"TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS"
Sponsored by The Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona
April 8 - 15, 2000  *  Tucson, Arizona

SET OF ALL PLENARY SESSIONS (#'s 001-015) FOR $175
SET OF ALL REGULAR CONFERENCE SESSIONS (#'s 001-041) FOR $500

CONFERENCE CODE: TSC20

001 NEUROBIOLOGICAL MODELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS  1  $10.00
        Gerald Edelman, Consciousness and complexity
        John Taylor, Bringing neuroscience to consciousness
        John O’Keefe, Is hippocampal theta the neural correlate of consciousness?

002 WHAT CAN AN ACHROMAT KNOW ABOUT COLOR EXPERIENCE?  1  $10.00
        Knut Nordby, What is this you call color? What a completely colorblind person can know about color
        Kathleen Akins, More than mere coloring

003 FIRST-PERSON METHODOLOGIES  2  $18.00
        Russell Hurlburt, Denizens of the phenom
        B. Alan Wallace, The refinement and epistemic uses of introspection in Tibetan Buddhism
        Evan Thompson, Beyond the first person: Intersubjectivity and phenomenological methods

004 IS VISUAL CONSCIOUSNESS A GRAND ILLUSION?  2  $18.00
        Kevin O’Regan, Change blindness and the visual world as an outside memory
        Arien Mack, Sighted blindness: The story of inattentional blindness
        Jeremy Wolfe, Post-attentive vision and the illusion of perception

005 AYAHUASCA AND CONSCIOUSNESS  1  $10.00
        Luis Eduardo Luna, The varieties of the Ayahuasca experience: A multicultural phenomenological exploration
        Benny Shanon, The cognitive-psychological study of Ayahuasca

006 DOES CONSCIOUSNESS REQUIRE SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS?  2  $18.00
        Robert van Gulick, Implicit self-understanding and the problem of phenomenal consciousness
        Susan Blackmore, Dismantling the selfplex: Meme machines and the nature of consciousness
        Susan Hurley, Animal action: Self-consciousness without conceptual abilities?

007 IS NEURAL SYNCHRONY THE KEY TO CONSCIOUSNESS?  2  $18.00
        Andreas Engel, Temporal binding and the neural correlates of consciousness
        Christoph von der Malsburg, The unity of consciousness: Binding and the integration of subsystems
        Francisco Varela, Neural synchrony and the living present
        Keith Sutherland (discussant)

008 DISORDERS OF FACIAL CONSCIOUSNESS  1  $10.00
        Bill Choisser, A world without faces: A prosopagnosic’s perspective
        Morris Moscovitch, Is face recognition special? Clues from single case studies of people with different types of disorders.

009 WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CONSCIOUSNESS AND VOLITION?  2  $18.00
        Daniel Wegner, Why consciousness thinks it wills what the mind and brain do
        John Searle, Consciousness and free action 
        Chris Frith, The control of action and the experience of agency

010 SYNAESTHESIA  1  $10.00
        Peter Grossenbacher, Individual differences in the conscious experience of synesthesia
        Jason Mattingley, Conscious and unconscious information processing in colour-graphemic synaesthesia

011 VERBAL REPORTS AS A GUIDE TO CONSCIOUSNESS  2  $18.00
        Lawrence Weiskrantz, Commentaries, psychophysics, and blindsight: Beta late, if ever
        Jonathan Schooler, Consciousness, meta-consciousness, and the role of self-report
        Adam Zeman, The problem of unreportable consciousness

012 IS QUANTUM COMPUTATION RELEVANT TO CONSCIOUSNESS?  2  $18.00
        Gerard Milburn, Quantum computation and synthetic reality
        David Albert, Mental life and physical laws
        Stuart Hameroff, Quantum computation in the brain: Decoherence and biological feasibility 

013 MEDITATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS  1  $10.00
        Shinzen Young, Applications of mindfulness meditation in the study of human consciousness 
        David Schnyer, Attentional changes in long-term meditators: A cognitive neuroscience perspective

014 NEURAL CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUS VISION AND IMAGERY  2  $18.00
        Stephen Kosslyn, Visual consciousness in the brain
        Nancy Kanwisher, Neural correlates of changes in perceptual awareness in the absence of changes in the stimulus
        Ihtzak Fried, Mona Lisa and the single neuron: Recording from the human brain

015 CONSCIOUSNESS AT THE MILLENNIUM: WHERE ARE WE NOW, AND WHERE ARE WE GOING?  2  $18.00
        (Speakers and panelists to include: Baars, Chalmers, Koch, Schlitz, Varela, Weiskrantz, and others.)

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