Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008

Complete Program Day-By-Day

Locations:  TCC: Tucson Convention Center  /  HA: Hotel Arizona (3 minute walk from TCC)

Monday, April 7 

9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Pre-conference Workshops- Session 1

 TCC - GILA                    1.  What’s Globalist About Globalist Theories of Consciousness? Getting It Straight  -   

                                                    Bernard Baars, Katharine McGovern 

 TCC - GREENLEE       2.  Use of Mathematical Physics to Model Neural Correlates of Brain Activity in Perception and

                                                     Consciousness - Part  I  - Walter Freeman, Robert Kozma, Giuseppe Vitiello, Tian Yu Cao

 TCC -  MARICOPA      3.  New Directions in Brain Research:  Everything You Need to Know About the Social Brain

                                                     and its Implications for Consciousness -   David Craik, Charles Whitehead

 TCC - GRAHAM           4.  Consciousness and Self-Consciousness in Eastern & Western Philosophy -   

                                                      Paula Droege, Keya Maitra

TCC - MOHAVE              5.  Quantum Mechanisms in Neurons and Brain - Stuart Hameroff, Gustav Bernroider,

                                                      Daniel Sheehan

Monday, April 7 

2:00 pm to 6:00 pm 

Pre-conference Workshops- Session 2

TCC - GRAHAM                    6.   Philosophical Theories of Consciousness - Uriah Kriegel

HOTEL AZ-SAGEWOOD   7.   Fundamentals of Conscious Vision -  Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik

TCC - MOHAVE                    8.   Real-Time Consciousness, Volition and Action - A Tribute to Ben Libet  - Part  I

                                                             Lynn Nadel,   Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & others

TCC - GREENLEE               9.   Use of Mathematical Physics to Model Neural Correlates of Brain Activity in Perception

                                                             and Consciousness - Part 2  - Walter Freeman,   Robert Kozma, Giuseppe Vitiello, Tian Yu Cao

TCC - MARICOPA            10.    Lucid Dreaming  - Stephen LaBerge

TCC - COCONINO            11.   Games Brains Play: Neurological Disturbances of Self and Identity - Todd Feinberg

TCC - GILA                          12.   Reappraising Julian Jaynes’s Theory of Consciousness and Bicameral Mind -

                                                            30 Years of New Evidence - Brian J. McVeigh, Marcel Kuijsten

Tuesday, April 8 

9:00 am to 1:00 pm

Pre-conference Workshops- Session 3

TCC - MARICOPA            13.  Panpsychism: A Spectrum of Views - David Skrbina, Stephen Deiss & others

TCC - MOHAVE                 14.  Real-Time Consciousness, Volition and Action -  A Tribute to Ben Libet - Part 2 

TCC - GILA                          15.  Ayahuasca and Meditation Exploratory Field Research - Frank Echenhofer

TCC - COCONINO           16.  Transformations of Consciousness - Marilyn Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten

TCC - GRAHAM             17.  Can Inner Experience Be Faithfully Described? - Russell Hurlburt, Eric Schwitzgebel

HA - REDWOOD                18.  Meditation, Orgasm, Higher Consciousness: The Common Link - Kleopatra Ormos

TCC - GREENLEE            19.  The Relationship Between Top-Down Attention and Consciousness - Naotsugu Tsuchiya,

                                                            Christof Koch

HA - COTTONWOOD      20.   How Do You Feel? The Neuroanatomical Basis for Human Awareness of Interoceptive

                                                            Feelings From the Body - Bud Craig

HA - IRONWOOD             21.  The Unity of Consciousness - Timothy Bayne

Tuesday, April 8

1:45 pm to 4:10 pm

Conference Opening

Plenary Session 1 - LEO RICH THEATRE

Attention and Consciousness

• Christof Koch, Double Dissociations Between Attention and Consciousness
• Stanislas Dehaene, Collisions in Consciousness: The Role of a Global Neuronal Workspace in Masking and Central Limits
• Michael Tye,  Attention, Seeing, and Change Blindness

Tuesday, April 8

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

Concurrent Sessions 1- 7

C1: Materialism / Dualism                                        TCC - MOHAVE

• 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                   TCC - MARICOPA

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                      TCC - GREENLEE

• 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                                                      HA - STARLIGHT BALLROOM

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 
  
• Emrich Stephen, 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               HA - BALLROOM EAST

          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                                                         TCC - GRAHAM

           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   HA - BALLROOM WEST

          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 

Tuesday, April 8

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Opening Reception - TCC Lobby-Veranda - Gila, Coconino, Apache/Cochise

Art&Technology Exhibit 1  - During Opening Reception

René Stettler, Curator

0830-0900 PM, Bill Scott / Debi DuSold   “BrainPaintings”
0900-0930 PM, Lee Sun-Don   “Totemic Energy Oil Painting – Understanding the Inner Potential”

Wednesday, April 9

8:30 am to 10:40 am

Plenary Session 2 - LEO RICH THEATRE

Panel: Libet, Intention and the Timing of Conscious Experience

William Banks  We Infer Rather Than Perceive the Moment of Decision to Act in Libet's Measurement

Francesca Carota Time Course of Brain Activity During the Inten Intentition to Speak

John Jacobson Retroactive Modulation of Subjective Intentions: Philosophy, Science and Cyborgs

Daniel Sheehan Consciousness and the Physics of Time
Sue Pockett Is There Any Evidence for Retrocausation?

Wednesday, April 9

11:10am to 12:35pm

Plenary Session 3 (Keynote) - LEO RICH THEATRE

Andy Clark - Spreading the Joy? Why Consciousness is Still in the Head
 
Is consciousness all in the head, or might the minimal physical substrate for some forms of conscious experience include goings on in the (rest of the) body and the world? Such a view might be dubbed (by analogy with Clark and Chalmers work on 'the extended mind') 'the extended conscious mind'. In this talk I review a variety of arguments for the extended conscious mind, and find them all flawed. I then try to show why arguments for extended cognition do not generalize to arguments for an extended conscious mind.

Wednesday, April 9

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Plenary Session  4  - LEO RICH THEATRE

Sex and Consciousness

Barry Komisaruk Where is I? 

Jenny Wade In My Flesh Shall I See God: Sex as a Natural Trigger for “Varieties of Religious Experience”

 Panel: 'The varieties of sexual experience'

Stanley Krippner Transpersonal Phenomenological Parameters of Human Sexual Experience

Kleopatra Ormos Sex: Potential for Shared Consciousness

Torsten Passie Altered States of Consciousness and Subjective Experience During Sexual Intercourse

Wednesday, April 9

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

Concurrent Sessions 8 - 14

C8: Panpsychism                                                      TCC - MOHAVE

• 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                               TCC - MARICOPA

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                   TCC - GREENLEE

        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              HA - STARLIGHT BALLROOM

• 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                                                  HA - BALLROOM EAST

• 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                   HA - BALLROOM WEST

          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                                             HA - PALO VERDE

         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" 
  

Wednesday, April 9

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Poster Session 1  

P1:     Philosophy

• Michael Cerullo, A Proposal for a Turing Test of Emotion. 
  

• Carlos de Sousa, Emergence in the Global Neuronal Workspace Model:A Neurocognitive Hypothesis of Qualia  
  

• Jerome Elbert, A Possible Functional Role for Qualia 
  

• Stephen Anthony Farah, Can Cartesian Duality and Monism Co-Exist? 
  

• Brian Fiala, The Phenomenology of Explanation and the Explanation of Phenomenology 
  

• Eric Furcsik, The Inverse Mind-Body Problem 
  

• Nataliya Garntseva, From Dualism to Materialism and Back Again?  
  

• Ross F. Grumet, There is No Unconscious - Going Beyond Panpsychism: Consciousness As A Given of the Way the World is. 
  

• Pia Ikonen, Free Will In The Human Brain. A Solution Of The Problem. 
  

• Scott Jackson, “Retooling Sense Datum Theory: On the Existence of Abstract and Imaginary Sense Data” 
  

• Alex Kiefer, Peripheral Self-Awareness and Higher-order Content 
  

• Morey Kitzman, Contrasting Approaches to the Study of Consciousness 
  
• Michal Klincewicz, Brentano and Husserl on Self-Consciousness Redux 
  
• Uriah Kriegel, Space Soul Blues: An Argument for Phenomenal Intentionality 
  
• Shikhar Kumar, Beyond Self-Reference: Taking Consciousness Seriously 
  
• Caleb Liang, Perceptual Phenomenology and Direct Realism 
  
• Jennifer Matey, Perceptual Constancy in the Representational Nature of Visual Experience 
  
• Dylan Murray, The Phenomenal Concept Strategy Without Co-Reference 
  
• Cathal O Madagain, What language does for consciousness: Socially fixed Signs and Consciousness 'that...' 
  
• Max Payne, Two key questions about consciousness 
  
• Stephen Pearce, Monism: A Phenomenological and Neuroscientific Perspective 
  
• Anthony Peressini, Naturalizing Phenomenology and Intertheoretic Lessons from Physics 
  
• Mark Pestana, Outline of A Metaphysics of Hedonic Tone 
  
• Bryony Pierce, Consciousness as the Interface between Cognition and Emotion (‘ICE Theory’) 
  
• Matthew Piper, Complexity Theory and Theories of Consciousness: the Supervenience Hypothesis: Preface to a Theory of Complex Neurofunctionalism 
  
• Anand Rangarajan, A Postmodern Physicalism That Can Accommodate Experience 
  
• Kristin Schaupp, Consciousness and Laws in the Physical World 
  
• Roger C. Schriner, Strong Representationalism and Selective Attention 
  
• J.R. Shrader, Reassessing the Incompatibility of Ontological Emergence and Microphysical Realization: A Way to Advance the Debate over Nonreductive Physicalism?  
  
• Arthur Smith, It’s About Time 
  
• Khaldoun Sweis, Property Dualism Entails Substance Dualism 
  
• Kimberly Van Orman, The Problem of Explanation: A Call to Reject the Hidden Reduction in Non-Reductive Materialist Arguments for the Explanatory Gap  
  
• James Clement van Pelt, Dark Experience: methodologies for comprehending the experiential domain 
  
• Vadim Vasilyev, Interactionism is compatible with causal closure 
  
• Dmitry Volkov, Is Dennett's Multiple Drafts a Verifiable Hypothesis? 
  
• Christian Whittall, Toward a Consciousness of Science: Historical Models for a New Imaginative Scientific Method 
  
• Jerry Yang, Does Self-Representational Theory of Consciousness necessarily involve a dual content structure? 
  
• Benjamin Young, Mind the Phenomenal Concept 
  

P2: Neuroscience

• Erhard Bieberich, Update on Recurrent Fractal Neural Networks: From Anesthesia to Quantum Zeno Effect in Single Neuron Consciousness 
  
• Maria Brincker, The New Empirical Muscles of the Theory of Ideo-Motor Action  
  
• Mike Collins, Firing Rate and Periodicity as Candidate Representational Codes in Somatosensory Cortex 
  
• Nancy Craigmyle, A Possible Role for the Integrated Norepinephrine System in the Continuum of Consciousness 
  
• Erik Engdahl, Autism Spectrum Disorders - Neurological Abnormality and/or Cramped State of Communication Shutdown? 
  
• David Gelles, The Neural Correlates of Emotions - A Neglected Subset of the Neural Correlates of Consciousness.  
  
• Jodi Lasky, The Neurobiology of Tantric Sexual Pleasure 
  
• Alfred Levinson, Can Global Workspace Theory and State Dependent Network Theory Explain Libet? 
  
• Myrto Mylopoulos, Consciousness Out Of Control 
  
• James Pagel, The Eclipse Horizon of Dream 
  
• Ashley Willis, Our eyeballs - dual vibration / vision sensors 
  
• Rowe Young, Lost in Space- "Inverted Positioning Sensation"(IPS):as of yet Unidentified Contributing Cause For ADHD and/or LD  
  

P3: Cog Sci/Psychology

• Robert Benefield, Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of the Ascribed Characteristics of Spiritual Discernment: Higher Consciousness or Self-Deception? 
  
• Kristen Corman, ‘I’m not thinking of you.’ Poetic metaphor: intrinsic inhibited during extrinsic, cross-modal, hand-eye, ‘conscious’ sensory engagement: ‘losing the self’ while gazing at hand drawn, beloved faces. 
  
• Fernando de Pablos, Consciousness during dreaming: Is there anything more than an anomalous state? 
  
• Carl Flygt, Linguistic Determinism and the Technological Singularity 
  
• Ellen Fridland, Three Failed Arguments (Dretke, Fodor & Pylyshyn) 
  
• David Glanzer, Implementation of an Adaptive Resonance Network Model of Empathy 
  
• Anastasia Gorbunova, How to Lose Yourself in Yourself: Proto-, Meta-, and Self-Consciousness. 
  
• Frank Heile, Two Conscious Beings from Two Different Representational Loops 
  
• Ron Karr, Consciousness and Memory 
  
• Lyle Long, The Prospects for Creating Conscious Machines 
  
• Robert Mays, Phantom Limb "Touch" Suggests That A "Mind-Limb" Extends Beyond the Physical Body And Can Interact with Reality, Producing Physiological Sensations 
  
• Phil McClung, Understanding Psi and Non-Psi Dreams 
  
• David Murphy, "Consciousness and Emotions: Radical or Moderate Embodiment?" 
  
• David Saunders,  How the human brain generates human nature, language, ethics, morality, and the senses of value and meaning. 
  
• John Selden, Consciousness in Mathematical Reasoning 
  
• Meredith Tromble, Emergence and Collective Creativity 
  

P4: Physics/Biology

• Carlos Acosta, Organic Reasoning Systems 
  
• Amna Alfaki, Consciousness: New Definition 
  
• Michael E. Arth, U N I C E 
  
• Vadim Astakhov, Mind Uploading and Resurrection of Human Consciousness Is There a Place for Physics and Computer Science? 
  
• Adam Atkin , On Conscious Development of Mind  
  
• Nathan Batalion , Naturolism: Seeing organizing principles of life and consciousness at the depth core of nature – rather than what’s robotic/mechanical/mathematical. 
  
• James Beichler, The Historical Context of Consciousness Studies as a Research Tool 
  
• James Beran, Image-based Information About Consciousness: Choosing Models for Effective Diagnosis and Therapy 
  
• Matti Bergstrom, Tunneling - a Phenomenon in the Brain of an Observer of Physical Objects 
  
• Gerard Blommestijn, Two Meanings of "Unity of Consciousness" in Relation to Quantum Mechanics.  
  
• Robert Boyd, The SubQuantum Foundations for the Informational Essence of all Consciousness-Related Phenomena.  
  
• R. W. Boyer, The Top Down Consciousness-Mind-Matter Ontology 
  
• Steven Brown, Reentrant Emergence 
  
• Bruce Carruthers, A Clinical Medicine based on the Holistic Proprioceptive Nature of Symptoms 
  
• Katherine Creath, Systemic Properties of Biophotonic (ultra-weak photon) Emission in Biological Systems: Eevidence of Interactions with the Human Biofield 
  
• Albert Fonda, What's needed to move 'Toward a Science of Consciousness' 
  
• Lee Frank, Mystery of the Hemispheres: An Evolutionary Loop 
  
• Sanjay Ghosh, Mind Particles: See it by Physical Instruments.  
  
• Karen Gilbert, Communicating with the Consciousness of Cancer 
  
• Anatoly Goldstein, Modeling Extra-Sensory Perception Using Split-Complex Spacetime  
  
• Alex Hankey, Quantized Instability Fluctuations Satisfy David Chalmer's Conditions for Non-Reductive Models of Information Spaces of Consciousness 
  
• Syamala Hari, Eccles's Psychons Can Be Zero-Energy Tachyons 
  
• Christopher Holvenstot, Does the Brain Produce Conscious Experience or Merely Enhance and/or Articulate It?  
  
• Huping Hu, Concerning Spin as Mind-pixel: How Mind Interacts with the Brain through Electric Spin Effects 
  
• Perry Justin, A Grand Unified Theory of Consciousness? Why Understanding and Explaining Consciousness Will Inevitably Lead To One 
  
• Marianthe Karanikas, Mind-Body Medicine as Internal Persuasion: The Structural Coherence of Emotional Coloring and Phenomenal Tint 
  
• Kerk Kee, Toward a Bio-Cultural Model of Human Consciousness: Nineteen Propositions and an Interdisciplinary Framework  
  
• Werner Krieglstein, How to Feel and Act Like an Amoeba: Neo-psychism, Self-Organization, and Collective Orchestration  
  
• Walter Matreyek, The Cybernetics of Life/Consciousness 
  
• Monica Michalski, Mind, Movement and Health as Emergent Properties of Patterns in the Neural Net 
  
• Jim Nystrom, Universe as Computation, Modern Aether Theory, and the Funda-Mentalistic Mind 
  
• Aaron Pearl, Neuroethical Concerns Raised by Religious Experiences in Epilepsy Management 
  
• Kala Perkins, Resonant Emergent Identity: Choreography of the Cosmic Human 
  
• George Schoenfelder, Toward a Gene-Expressed Basis of Consciousness  
  
• Thomas Schumann, Quantum Theory, Reality, the Dream Metaphor and the Subjective Reduction of the Wave Function 
  
• Francis Schwanauer, Inference at the Mercy of the Selection of the Implying 
  
• Susan W. Schwartz, Colors of Healing: Spectral color as a non-local agent of transformation in localized human consciousness  
  
• Ron Shane, The Neurobiology of the Mind's Eye  
  
• Richard Shank, A Theory of Consciousness Based on the Concepts of Force Carrier Particles and Superposition, and Electromagnetic Fields Generated by Neural Networks 
  
• Richard Steiner, DNA: Consciousness to Unconsciousness Memory 
  
• Erick Von Schweber, Aspect-oriented quantum monism and the hard problem 
  
• Juliane C. Wilcke, Determining how best to study the evolutionary function of consciousness 
  

P5: Experiential

• Judith Blackstone, Realization Process: The Relational Potential of Nondual Awareness An Experiential Workshop 
  
• Whit Blauvelt, Sense Symmetry: A Method for Tuning Consciousness's Scope 
  
• Jeffrey Brooks, The States of Consciousness 
  
• Maureen Caudill,  Eliciting the Paranormal in the Lab: Making the Paranormal Normal 
  
• Jorge Gonçalves, How to Explain the Fringes of Consciousness? 
  
• Ronnie Hawkins, Crossing the Corpus Callosum: Clarifying Our Ontology, Redirecting Our Agency  
  
• David Holan, The Illusion of Control: A Dynamic Model for Psychotherapy 
  
• Reginald Humphreys, Hypnosis And Anthroposophical Medicine 
  
• Sharon Jones-Forrester, Descriptive Experience Sampling of Bulimia Nervosa: A Case Study Illustrating the Importance of Careful Examination of Phenomena  
  
• Peter Lloyd, Basic Conceptual Problems in Parapsychology 
  
• Olga Louchakova, Reconstitution of the Self During the Study of Advaita Vedanta (Traditional Indian Teachings of Non-Dual Consciousness): Phenomenological Investigations 
  
• Rick Roark, A Simple Description of Consciousness 
  
• Amanda Seipel, Observer Theories: The Next Step 
  
• Charles Shang, A Unified Biological Model of Meridian and Chakra Systems with Confirmed Predictions 
  

P6: Humanities

• Edouard Asseo, Theory of Consciousness Theory of Knowledge  
  
• Walter Cruttenden, Cycles in Consciousness - An Ancient View 
  
• Mathew Gendle, From the Spirit to the Synapse: Creating and Implementing a Unique Interdisciplinary Consciousness Studies Class for Undergraduates 
  
• Linda MacDonald Glenn, Consciousness, Cognitive liberty, and Culpability: An Examination of Constitutional Law Issues  
  
• Jeremy Horne, How Towards a Science of Consciousness Formed 
  
• Gerald Katzman, Strategies for Countering the Teaching of Hatred to Children 
  
• Oded Maimon, We show that the contradiction in consciousness definition by different schools of philosophies is a necessary condition for the unified concept of consciousness! We then present a unified definition. 
  
• Mark Moyers, The Philosophy of Immunization, which value do you choose as the "highest"? 
  
• Jordan Olischefski, Individual Differences in Video Game Play and Presence 
  
• Ana Rosa Richardson, Change in the energetic matter of my human body following the new order of my energy body, my dream body 
  
• Sylvain Rouanet, From care of the self to the care of others : an ethnologic inquiry of a Tai-chi-chuan school. 
  
• Stephen Schafer, The Psychecology Game I: Using story-based, Role Playing Games (RPGs) to capture veridical data on subliminal states of being (An interdisciplinary correlation) 
  
• Josiah Shindi, Visions as a special form of altered state of consciousness 

Wednesday, April 9

Art&Technology Exhibit 2 -    During Poster Session  1

René Stettler, Curator

0800-0830 PM, Margaret Dolinsky “Hello World (Illuminated Script)”

0830-0900PM,Ana Iribas Rudin “Psychosomatic Art: Consciousness Speaks in Flesh”

Thursday, April 10

8:30 am to 10:40 am

Plenary Session 5 - LEO RICH THEATRE

Is Consciousness Local or Global?

Rafael Malach Local and Global Models of Visual Perception

Naotsugu Tsuchiya Initial Non-Conscious Spike Activity and Later Neuronal Correlates of Consciousness in Monkey Area MT

Bernard Baars What's GLOBAL About Globalist Theories of Consciousness? Getting it Straight.

Thursday, April 10

11:10am to 12:35pm

Plenary Session 6 (Keynote) LEO RICH THEATRE

WOLF SINGER   Consciousness, a Dynamical State?

Afternoon free: Side-Trips (Optional)

Conference Dinner - Thursday evening
Desert Museum

(Optional-Reservations Required)

Friday, April 11    

8:30am to 10:40 am

Plenary Session 7 - LEO RICH THEATRE

First-Person Methodologies and the Richness of Consciousness

Eric Schwitzgebel Does Experience Outrun Attention? (And a Possible Second Demise of Consciousness Studies)

Chris Heavey The Five Most Frequent Phenomena of Inner Experience

Susanna Siegel Phenomenal Contrast and the High-level Contents of Consciousness

Friday, April 11 

11:10am to 12:35pm

Plenary Session 8 - LEO RICH THEATRE

Sub-Neural and Quantum Factors in Consciousness

Gustav Bernroider Hodgkin-Huxley Revisited: Quantum Transitions and Quantum Coherence in Ion Channel Neural Signaling

Stuart Hameroff The ‘Conscious Pilot’: Dendritic Synchrony Moves Through the Brain to Mediate Consciousness

Friday, April 11 

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Plenary Session 9 - LEO RICH THEATRE

Brain Imaging as Mind Reading Technologies

Frank Tong Decoding Visual Perception: From Brain Reading to Mind Reading

Adrian Owen Using fMRI to Detect Consciousness in the Absence of Behavioral Signs

Daniel Langleben fMRI Studies of Deception

Friday, April 11 

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm

Concurrent Sessions 15 - 21

C15: Theories of Consciousness                      TCC - MOHAVE

• 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                     TCC- MARICOPA

• 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                                       TCC - GREENLEE

• 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 
  
• Russell Hurlburt, Can Inner Experience Be Faithfully Described? 
  

C18: Unconscious States                                 HA - PALO VERDE

           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                                                    HA - BALLROOM EAST

         Chair: Gustav Bernoider

• 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                    HA - BALLROOM WEST

• 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: Technology                                             HA - STARLIGHT BALLROOM

• 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                        TCC - APACHE/GREENLEE

          Curator: Rene Stettler

• Margaret Dolinsky, Virtual Reality: Image Structure and Consciousness Organization 
  
• Ana Iribas Rudín “Psychosomatic Art: Consciousness Speaks in Flesh”
  
• Steven J. Barnes , NeuroFloat: Real-time Exploration of Brain Spaces 
  
• 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 

             Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday Evening

Friday, April 11 

7:00 pm to 10:00 pm

Poster Session 2   

P7: Philosophy

• J. Kenneth Arnette, Boundary Conditions for Theories of Consciousness: Satisfaction by a Dualistic Interactionist Theory 
  
• Sergio Basbaum, Perception, Language and Culture in a Semantic Turn: Consciousness as Meaning 
  
• Jesse Butler, Kinds of Introspection: A Pluralistic Model of First-Person Knowledge of Consciousness 
  
• Chien-Hui Chiu, The Brand New Physical World of Swamp-Mary 
  
• Peter Ells, Mental Causation 
  
• Stewart Erik, Consciousness Tuning 
  
• Diana Gasparian, Why the Mind is the Only Problem of the Mind-Body Problem?  
  
• Fairlamb Horace, Explaining the Explanatory Gap: Beyond Monism and Dualism 
  
• Shun-Pin Hsu, Can’t We Solve the Mind-Body Problem? 
  
• Hyo-eun Kim, Representational Content and the Knowledge Argument  
  
• Ying-Tung Lin, Objection to Quining Qualia 
  
• Ken Marton, Resolving The "Hard Problem" Within The Circuitry of an Individual's Brain: Binding The Phenomenal Qualities of Interiority and Exteriority  
  
• Alexander Matckevich, Some difficulties of naturalistic approach  
  
• John Morrison, Consciousness and Color Physicalism  
  
• Joel Parthemore, Concepts Within Consciousness: A Model of Concept Acquisition and Application as a Process of Layering and De-Layering 
  
• Tatiana Postnikova, Intentionality and Non-Intentionality of Consciousness 
  
• Sean M. Smith, Being a Non-Reductionist about Consciousness when Modal Arguments Fail: An examination of Thomas Metzinger's Dynamicist-Connectionist attack on Qualia and a Reply in Favour of Neutral Monism 
  
• Justin Sytsma, Two Conceptions of Subjective Experience 
  
• Keith Turausky, Heterophenomenology’s Linguistic Idealism 
  
• Orlin Vakarelov, General Situated Cognition  
  
• Laura Weed, Multiple Drafts or Anatman? Neuroscientific and Buddhist Conceptions of the Self and Language 
  
• Alexander Yakhnis, Why a Turing Machine Cannot Remote View? Alexander Yakhnis, PhD-ayakhnis@hotmail.com  
  
• Yuan-Chieh Yang, Externalism and the self. Does the self depend on representation? 
  
• Chen Yu-Jen, Transparency Explained 
  

P8: Neuroscience

• Eduard Alto, Constancy First; Then Details 
  
• Bruce Katz, Phenomenal Binding: Two Mechansims or One? 
  
• John Lin, Synchronized Oscillations as the Neural Correlate of Consciousness 
  
• Esther Vogt, Zero point energies, consciousness and the Casimir force on microtubules 
  

P9: Cog Sci/Psychology

• Peng Chien, The Solution to the Problem of the Time of Consciousness: What is Needed is “Time,” not “Representation” 
  
• Nivedita Gangopadhyay, Can Attention Be the Key Towards an Understanding of Perceptual Consciousness? 
  
• Jacob Hirsh, The Weight of Being: Psychological Perspectives on the Existential Moment 
  
• Dr. Gregory Holler, Relations of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Absorption, Imagery, Sexual Fantasy, Sexual Daydreaming, and Social Desirability to Sexual Satisfaction  
  
• Ling-Fong Kuo, The Mirror Test Can't Tell Us Whether Animals Have Self-Consciousness Or Not 
  
• Stefania Mereu, Unconscious Endogenous Orienting of Attention Reflects An Automatic Shift of Attention. 
  
• Gabriel Mograbi, Between the Spider's Net and the Working Theatre 
  
• Stephen Morgan, Do Emotional Cues Influence Shifts of Visual Spatial Attention? 
  
• Jack Sam, An Intertwinement of Time & Karma: Phenomenology of a High-Speed Racecar Crash  
  
• Richard Sieb, The Discrete Generation of Consciousness 
  
• Knud Thomsen, The Consumption Analysis Loop in the Ouroboros Model, Basis for the Allocation of Attention and for the Emergence of Consciousness  
  
• Julie Troyer, Troyer Level of Consciousness Inventory(TLOCI): Measuring the invisible.  
  

P10: Physics/Biology

• Marcus Abundis, A General Model of Human Consciousness (Global Cultural Evolution) 
  
• Azzam AlMosallami, The Comalogical Theory: The Philosophy of The New Relativity Theory Theory  
  
• Uzi Awret, What Could Possibly Count as a Physical Explanation of Consciousness? 
  
• Ann Baldwin, Relaxation and Mental Effort Self-Monitoring for Rehabilitation 
  
• Massimo and Manuele Bondì, Experimental Demonstration of the Pathogenesis of the Coma, Through the Unified Synaptic Channel Collapse. Physiological - Clinical and Quantum-Electrodynamics Considerations. 
  
• Michael Brill, The Relationship Between Unconscious Abandonment Issues and Mental, Emotional, and Physical Health 
  
• Steve Cousins, Natural Selection and the Design of Consciousness  
  
• Tony De Luca, A Systems Engineering Approach to Perception 
  
• Igor Dolgov, Broadening Inclusive Fitness Theory: The Evolution of Unreciprocated Altruism among Non-Kin Humans.  
  
• Raynal Dunlop, A Preliminary Approach to an Alternative Hypothesis of Reality and Consciousness. 
  
• Marcos Estellita Lins, Quantum Duality, Theory of Mind and Personality Assessment Applied to Social Meta-Diagnosis: The Case of Cognitive Mapping for Diagnosing the Safety Issue in Rio de Janeiro 
  
• Lorna Green, Consciousness and the Scheme of Things. A 'New Copernican Revolution.' 
  
• David Holmes, The Theory of Neurobioluminescence in the Evolution of Sensorium Consciousness -- A Synopsis of Psyche's Palace: How the Brain Generates the Light of the Soul 
  
• Adrian Klein, The SubQuantum Foundations for the Informational Essence of all Consciousness-Related Phenomena. 
  
• Daniel Krieglstein, Emotion: The Building Block of Panpsychism 
  
• Prasanna Kumar , The Interconnectedness of Consciousness and Activities Performed Explained by Quantum Physics 
  
• Aaron Levisohn, Road Rage: An Indicator of Evolutionary Augmentation 
  
• Michael Lipkind, Consciousness Ontogenesis: the Radical-Emergence-versus-Panpsychism Dilemma and its Solution by Means of an Irreducible Field Principle 
  
• Raymond Noack, Solving The “Human Problem”: The Frontal Feedback Model 
  
• Alan Oliver, The dynamics of imaginary energy states in the human hair shaft, modelled on the neurone in consciousness, as they relate to changes in health and disease. 
  
• Jean Ratte, Embryology and Vascular Correlates of Consciousness. From Quanta to Qualia, From Semiotics to Semantics. 
  
• Edward Ray, What If This Universe Were The Only One! 
  
• Alan Rosen, The Psychophysical Conversion of “Consciousness” Into Physical Reality. The Philosophical Difference Between the Metaphysics of Consciousness and the Physics of Physical Reality. 
  
• Vikas Shah, Does the brain implement some form of delay coordinate embedding? 
  
• Gao Shan, A quantum theory of consciousness 
  
• Sugiyama Shigeki, Primitive element transformed and reflected method in consciousness 
  
• Avtar Singh, A Universal Approach to the Problems of Consciousness & Mind 
  
• Paul Storey, Consciousness in Engineering Units 
  
• Gottfried Suessenbacher, “Phylogenetic” Amnesia - Precondition of Self-consciousness? 
  
• Sandgren Tim, Vortex based mathematics as a clue to understanding the zero point field? 
  
• Mike Vandeman, The Nature of Consciousness and the Meaning of Life 
  
• Ximena Velásquez, Quantum Brain or classic brain, a review 
  
• John Yates, Quantum Interrogation, the McTaggart A Series, and the Many Bubble Interpretation  
  

P11: Experiential

• Abdellatif Abujudeh, "Is Consciousness Distinct From Attention?"  
  
• Daniel Beal, A Boolean Algebra of Ego Mechanisms of Defense 
  
• Jorge Davila, Intentionality, the Peri-personal Space and the Psychotic Experience 
  
• Caroline Duthy, A Psychoanalytic Contribution to the Theory of Consciousness 
  
• Mary Flores, Measuring the Effects of Intentionality in Energy Practitioners on Extra Low Frequency Magnetic Fields 
  
• Mary Larrabee, Moving Consciousness: From Zen's Immediacy to Deleuze's Immanence 
  
• Roulette Smith, The ‘Really Hard Problem’ Becomes Even Harder – and More Interesting: Disambiguating Belief, Awareness, Reality, Experience and Neediness in Persons with Aberrant Common Sense  
  
• Thomas H. Tower, An Experiential Approach to Second Person Inter-Subjective Collaborative Inquiry: The Integral Game  
  
• Zoltan Veres, Intentionality, Attention and Consciousness 
  
• Laurence Victor, We are the Worlds, Coupling via Semiotic Structures : Reframing Reality for Survival  
  
• Burton Voorhees, Stairways to Heaven: The Cultural Construction of Enlightenment 
  

P12: Humanities

• Ana Eva Iribas-Rudín , Altered States of Consciousness and Visual Arts: Salvador Dalí, Henri Michaux and Antoni Tàpies 
• Alejandro Manuel Alcaraz Ramirez, Quantum Philosophy, A Social Approach 
  
• Jesse Bettinger, Framing a Philosophical, Cosmological, and Theological Anthropology of Consciousness (as seen by the Philosopher-Coach) 
  
• Sara Bizarro, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers 
  
• Greg Brack, Introducing Students in the Helping Sciences to Quantum Mechanics, Chaos/Complexity Theory, and Consciousness 
  
• Diane Gromala, The Visceral Register: Toward a Phenomenology of the "Second Brain" 
  
• Pamela Reeve, Evolution, Neuroplasticity, and the Beatific Vision  
  
• Carlos Risco Risco, Immortality versus resurrection: Xavier Zubiri´s final mistake 
  
• Richard Sorenson, Liminal Consciousness 

Friday, April 11 

Art&Technology Exhibit 3  - During Poster Session 2

René Stettler, Curator

0830-0900 PM, TingTing Chen / Jennifer Beck “Consciousness and Human Interface Technology”
0900-0930 PM, Gino Yu / Jose Rueda “Lucid 2.0”

10:00 pm to midnight (Leo Rich)

Consciousness Poetry Slam / Zombie Blues Talent Show

Saturday, April 12

8:30 to 10:40 am

Plenary Session 10

Anomalies of Consciousness

Rupert Sheldrake The Evolution of Telepathy

Panel: Dick Bierman, John Allen, Steven Barker

Saturday, April 12

11:10-12:35

Plenary Session 11

Psychedelics

Tom Ray Psychedelics and the Chemical Architecture of the Mind

Frank Echenhofer Ayahuasca and Meditation Exploratory Field Research

Saturday, April 12

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Plenary Session 12

Development of Consciousness

Alison Gopnik Why Babies Are More Conscious Than We Are

Phil Zelazo Does Consciousness Develop?

Sarah Akhter Exploring Inner Experience: An Expedition into Adolescent Consciousness

8:00 pm till....???

End of Consciousness Party

Cushing Street Bar and Grill

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