TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS    2008 

CONCURRENT SESSIONS

Tuesday April 8 - 4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

Concurrent Sessions C1 - C7      

C1: Materialism / Dualism

• Sam Coleman, Two-Dimensionalism and the Knowledge Argument: No Fit Sherlock 
  
• Robert Howell, Deduction, Necessitation, and Consciousness 
  
• Craig DeLancey, The Modal Argument and the Complexity of Phenomenal Experiences 
  
• Angie Harris, Bridging a Gap Within The Gap: Strengthening the Link Between Primary and Secondary Possibility
• Uriah Kriegel, Space-Soul Blues  
  

C2: Phenomenology of Thought

Chair: Adam Arico

• David Pitt, The Introspective Availability of Intentional Content 
  
• Joëlle Proust, Is there a sense of agency for thought? 
  
• Tim Bayne, The Reach of Phenomenal Consciousness 
  
• Marius Dumitru, What It Is Like to Think. On Cognitive Phenomenology, Functionalism, and Externalism 
  
• Richard Brown, HOT Implies PAM: Why Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness are Committed to a Phenomenal Aspect For All Mental States, Even Beliefs  
  

C3: Emotion / Theory of Mind

• Nevia Dolcini, Self-Consciousness and Intersubjectivity in Young Children 
  
• Ralph Ellis, Could Panksepp's "Seeking" System Be the Key to the Problem of Consciousness? 
  
• Joel Krueger, Empathy and Moral Perception 
  
• Peter Breznay, Theory of Mind in Artificial Neural Networks and Related Systems: Towards a Computational Model of Consciousness 
  
• Stephen Biggs, The Phenomenal Mindreader 
  

C4: Vision

Chair: Michael Bruno

• Robert Kentridge, Attended But Unseen: Visual Attention is Not Sufficient for Visual Awareness. 
  
• Stephen Macknik, The role of feedback in visual masking, visual awareness and attention 
  
• Stephen Emrich, Transient Neglect: How a Visual Short-Term Memory Task Leads to Impaired Awareness for Objects in the Left Visual Field 
  
• Susana Martinez-Conde, Microsaccades drive illusory motion in “Enigma” 
  
• Benjamin Kozuch, Consciousness Is Involved in Fine-Grained Motor Action, Sort Of 
  

C5: Psychopathology and Therapy

Chair: Marilyn Schlitz

• Sangeeta Nair, Neural Correlates of Response Inhibition in Patients with Schizophrenia vs. Healthy Controls: A Resting State fMRI Study. 
  
• Cassandra Vieten, Toward a Theory of Consciousness Transformation 
  
• Timothy DeLorey, Does Autism Spectrum Disorder Provide Any Insight Into the Conscious State? 
  
• Maria Kozhevnikov, Influence of Meditation Styles on Visual/Spatial Cognition 
  
• Sharon Jones-Forrester Descriptive Experience Sampling of Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Study Illustrating the Importance of Careful Examination of Phenomena  

C6: Time

Chair: Daniel Sheehan

• Philippe Chuard, Temporal Experience and the Counting Problem 
  
• Erich Harth, The Role of Phenomenal Time in the Emergence of Consciousness 
  
• Natika Newton, Brain tricks with space and time 
  
• Christopher Lay, Time-consciousness and Normal, Everyday consciousness  
  
• Harald Atmanspacher, Non-Commutative Measurement Operations in Psychology 
  

C7: Social Approaches to Consciousness

Chair: Anthony Freeman

• Allan Combs, Collective Consciousness and the Social Brain.  
  
• Charles Whitehead, The Neural Correlates of Having Fun: Recent imaging research, social mirror theory, and some implications for the evolution of self-consciousness 
  
• Corrado Sinigaglia, Mirror neurons: What we can and cannot say 
  
• David Craik,  Spiritual Experience and the Theory of Anti-Structure 
• Stanley Krippner Transpersonal Phenomenological Parameters of Human Sexual Experience
  

Wednesday April 9 - 4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

Concurrent Sessions C8 - C14

C8: Panpsychism

• William Seager, A Novel Argument for Panpsychism 
  
• Leopold Stubenberg, Panpsychism or Neutral Monism 
  
• Stephen Deiss, Machines or Sentient Beings: A Panpsychist Manifesto 
  
• David Skrbina, State space dynamics and a hylonoetic theory of mind 
  
• Jonathan S. Powell, Psychophysical bridging and Orch OR 
  

C9: Contents of Consciousness

Chair: Brian Fiala

• William Robinson, Three Kinds of Transparency 
  
• Susanna Schellenberg, Introspection and the Particularity of Perceptual Experience 
  
• Brad Thompson, Seeing Through Appearances 
  
• Maja Spener, Introspection as Conscious Achievement 
  
• Enrico Grube, Propositionalism and the Content of Experience 
  

C10: Consciousness in the Natural and Cultural Context (CNCC)

• Julian Kiverstein, Consciousness, Agency and Will 
  
• Manos Tsakiris, The bodily self: from body-perception to body-ownership 
  
• Alexandre Billon, Metacognition Without Metarepresentation: Implications for Consciousness Studies 
  
• Finn Spicer, Simulation, self-knowledge and metacognitive judgement. 
  
• Jeroen Smeets, Being Conscious of What is Reachable in the Peripersonal Space 
  

C11: Neurobiological Theories and Models

• Bill Faw, Modern Consciousness Science as Fechner's Inner Psychophysics 
  
• Eric LaRock, Neuroscience, Kant, and the Unity of Consciousness  
  
• Susan Pockett, Episodic global synchrony at all frequencies: implications for discrete/continuous consciousness debate. 
  
• Walter J Freeman, Toward Hierarchical Models of Perceptual Dynamics of Cerebral Cortex 
  
• Todd E. Feinberg,  The Nested Hierarchy Theory of Consciousness (NHTC) 
  

C12: Altered States

• Gurpreet Chopra, Psychedelic Facilitated Altered State of Consciousness as a Therapeutic Intervention: A Case History of a 54-year-old Woman Treated with Psilocybin for Cancer-Related Anxiety 
  
• Zoran Josipovic, Toward the Neural Correlate of Nondual Awareness 
  
• Arthur Hastings, Evoking an MDMA (Ecstasy) State Through Hypnotic Suggestion Without the Drug. 
  
• Marco Benz, Into the Scanner, Out of the Body: Neural Correlates of Ketamine-Induced Alterations in Body Perception 
  
• Stephen Whitmarsh, Immediate and long-term effects of meditation on the processing and anticipation of visual stimuli 
  

C13: Consciousness and Julian Jaynes

Chair: Brian McVeigh

• John Limber, Consciousness is just a word: Julian Jaynes and contemporary psychology
•  Brian McVeigh, The Lost Voice of God: Julian Jaynes and Neurotheology 
• Marcel Kuijsten, Auditory Hallucinations and the Bicameral Mind: New Evidence for Julian Jaynes’s Neurological Model 
• Scott Greer, Julian Jaynes, Historical Psychology, and the Role of Metaphor in the Generativity and Discontinuities of Concepts of Identity 
• John Hainly, Mythological Consciousness: Jaynes’ Bicameral Mind & Vico’s Imaginative Universals 
  

C14: Art and Literature

Chair: Jim Laukes

• Neil Scheurich, Narrative Consciousness and Psychological Enhancement 
  
• John Callender, The Aesthetics of Consciousness 
  
• Erik Davis, Philip K. Dick, Gnostic Science Fiction, and the Problem of Religious Experience 
  
• Nicholas Tresilian, The Swarming of the Memes 
• Diane Gromala The Visceral Register: Toward a Phenomenology of the "Second Brain"
  

Friday April 11 - 4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

Concurrent Sessions 15-22  

C15: Theories of Consciousness

• Nicoletta Orlandi, Ambiguous Figures and Representationalism 
  
• Alan Thomas, Higher Order Thoughts, Self-Ascription and Conscious Unity 
  
• Kenneth Williford, Self-Representationalism and the Problems of Subjectivity  
  
• Rocco Gennaro, How "Global" is HOT Theory? 
  
• Josh Weisberg, Introspective Ascent and the Thinness of First-Person Authority  
  

C16: Concepts of Consciousness

• Pete Mandik, Consciousness without Subjectivity 
  
• Par Sundstrom, Hume's missing shade of blue and the prospects of phenomenal concept empiricism 
  
• Adam Arico, The Folk Psychology of Consciousness 
  
• Dave Beisecker, Zombies and the Phenomenal Concept Strategy 
  
• Bernard Kobes, From Phenomenal Overflow to Inaccessible Phenomenal States: Filling a Gap in Block's Argument. 
  

C17: Action / Embodiment

• Erik Myin, Sensory Substitution As Sensorimotor Extension: Beyond Dominance and Deference  
  
• Andrew Brook, Extended Consciousness? 
  
• Andrew Bailey, Embodied Cognition: Dualism Redux? 
  
• Michael Bruno, Action and Visual Consciousness 
  
• Ron Chrisley, Enactive Representationalism? An Expectation-Based Architecture for Perceptual Experience 
  

C18: Unconscious States

Chair: Valerie Gray-Hardcastle

• Anthony Hudetz, Anesthesia: When The Front Fails To See The Back 
  
• Ross Levin, Correlates of Bad Dream and Nightmare Narratives: Implications for a Neurocognitive Model of Disturbed Dream Generation  
  
• Steve Holloway, Feedback May Promote Sub-threshold Dot-Motion Detection 
  
• Antonio Zadra, Phenomenological experiences in adult sleepwalkers 
  
• Aaron Schurger, Category discrimination without awareness in normal subjects, via dichoptic color fusion 
  

C19: Physics

Chair: Gustav Bernroider

• Giuseppe Vitiello, The dissipative many-body model and vortices in brain waves 
  
• Stanley Klein, Granger Causality, Synchrony and Oscillations: Testing Quantum Mechanisms of Consciousness  
  
• Giuseppe Castagnoli, On a Fundamental, Nondeterministic Problem Solving Mechanism Explaining the Wholeness of Perception 
  
• Casey Blood, Quantum Mechanics Rigorously Implies Consciousness is Nonphysical 
  
• Ian Thompson, Minds form a Discrete Degree, in the Same Way that the Physical has Discrete Degrees 
  

C20: Evolution of Consciousness

• John Stewart, The potential future development of consciousness 
  
• Alex Gamma, Common Errors in Explanatory Appeals to Evolution 
  
• Rex Welshon, Parietal Cortex Expansion, Working Memory, and the Emergence of Consciousness 
  
• Jan Sleutels, Recent changes in the structure of consciousness? 
  
• Carl Johan Calleman , The Origin of Life - Multilevel Creation Fields Generating the Evolution of Consciousness 
  

C21: Conscious and Technology

• Jayne Gackenbach, Dreams and Electronic Media: Current Status 
  
• Tom Froese, The Enactive Torch: Promoting First-Person Phenomenology in the Study of Enactive Perception 
  
• Steve Torrance, Artificial Agents and Moral Status: The role of Consciousness Present and Absent. 
  
• John Waterworth, Information technology, the sense of presence, and the evolution of the conscious self 
  
• Carol Davis, Non-Linear Energy Field Pupillary Response 
  

C22: Art & Technology Exhibit

Curator: Rene Stettler

• Margaret Dolinsky, Virtual Reality: Image Structure and Consciousness Organization 
  
• Ana Eva Iribas-Rudín , Altered States of Consciousness and Visual Arts: Salvador Dalí, Henri Michaux and Antoni Tàpies 
  
• Debi DuSold, BrainPaint is our first peak at consciousness in a visual medium. 
  
• Sun-Don Lee, Totemic Energy Oil Painting - Understanding the Inner Potential 
  
• Gino Yu, Lucid 2.0 a Development Environment for Synthesizing and Measuring Interactive Audio and Visual Experiences  
  
• TingTing Chen, Consciousness and Human Interface Technology