2018 The Science of Consciousness Conference, Tucson

LOEWS VENTANA CANYON

April 2 - April 7, 2018

TSC 2018 PLENARY SESSIONS  - Links to Videos

Monday– April 2, 2018
Plenary 1 (PL1)
Consciousness, Evolution and Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRSxR9Us9QM
Jean-Pierre Changeux, Collège de France Institut Pasteur
Noam Chomsky, University of Arizona Discussants:
Thomas G. Bever, University of Arizona
Massimo Piattelli Palmarini, University of Arizona

Tuesday - April 3, 2018

Plenary 2 (PL2)

Consciousness and Psychedelics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pju9yvX1w1k
Robin Carhart Harris, Imperial College, London
Jimo Borjigin, University of Michigan
Anil K. Seth, University of Sussex

Wednesday - April 4, 2018

Plenary 3 (PL3)

Language and Our Inner Voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYCMUBB7LA
Charles Fernyhough, Durham University
Riny Huijbregts, Utrecht University
Andrea Moro, IUSS School for Advanced Studies

Plenary 4 (PL4)
Cognitive and Consciousness Enhancement Technology
https://youtu.be/SZU03jlxaZ8
Pattie Maes, MIT Media Lab
Steven Gullans, Cleveland Clinic, Excel Venture Management

Plenary 5 (PL5)
Neural Correlates of Consciousness: Where, When and How?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwMyUf_eWQ
George Mashour, University of Michigan
Yan Xu, University of Pittsburgh
Marine Vernet, NIMH/NIH

Thursday - April 5, 2018

Plenary 6 (PL6)
Physics and Consciousness I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKbW603rM14

Lucien Hardy, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Robert Alfano, City College of New York
Christoph Simon, University of Calgary

Plenary 7 (PL7
Brain Scale and Harmony
https://youtu.be/FNlRcEiAnfw

Paul Verschure, SPECS, Barcelona Institute of Science
Selen Atasoy, University of Oxford

Plenary 8 (PL8)
Origin and Evolution of Life and Consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ygHHHeRq0I&t=13s

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, 2018

Plenary 9 (PL9)
Physics and Consciousness II
Anirban Bandyopadhyay, NIMS, Japan, IIIR, India
George F.R. Ellis, University of Capetown

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n941JWmT_xQ

Keynote - Why Algorithmic Systems Possess No Understanding
Sir Roger Penrose, University of Oxford
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n941JWmT_xQ

Plenary 10 (PL10)
Keynote – The ‘Meta-Problem’ of Consciousness
David Chalmers, New York University
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9xbQXqgxAA

Plenary 11 (PL11)
Idealism and Panpsychism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P6xgydJrO0
Deepak Chopra, Chopra Foundation, UCSD
Hedda Hassel Mørch, New York University
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona

Saturday - April 7, 2018

Plenary 12 (PL12)
How Do Anesthetics Act to Selectively Prevent Consciousness?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDpkhaBiTFc
M. Bruce MacIver, Stanford University
Robert Pearce, University of Wisconsin
Rod Eckenhoff, University of Pennsylvania
Travis Craddock, Nova Southeastern University

Plenary 13 (PL13)
Perceptual Integration and Disintegration

https://youtu.be/Qukdj6p6WzE

Ladan Shams, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
Anthony Hudetz, University of Michigan

Plenary 14 (PL14)
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Consciousness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5QxhYner7U
Paul Werbos, (ret.) National Science Foundation
David Hanson, Hanson Robotics
Julia Mossbridge, IONS Sophia the Humanoid Hanson Robot

Thank you to our sponsor Alvin J. Clark Foundation for support in making these videos available to the general public.