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Presented by
The Center for Consciousness Studies
University of Arizona
COMPLETE SET OF PLENARY SESSIONS IN
BINDERS FOR $150
CONFERENCE CODE: TSC24
PLENARY SESSIONS
#001 PL1: WHAT ARE THE NEURAL
CORRELATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS? 2 Tapes for $20
· Stephen Macknik, · Dichoptic
Visual Masking and Visual Awareness
· Christof Koch, ·
A Neurobiological Framework for
Consciousness
· David Leopold, ·
Neural Correlates of Induced Visual
Suppression
#002 PL2: WHAT IS THE PHYSICAL BASIS OF
CONSCIOUSNESS? 2 Tapes for $20
· Jack Pettigrew, ·
Exploring
Consciousness Using Perceptual Rivalry, with a New Proposal Linking the
Physics and Biology of Gravity.
· David
Chalmers · The
Matrix as Metaphysics
#003 PL3: SYNESTHESIA AND NEURAL PLASTICITY:
IMPLICATIONS FOR A THEORY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 1 Tape for $12
· Ned Block, ·
Functionalism,
Physicalism and Neural Plasticity
· Alva
Noe, · What Does
Synesthesia Teach Us About the Neural Basis of Consciousness?
#004 PL4: HOW DO HALLUCINOGENS AFFECT
CONSCIOUSNESS? 2 Tapes for $20
· Franz
X. Vollenweider, · Brain
Mechanisms of Hallucinogens
· Thomas
Ray, · The Chemical
Architecture of the Human Mind: Probing Receptor Space with Psychedelics
· Olivia Carter ·
Hallucinogens and Consciousness
#005 PL5: IS CONSCIOUS WILL AN ILLUSION? 2 Tapes
for $20
· Daniel Wegner, ·
Conscious Will: The
Body’s Way of Knowing What the Mind is Doing
· Terry
Horgan, · Conscious
Will Is No Ilusion
· Roy
Baumeister, · Creativity,
Consciousness, and Free Will: Experimental Findings
#006 PL6: KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 Tape for $12
· Zoltan Torey, ·
Consciousness, the View from Within
#007 PL7: IS THERE ATTENTION OUTSIDE AWARENESS? 2
Tapes for $20
· Victor Lamme, ·
Separate Neural Definitions of Conscious
Vision and Attention; a Case for Phenomenal Awareness
· Ronald
Rensink, · The
Problem of Awareness and Attention: Not Enough Awareness of Attention &
Not Enough Attention to Awarenesss
· Guven
Guzeldere, · Attention
and the Phenomenal Character of Visual Perception
#008 PL8: KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 Tape for $12
· Steven Pinker, ·
Is Consciousness an
Evolutionary Adaptation?
#009 PL9: ETHICS AND THE BRAIN 2 Tapes for $20
· Martha Farah, ·
From the Decade of the Brain to the
Neuroscience Century: Neuroethical Issues in Our Future
· Joshua
Greene, · Cognitive
Conflict and Control in Moral Judgment
· Deborah
Denno, · A Mind to
Blame: Exploring the Link between Crime and Consciousness
#010 PL10: IS THERE METACOGNITION IN ANIMALS? 2
Tapes for $20
· Wendy Shields, ·
Standards of Evidence in the Examination of
Animal Metacognition
· Janet
Metcalfe, · Metacognition
and the Emergence of Self-Reflective Consciousness
· Peter
Carruthers, · Two
Models of Meta-Cognition
#011 PL11: KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1 Tape for $12
· Daniel Dennett, ·
Qualia Questioned: Once More With Feeling
#012 PL12: TENTH ANNIVERSARY SESSION: LOOKING BACK,
LOOKING FORWARD 1 Tape for $12
David Chalmers, Susan Blackmore, Stu Hameroff, Bernard Baars
CONCURRENT SESSIONS
#013 C1: ONTOLOGY OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2 Tapes for
$20
· Emmett Holman, ·
Transparency, Grain and the Russellian
Theory of Mind
· Mark Pestana, · A
Method By Which The Relational and Quantitative Features of Qualitative
Experience Can Be Made Evident To Subjective Awareness
· Leopold Stubenberg, ·
Qualia: Mental, Physical, or Neither
· Wade Savage, · A
Pluralist Solution to the Mind-Body Problem
· Gregg Rosenberg, ·
How General is the Concept of a Receptive
Field?
#014 C2: FOUNDATIONAL ISSUES IN THE SCIENCE OF
CONSCIOUSNESS 2 Tapes for $20
· Sara Waller, ·
Does the Lesion Method Produce
Better-Justified Inferences than Imaging Methods?
· Bill Faw, · Developing
a Multidimensional Model of Consciousness
· Erik Myin, · Synaesthesia:
a dynamic, sensorimotor alternative
· Noam Sagiv, · Open
Questions in Synesthesia Research
· Eric LaRock, · Why
Neural Mechanisms Fail to Explain the Unity of Visual Consciousness
#015 C5: NONLOCAL AND PARANORMAL EFFECTS 2 Tapes
for $20
· Gary Schwartz, ·
Contemporary Research Testing the Survival
of Consciousness Hypothesis: Evidence for the Brain as Being an
Antenna-Receiver for Mind
· Katherine Creath, ·
Measuring Effects of Intention on Plant
Leaves Using Biophoton Imaging: Evidential Entanglement between Humans and
Plants
· Nelson Abreu, · Methodology
for Investigating the Hypothesis of Anomalous Remote Perceptions as
Objective Phenomena
· Rainer Schneider,
· Willing and Nonlocal
Effects: Are They Connected
#016 C7: FIRST-PERSON APPROACHES 2 Tapes for $20
· Jack Petranker, ·
First-person Methodology without the First
Person: the Case of the Absent-Minded Self
· Anthony Freeman, ·
A Daniel Come to Judgement? Using Dennett to
Test the Limits of Revisioning Transpersonal Theory.
· Russell Hurlburt, ·
Bracketing Presuppositions in First- And
Second-Person Explorations of Inner Experience
· Christopher Heavey, ·
Exploring the Experience of Depression with
Descriptive Experience Sampling
· John Barresi, · From
"Nobody Nowhere" to "Somebody Somewhere": A case study
in the phenomenology of autism and of the discovery of the interpersonal
world.
#031 C6: SUBCELLULAR AND QUANTUM BRAIN PROCESSES
1 Tape for $12
· Jack Tuszynski, ·
The Dynamics of C-termini of Microtubules in
Dendrites: A possible clue for the role of neuronal cytoskeleton in the
functioning of the brain
· Andrea Fantasia, ·
Non-Local Correlation between Human Neural
Networks on Printed Circuit Board
· Nancy Woolf, ·
Microtubules in Consciousness and Cognition:
Could Transport of Receptors and mRNA be Involved?
#017 C8: ZOMBIES AND MATERIALISM 2 Tapes for $20
· Torin Alter, ·
On the Conditional Analysis of Phenomenal
Concepts
· Stephen Biggs, · An
Intuition System: What Zombies Teach Us
· Christian J. Onof, ·
An Inconsistency in Chalmers’s Property
Dualism
· Andrew Brook, · Zombies
and Imprisoned Minds
· Marco Giunti, · The
Physical Reductive Explainability of Phenomenal Consciousness and the
Logical Impossibility of Zombies
#018 C9: SELF-KNOWLEDGE AND INTROSPECTION 2 Tapes
for $20
· William Robinson, ·
Knowing Epiphenomena
· Eric Schwitzgebel, ·
What Is Introspection?
· John Bengson, · Introspection
and the Study of Consciousness: From Inner Perception to Attention
· Jerry Yang, · Proprietary
Nonepistemic Self-Awareness: A Naturalistic Account of Privileged Access
· Jessica Brown, · Discrimination
and Knowledge of One’s Own Thoughts.
#019 C12: MEDITATION AND CONSCIOUSNESS 2 Tapes
for $20
· Susan Blackmore, ·
Why Global Workspace Theory
cannot explain consciousness
· Olga Louchakova,
· Via Kundalini:
Intentionality of consciousness according to Shakta-Vedanta
· Reginald Humphreys, ·
Mind-body Synchronization: A novel
methodology for inducing a parasympathetic-dominant altered state of
consciousness using fractal video.
· Ramesh Manocha, · Sahaja
State and Therapeutic Consciousness: High Quality Empirical Evidence for a
New Definition of Meditation
· William Meyer, · The
Body’s Surface as a Multimedia Interface: Closed-Eyes Telehaptic
Communication Technology as a Tool for Consciousness Research.
#020 C14: ART AND CONSCIOUSNESS 2 Tapes for $20
· Jon Hanna, ·
Psychedelics, Altered Consciousness, and
Visionary Art
· Roy Ascott, · Technoetic
Networks: New Media Art and Mediated Mind
· John Lobell, · How
Culture Reveals Structures of Consciousness
· Bill Seeley, · Mental
Imagery and the Possible Neurological Underpinnings of Aesthetic
Disinterestedness
· Gregory Little,
· Exploring Conscious
Experience in Artistic Virtual Environments
#032 C11: COGNITIVE AND COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 1
Tape for $12
· Owen Holland, ·
Towards a Technology of Consciousness
· Garry Briscoe, ·
A Neural Model of Cognition and
Consciousness
· Marius Dumitru, ·
MentalOdeon. A Quasi-Pictorial Theory of the
Mental Representational Medium
#021 C15: REDUCTION AND THE EXPLANATORY GAP 2
Tapes for $20
· Rebecca Copenhaver, ·
Is Reid A Mysterian?
· Steven Horst, · Beyond
Reduction: Post-Reductionist Philosophy of Science and its Implications for
the Explanatory Gap
· Andrew Bailey, · Multiple
Realizability, Qualia and Natural Kinds.
· Benjamin Whiting, ·
Consciousness and Scientific Essentialism:
How Anti-physicalist Intuitions Answer the Hard Problem
· Josh Weisberg, · Reduction,
Entailment, and Analysis: Some Worries for the Chalmers/Jackson Model of
Reductive Explanation
#022 C16: REPRESENTATIONALISM AND HIGHER-ORDER
THOUGHT 2 Tapes for $20
· Uriah Kriegel, ·
The Same-Order Monitoring Theory of
Consciousness
· Rocco Gennaro, · Higher-Order
Thoughts and Misrepresentation
· Paula Droege, · Does
Representationalism Entail that the Reality of Consciousness is Virtual?
· Nigel Thomas, · Experience
(and Mental Representation) Outside the Brain
· Brad Thompson, · Representationalism
and the Argument from Hallucination
#033 C19: HALLUCINOGENS AND CONSCIOUSNESS 2 Tapes
for $20
· Marcelo Mercante, ·
Consciousness, Involuntary Mental Imagery,
and Healing: The Role of Visions Experienced During the Trance Induced By
the Use of Ayahuasca
· Olivia Carter, · Probing
the Pharmacological Basis of Binocular Rivalry with the Hallucinogenic
5-Ht1a/2a Agonist Psilocybin.
· Karl, L.R. Jansen, ·
‘What Can Ketamine Teach Us About Ordinary
and Altered States of Consciousness?
· Michael
Winkelman, · The
Nature of Consciousness from Perspectives of Psychoactive Drugs:
Psychointegration
· Todd Bresnick, · The
Impact of Ayahuasca Ingestion on Shifts in Spatial and Temporal Phenomenal
Experiences Associated With Fringe Consciousness
#023 C20: THE EVOLUTION OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2 Tapes
for $20
· Charles Whitehead, ·
Evolution of the Human Brain
· Harry T. Hunt, · Synesthesia
as the ‘Mechanism’ for Thought and Language: the Wider Context
· Jerome Elbert, · Functional
Awareness and Its Evolution from Systems with Inflexible Responses
· Robert Arp, · Segregation
and Integration: The Evolutionary Basis of Consciousness
· Dirk De Ridder, · An
Evolutionary Neurobiological Approach to Consciousness
#024 C21: CONSCIOUS WILL AND ACTION 2
Tapes for $20
· Jordan Peterson, ·
Anticipatory Consciousness,
Libet’s Veto and a Close-Enough Theory of Free Will
· Jonas Kaplan,
· Does Perceived Time
of Awareness Depend on the Duration of an Action’s Sensory Consequence?
· Ralph Ellis, · Conscious
Will Is Part of Moral Agency Even Granting Determinism: A Reply to Dennett
and Wegner with Help from Jeannerod
· Natika Newton, · How
to Carry Three Things with Only One Hand: An example and discussion of
intentional motor representation
PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
#025 What scientists have learned about consciousness and the brain: A
decade of remarkable evidence
Bernard Baars & Katharine McGovern 3 Tapes for $25
New brain imaging methods are providing glimpses into the conscious living
brain that could only be imagined a decade ago. Conscious sensory functions show
visibly different brain events from physically identical unconscious ones.
Unconscious states ranging from sleep to epilepsy show marked decrements in
brain metabolism; conscious resting states are more active metabolically than
mental tasks that require focused attention. Even at the level of single
neurons, we can tell the distinctive effects of conscious input. Functional
brain imaging is showing recognizably "mental" patterns of activity,
in mental effort, emotions, pain, inner speech, visual imagery, mental conflict,
memory, and self. What’s going on? Some current theories are trying to wrestle
with a new flood of facts. A neo-Jamesian science may be starting to emerge. The
subjective side of life that has been taboo since Pavlov and Skinner is back in
the scientific headlines. The workshop will include exercises designed to sample
some of the conscious and unconscious events that have been studied.
#026 Observing the Mind, Part 1: Basic Training in Skillful Means
Charles T. Tart 4 Tapes for $30
In the nineteenth century, psychologists failed to develop a science of the
mind using introspective data. A major reason for failure is that ordinary mind
has little skill at observing itself, as well as being very active and
"noisy." Further, our "normal" state of consensus
consciousness is like a virtual reality, generating apparently real experiences
based on cultural conditioning and often distorting perceptions to support these
scenarios. This morning workshop will introduce participants to two basic
techniques for calming the mind (concentrative meditation) and developing deeper
understanding of the mind (insight meditation, vipassana). The emphasis will be
on learning actual skills, rather than just talking about them. These skills can
make us better scientists and therapists, improve our ability to obtain data
about consciousness, and can apply to personal efforts such as stress reduction,
clearer reality contact, and improving the quality of life. Prior reading of
Tart’s books "Waking Up" and "Living the Mindful Life"
and/or his recent "Mind Science: Meditation Training for Practical
People" (based on an earlier version of this workshop) is recommended but
not required.
Observing the Mind, Part 2: Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Developing mindfulness skills under the restricted and protected conditions
of formal meditation practice is very useful, but these skills usually take some
time to generalize into ordinary life conditions. Yet ordinary life is where our
mindlessness too often gets us into trouble! This workshop will introduce
students to a practice of "self-remembering," somewhat along the lines
originally taught by G. I. Gurdjieff, an early pioneer in adapting Eastern
mindfulness development skills to Western people. The mindfulness and presence
brought about by self-remembering helps us gain more accurate knowledge of our
own and others’ mental, emotional and physical functioning, thus contributing
to the development of a science of mind as well as personal and
"spiritual" growth. Taking the morning workshop on basic mindfulness
skills or having attended a previous workshop by Tart on this is a prerequisite
for taking this afternoon workshop.
#028 Philosophical Theories of Consciousness
Uriah Kriegel 3 Tapes for $25
Philosophical theories of consciousness are concerned with the ontology of
consciousness: they are concerned not just with how consciousness works, but
also with what consciousness is. In this workshop, we shall survey six or seven
leading theories of consciousness to be found in the current philosophical
literature: the New Mysterianism, Naturalistic Dualism, the Representational
Theory of Consciousness, Higher-Order Thought theory, Higher-Order Perception
Theory, and the Same-Order Monitoring theory. After the main tenets of each
approach will be presented, we shall discuss the arguments for and against the
theory in question.
#029 What does science know about extra-ordinary states of
consciousness?
Katharine McGovern, Bernard Baars, Stanley Krippner, and Frank Echelhofer
3 Tapes for $25
Extra-ordinary experiences have been reported since the dawn of written
thought and in many cultures around the world. Yet scientifically we know little
with certainty. For decades, psychologists have tried to discover the effects of
meditation methods, but it is very difficult to get answers that are not shaped
by the attitudes and expectations of practitioners. Brain imaging provides a new
look at extra-ordinary states, in the case of advanced Tibetan monks, TM
practitioners, Buddhist mindfulness practitioners, Christian mysticism, hypnotic
states and absorption, altered identity states, lucid dreams, and drug
experiences. We touch on subjects like Shamanic practices and states of
consciousness, psychotropic drugs like Ayahuasca, and spontaneous mystical
experiences. After twenty years of scientific studies, small islands of
understanding may be emerging. The Workshop will include demonstrations and
movies of some of the extra-ordinary states that have been studied.
#030 Quantum Approaches to Consciousness
Paavo Pylkannen, Stuart Hameroff, Jack Tuszynski 3 Tapes for
$25
Quantum physics provides a new scientific world-view and suggests an
approach to biology and neuroscience necessary for the understanding of
cognition and conscious experience. A number of recent models (e.g. Bohm, Stapp,
Penrose-Hameroff) suggest that the transition between the pre-conscious and the
conscious is some form of transition between the quantum and classical worlds.
In this workshop philosopher Paavo Pylkkanen will provide a generally accessible
overview of quantum mechanics and how it may relate to conscious experience;
anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff will discuss the neuroscientific aspects of the
Penrose-Hameroff model of quantum computation in brain microtubules; and
physicist Jack Tuszynski will discuss the biophysical and biochemical properties
of microtubules which may enable quantum computation in the human brain at
physiological conditions
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