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Plenary Program
Tuesday April 4 Leo Rich Theater
Conference Opening 1:45 pm Plenary 1, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm The Neural correlate of consciousness - Chair: Susana Martinez-Conde Walter J. Freeman, UC Berkeley, "A field-theoretical approach to understanding consciousness" Ralph Freeman, UC Berkeley, "
"Neural-metabolic coupling in the central visual pathway"
Wednesday April 5 Leo Rich Theater
Plenary 2, 8:30 am to 10:40 am, Dream debate - Chair: David Chalmers Resolved:
Freud's dream theory is misguided and misleading: It should be abandoned Con: Mark Solms, Royal London School of Medicine
Plenary 3/Keynote, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm - Chair: Al Kaszniak Giulio Tononi, U Wisconsin, "An information integration theory of consciousness" Plenary 4, 2:00 pm to 4:10 pm Cosmology, biology and consciousness - Chair: Stuart Hameroff Paul Davies, Australian Centre for Astrobiology, "Advances in cosmology suggest a link between information, complexity and the age of the universe" Michael VL Bennett, Yeshiva University, "Brain wave oscillations implicated in higher neural functions are synchronized by primitive (electrical) connections between neurons".
Thursday April 6 Leo Rich Theater Plenary 5, 8:30 am to 10:40 am Meditation - Chair: Al Kaszniak John Dunne, Emory University, "The neuroscientific study of Tibetan contemplative practice: Methodological issues and details of practice" Antoine Lutz, University of Wisconsin, "Using meditation expertise to study brain neuroplasticity and the neural correlates of subjective experience" Marilyn Schlitz, Institute of noetic Sciences, "Contemplative mind and consciousness research: An integral perspective Plenary 6/Keynote, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm - Chair: David Chalmers Douglas Hofstadter "Strange loops, downward causation, distributed consciousness"
Thursday afternoon free Conference Banquet Thursday evening
Friday April 7 Leo Rich Theater Plenary 7, 8:30 am to 10:40 am Self representation - Chair: David Chalmers Uriah Kriegel, University of Arizona & University of Sydney, "The self-representational theory of consciousness" David Rosenthal, City University of New York-Graduate Center, "Consciousness and intrinsic higher-order content." Robert van Gulick, Syracuse University, "Rethinking the self-reflexive nature of consciousness" Plenary 8/Keynote, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm - Chair: Terry Horgan John Searle, UC Berkely, "Dualism revisited" Plenary 9. 2:00 pm to 4:10 Consciousness and chronic vegetative states - Chair: Steve Rapcsak Nicholas Schiff, "Neuroimaging of disorders of consciousness: challenges and insights into underlying brain mechanisms" Melanie Boly , University of Liege, Belgium, "Eyes wide open, brain wide shut : (un)consciousness in the vegetative state" Orlando Castejon, Zulia University, Venezuela, "Transmission electron microscopy of brain biopsies of patients with severe brain trauma"
Saturday April 8, Leo Rich Theater Plenary 10, 8:30 am to 10:40 am Visual fading - Chair: Steve Macknik Susana Martinez-Conde, Barrow Neurological Institute, "The role of fixational eye movements in visibility and visual awareness" Daniel Simons, University of Illinois, "Induced fading of visual scenes" Peter De Weerd, University of Maastricht, NL, " Perceptual filling-in: What the eye cannot see" Plenary 11/Keynote, 11:10 am to 12:30 pm - Chair: Stuart Hameroff Temple Grandin, Colorado State University, "I think in pictures instead of language" Plenary 12, 2:00 pm to 4:10 Virtual reality and representation - Chair: Uriah Kriegel Maria Sanchez-Vives, University of Madrid, "The use of virtual reality in the study of consciousness". Steven Lehar, Schepens Eye Institute, "The dimensions of visual experience: A quantitative analysis" Paavo Pylkkanen, University of Skovde, Sweden, "Explaining the phenomenal structure of consciousness in the implicate order framework"
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