12  - NCC 3 -Anomalous Conscious Experience  

     Jimo Borjigin    

George Mashour, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Jimo Borjigin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Peter Fenwick,  Kings College, Southampton