TSC 2011

                                                                                                               STOCKHOLM

                                                                                                               AULA MAGNA 

Program Outline                       

TUESDAY  MAY 3

8:30 am to 10:40 am        PLENARY  1                                           

                                              Brain Electromagnetic Fields and Consciousness 

                                              David A. McCormick, Yale  - Endogenous Electric Fields Guide Cortical Network Activity

                                              Susan Pockett, Auckland - Electromagnetic Field Theory of Consciousness

                                              Johnjoe McFadden, Surrey - The Cemi Field Theory: Gestalt Information and the Meaning of Meaning

10:40 am to 11:10 am       Break  

11:10 am to 12:30 pm       PLENARY  2 

                                               Time and Consciousness I 

                                               Harald Atmanspacher, Freiberg - Temporal Nonlocality in Bistable Perception

                                              Sara Gonzalez Andino, Geneva - Backward Time Referral in the Amygdala of Primates

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm         Lunch                                      

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm           PLENARY 3

                                              Consciousness and Reality I        

                                              Deepak Chopra, Carlsbad - Vedic Approaches to Consciousness and Reality

                                              Leonard Mlodinow, Pasadena  - The Grand Design of our Universe

                                              Paola Zizzi, Padua - Consciousness in the Early Universe

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm          Concurrent Sessions  1-8      

C 1    Representation/HOT              GEO,  50-sal           

C 2    Knowledge/Hard Problem    GEO,  40-sal
C 3    Free Will/Libet                         GEO,  Allamn/Högbomssalne
C 4    Synesthesia                            AM,   Aulan
C 5    NCC I                                         SH,   E-10
C 6    Medicine I                                SH,   F-11
C 7    Quantum I                                GEO, 35-sal
C 8    Altered States                        AM, Bergsmannen 

6:30 pm                                 Welcome Reception             

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm             Art-Tech Exhibits                          

WEDNESDAY   MAY 4

8:30 am to 10:40 am         PLENARY  4

                                               Transcranial Therapies 

                                               Eric Wassermann, NIH - Transcranial Stimulation and Consciousness

                                               Allan Snyder, Sydney   -  Accessing Information Normally Beyond Conscious Awareness                            
                                               W. Jamie Tyler, Virginia Tech - Mechanical Waves and Consciousness

10:40 am to 11:10 am       Break                                     

11:10 pm - 12:30 pm          PLENARY 5  

                                                Neural Correlates of Consciousness I

                                                 Rafael Malach, Weizmann - Local Neuronal Ignitions and the Emergence of Perceptual Awareness

                                                 Dietmar Plenz, NIH  - Neuronal Avalanches, Coherence Potentials, and Cooperativity

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm          Lunch                                     

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm           PLENARY 6

                                               Consciousness and Reality II
                                               Menas Kafatos, Chapman  - Consciousness and The Universe
                                               Tarja Kallio-Tamminen, Helsinki - Quantum Physics and Eastern Philosophy
                                               Paavo Pylkkanen, Helsinki  - Bohmian View of Consciousness and Reality

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm            Concurrent Sessions  9-16  

C 9     Phenomenology/Content          SH,  C-6
C 10   Panpsychism                              SH,  B-5
C 11   Time                                              SH,  E-10
C 12   NCC I                                              SH,  D-8         
C 13   Medicine II                                   JH,  Reinholdsalen
C 14   Quantum II                                   SH,  F-11
C 15   Religion                                        AM, Bergsmannen
C 16   Experiential I                               AM, Aulan

6:35 pm - 10:00 pm            Poster Session                          

6:35 pm - 10:00 pm            Art-Tech Exhibit                         

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm            Concurrent Sessions 17-24      

C 17  Language/Reporting                SH, C-6
C 18  AI/Computationalism               AM, Aulan
C 19  tba                                                SH, B-5
C 20  Microtubules I                           JH, Reinholdsalen
C 21  Altered States II                        AM, Bergsmannen
C 22  Integrative Models I                 SH,  F-11
C 23  Experiential II:                           SH,  D-8
C 24  Eastern Approaches I             SH,  E-10

THURSDAY, MAY 5

8:30 am to 10:40 am                PLENARY  7

                                                      Varieties of Religious Experience

                                                      Mario Beauregard, Montreal - Neuroscience of Transcendent Experiences
                                                      Alexander Moreira-Almeida, Juiz De Fora -Spiritual Experiences and Mental Disorders

                                                      Padr. Paulo Roberto, Rio de Janeiro - Sacred Plants of Amazonia

10:40 am to 11:10 am             Break                                  

11:10 am - 12:30 pm               PLENARY  8

                                                     Time and Consciousness II

                                                     Dick Bierman, Amsterdam - Presentiment

                                                     Moran Cerf, NYU - Time Effects in Human Cortical Neuronal Firings

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm              Lunch                                     

2:00 - 4:10 pm                          PLENARY  9         

                                                    Quantum Biology I 

                                                    Luc Montagnier, Nobel Laureate, Paris -    DNA, Waves and Water

                                                    Giuseppe Vitiello, Salerno - DNA: On the Wave of Coherence

                                                    Gustav Bernroider/Johann Summhammer, Salzburg - Quantum Properties in Ion Channel Proteins

free afternoon

THURSDAY EVENING

CONFERENCE DINNER CRUISE - optional/ticket required

FRIDAY, May 6

8:30 am to 10:40 am              PLENARY  10

                                                    Microtubules

                                                    Jack Tuszynski, Alberta -   Information Processing Within Dendritic Cytoskeleton
                                                    Anirban Bandyopadhyay, NIMS - Quantum States in Microtubules and Topological Invariance

                                                    Rudolph E. Tanzi, Harvard - "The Amyloid Trap" Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease

10:40 am to 11:10 am            Break                                  

11:10am to 12:30 pm             PLENARY 11

                                                     Keynote   

                                                    Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford

                                                     Consciousness and Physical Law

12:30 pm to 2:00 pm                Lunch                                   

2:00 pm to 4:10 pm                  PLENARY 12  

                                                      Neural Correlates of Consciousness II

                                                      Germund Hesslow, Lund - The Inner World As Simulated Interaction With The Environment

                                                      Henrik Ehrsson, Karolinska - How We Come To Experience That We Own Our Body

                                                      Fredrik Ullén, Karolinska - The Psychological Flow Experience

4:30 pm to 6:35 pm                  Concurrent Sessions  25-32       

C 25   Materialism/Physicalism       SH,  E-10                                 
C 26   Self/Identity                               SH,  D-8 
C 27   NCC III                                         AM, Bergsmannen
C 28   Body Consciousness             AM, Aulan  
C 29   Biology/Microtubules II          SH, C-6
C 30   Experiential III                          SH, B-5
C 31   PSI/Altered States III              JH,  Reinholdsalen
C 32   Eastern Approaches II           SH,  F-11

6:35 pm - 10:00 pm                         Poster Session                                 

6:35 pm - 10:00 pm                         Art-Tech Exhibit                              

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm                        Concurrent Sessions  33-40       

C 33   Medicine III                                     SH,  E-10    
C 34   Embodiment                                  SH,  F-11
C 35   Integrative Models                       SH,  B-5
C 36   Experiential IV                               AM, Aulan 
C 37    Ontology/Panpsychism              SH,  D-8 
C 38   Mental Imagery                              AM, Bergsmannen
C 39   Physics/Integrative Models II     SH, C-6
C 40  Language II / Integr Models         JH, Reinholdsalen

10:00 pm - 12 midnight                     Poetry Slam/Talent Show                      

SATURDAY, MAY 7

8:30 am to 10:40 am                         Plenary 13   

                                                               Anesthesia and Consciousness

                                                             Nicholas Franks, London - Molecular Actions of Anesthetics

                                                             Anthony Hudetz, Milwaukee  - Anesthetics and Gamma Synchrony
                                                             Stuart Hameroff, UMC Arizona  - Meyer-Overton Meets Quantum Physics

11:10 to 1:20 pm                               Plenary 14

                                                              End-of-Life Brain Activity

                                                             Lakhmir S. Chawla, GWU - Surges of Electroencephalogram Activity at the Time of Death.

                                                             Peter Fenwick, London - Death and the Loosening of Consciousness

afternoon free

7:30pm - xxx?                                  End-of-Consciousness Party          

Building Locations and Rooms  FRESCATI CAMPUS, Stockholm University 

AM       Aula Magna       

JH       Juristernas Hus  (Law Student's House)   

SH       Sodra Huset   (South House)

GEO    Geovetenskapens Hus (Geo-Science Building)

PLENARY Photos

 FENWICK          PLENZ             VITIELLO        TUSZYNSKI     TANZI         BIERMAN        ZIZZI           EHRSSON      BANDYOPADHYAY

KAFATOS       POCKETT          PYLKKANEN  WASSERMANN   HESSLOW      BERNROIDER   MALACH     HAMEROFF    MCFADDEN 

  ULLÉN           MLODINOW   MCCORMICK    ANDINO     BEAUREGARD       ROBERTO       SNYDER            HUDETZ        ATMANSPACHER  

 KALLIO-            FRANKS           CHAWLA       SUMMHAMMER      CERF      TYLER          MOREIRA-ALMEIDA  

TAMMINEN

PLENARY

Tuesday May 3

Plenary 1, 8:30 am to 10:40 am

Brain Electromagnetic Fields and Consciousness 
McCormick D, Yale, Endogenous Electric Fields Guide Cortical Network Activity
Pockett S, Auckland,  Electromagnetic Field Theory of Consciousness: The Shape of Conscious  Fields
McFadden J, Surrey, The Continuous Electromagnetic Information (CEMI) Field Theory of Consciousness

Plenary 2, 11:10am to 12:30 pm

Time and Consciousness I 
Atmanspacher H, Freiberg, Temporal Nonlocality In Bistable Perception
Gonzalez-Andino S, Geneva, Backward Time Referral in the Amygdala of Primates

Plenary 3, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Consciousness and Reality I        

Chopra D,  The Chopra Foundation,  Vedic Approaches to Consciousness and Reality
Mlodinow L, Pasadena,  The Grand Design of Our Universe
Zizzi P, Padua, Consciousness In The Early Universe

Wednesday May 4

Plenary 4, 8:30 am to 10:40 am

Transcranial Therapies 
Wassermann E, NIH, Transcranial Stimulation and Consciousness
Snyder A, Sydney, Accessing Information Normally Beyond Conscious Awareness by Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation
Tyler WJ, Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute, Mechanical Waves and Consciousness

Plenary 5, 11:10am to 12:30 pm

Neural Correlates of Consciousness I
Malach R., Weizmann,   Local Neuronal Ignitions and the Emergence of Perceptual Awareness
Plenz D, NIH, Neuronal Avalanches, Coherence Potentials, and Cooperativity: Dynamical Aspects That Define Mammalian Cortex

Plenary 6, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Consciousness and Reality II
Kafatos M, Chapman, Consciousness and The Universe: Non-local, Entangled, Probabilistic and Complementary Reality
Kallio Tamminem K, Helsinki,  Quantum Physics and Eastern Philosophy
Pylkkanen P, Helsinki, Bohmian View of Consciousness and Reality

Thursday May 5

Plenary 7, 8:30 am to 10:40 am

Varieties of Religious Experience
Beauregard M, Montreal, Neuroscience of Transcendent Experiences

Moreira-Almeida, A., Juiz De Fora, Differential Diagnosis Between Spiritual Experiences and Mental Disorders

Roberto, Padr. Paulo, Rio de Janeiro,  Sacred Plants of Amazonia

Plenary 8, 11:10am to 12:30 pm

Time and Consciousness II
Bierman D, Amsterdam, Presentiment
Cerf M, NYU, Time Effects in Human Cortical Neuronal Firings

Plenary 9, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Quantum Biology 

Luc Montagnier, Nobel Laureate, The Transfer of Biological Information Through Electromagnetic Waves and Water.
Giuseppe Vitiello, Salerno, DNA: On the Wave of Coherence
Bernroider/Summhammer, Salzburg, Quantum Properties in Ion Channel Proteins

THURSDAY EVENING

CONFERENCE DINNER CRUISE

Friday May 6

Plenary 10, 8:30 am to 10:40 am

Microtubules
Tuszynski JA., Alberta,  Information Processing Within Dendritic Cytoskeleton
Bandyopadhyay, A , NIMS, Tsukuba,   Direct Experimental Evidence for Quantum States in Microtubules and Topological Invariance
Tanzi R , Harvard, "The Amyloid Trap" Hypothesis of Alzheimer's Disease

Plenary 11,  11:10am to 12:30 pm

Keynote   

Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University, Consciousness and Physical Law

Plenary 12, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm

Neural Correlates of Consciousness II
Hesslow G, Lund, The Inner World As Simulated Interaction With The Environment
Ehrsson H, Karolinska, Neural Correlates of Body Illusions
Ullen F, Karolinska, The Psychological Flow Experience: From Phenomenology to Biological Correlates

Saturday May 7

Plenary 13, 8:30 am to 10:40 am

Anesthesia and Consciousness
Hudetz A, Milwaukee, Anesthetics and Gamma Synchrony
Franks N,  London, Molecular Actions of Anesthetics
Hameroff S, Tucson, Meyer-Overton Meets Quantum Physics

Plenary 14, 11:10 to 1:20 pm

End-of-Life Brain Activity
Chawla L, GWU, Surges of Electroencephalogram Activity at the Time of Death. A Case Series.

Fenwick P. London, Death and the Loosening of Consciousness