Toward a Science of Consciousness 2008  

                                             PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP PROGRAM

                                          Tucson Convention Center and Hotel Arizona

                                                                            Rooms to be announced

                                                        Session I   Monday morning April 7th,      (9:00 am - 1:00 pm)

                                                        Session 2  Monday afternoon April 7th    (2:00 pm - 6:00 pm)                                  

                                                        Session 3  Tuesday morning April 8th      (9:00 am - 1:00 pm)

                    Fees are $50.00 per workshop; Registration/payment will open soon

                                              Workshop Descriptions/Abstracts Click Here

                                                                                                 Schedule Below

                                                   Session 1,  Monday April 7,   (9:00 am to 1:00 pm)

   Consciousness and Self-Consciousness in Eastern and Western Philosophy

     Paula Droege, Keya Maitra

   What’s Globalist About Globalist Theories of Consciousness? Getting It Straight

       Bernard Baars, Katharine McGovern

   Use of Mathematical Physics to Model Neural Correlates of Brain Activity in Perception

     and Consciousness -    Part  I    (Part II- Monday afternoon is included in Registration for Part  I )

       Walter Freeman, Robert Kozma, Giuseppe Vitiello, Tian Yu Cao

   New Directions in Brain Research:  Everything You Need to Know About the 

    Social  Brain and its Implications for Consciousness
       David Craik, Charles Whitehead  

  Quantum Mechanisms in Neurons and Brain

     Stuart Hameroff, Gustav Bernroider, Daniel Sheehan & Others

                                                   Session 2,  Monday April 7,  (2:00 pm to 6:00 pm)

   Philosophical Theories of Consciousness

       Uriah Kriegel

   Fundamentals of Conscious Vision

       Susana Martinez-Conde, Stephen Macknik

   Use of Mathematical Physics to Model Neural Correlates of Brain Activity in Perception

     and Consciousness - Part 2  -  (Part 2   - Monday afternoon is included in Registration for Part I )

        Walter Freeman, Robert Kozma, Giuseppe Vitiello, Tian Yu Cao

   Real-Time Consciousness, Volition and Action - A Tribute to Ben Libet  - Part  I 

        (Part  2 - Tuesday morning included in registration for Part I )

        Lynn Nadel, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & others

  Games Brains Play: Neurological Disturbances of Self and Identity

       Todd Feinberg

  Lucid Dreaming

       Stephen LaBerge 

   Reappraising Julian Jaynes’s Theory of Consciousness and Bicameral Mind -    

     30 Years of  New Evidence

     Brian J. McVeigh, Marcel Kuijsten

                                  Session 3, Tuesday April 8,  (9:00 am to 1:00 pm)

   The Unity of Consciousness

       Timothy Bayne

   Can Inner Experience Be Faithfully Described?

        Russell Hurlburt, Eric Schwitzgebel

   Panpsychism: A Spectrum of Views

       David Skrbina, Stephen Deiss, Werner Kriegelstein, Jonathan Powell & others

   The Relationship Between Top-Down Attention and Consciousness

       Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Christof Koch

   Real-Time Consciousness, Volition and Action -  A Tribute to Ben Libet - Part 2 

         (included in registration for Part I )

       Lynn Nadel, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & others

   How Do You Feel? The Neuroanatomical Basis for Human Awareness of Interoceptive

     Feelings From the Body

      Bud Craig

   Ayahuasca and Meditation Exploratory Field Research

        Frank Echenhofer

   Transformations of Consciousness

        Marilyn Schlitz, Cassandra Vieten

  Meditation, Orgasm, Higher Consciousness: The Common Link

       Kleopatra Ormos