Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011 Brain, Mind and Reality May 2-8, 2011 Aula Magna Hall Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden http://consciousness.arizona.edu/TSC2011AnnouncCALLforABSTRACTS.htm
Toward a Science of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Held annually since 1994, the conference is organized by the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011 will be held at Stockholm University, Aula Magna Hall, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2-8, 2011. Nine recent developments related to the understanding of consciousness will be addressed: 1) Electromagnetic fields and massively coherent neuronal activities correlate with consciousness in the brain 2) Transcranial therapies aimed at brain fields and neuronal targets promise utility in various mental disorders 3) Neuronal connection maps enable computer simulations of brain ! functions, but are axonal and/or dendritic processes! necessa ry/sufficient for consciousness? 4) Anesthetic gases selectively erase consciousness and block coherent gamma synchrony EEG acting in a distributed array of dendritic proteins 5) Warm temperature biological quantum coherence and ballistic conduction in microtubules have rejuvenated quantum approaches to consciousness 6) Physics and cosmology are approaching the nature of reality, time and the place of consciousness in the universe 7) Libet backward time referral of subjective experience is now observed in mainstream neuroscience, perhaps accounted for by quantum physics 8) Surprising end-of-life coherent brain activity suggests a physiological correlate for so-called near death experiences 9) Eastern philosophy and secular spirituality accommodate quantum physics and cosmology Speakers (preliminary list) Anirban Bandyopadh! yay Dick Bierman Moran Cerf Lakhmir Chawla Deepak Chopra Nicholas Franks Stuart Hameroff Germund Hesslow Anthony Hudetz Tarja Kallio-Tamminen Menas Kafatos Johnjoe MacFadden Rafi Malach David McCormick Leonard Mlodinow Sue Pockett Paavo Pylkkanen Allan Snyder Jack Tuszynski W. Jamie Tyler Pim Von Lommel Eric Wasserman and others Special Pre-Conference Workshop Deepak Chopra Vedic approaches to consciousness Monday May 2, 2011 Sessions, Themes and Speakers 1) Brain fields and coherence: Evidence and theory suggest brain electromagnetic fields and large scale coherent potentials, ignitions and avalanches correlate with consciousness and feed! back on neuronal activities, bolstering longstanding electro magnetic field theories of consciousness. David McCormick, Yale, Brain electric field feedback Johnjoe McFadden, Surrey, Electromagnetic field theory of consciousness Sue Pockett, Auckland, E-M field theory of consciousness 2) Transcranial therapy of mental states: New therapeutic modalities based on brain stimulation aimed at conscious mental disorders include transcranial electric and magnetic fields and ultrasound vibrations. Mechanisms and utility in relation to consciousness and memory will be discussed. Allan Snyder, Sydney, Transcranial Electric fields for memory enhancement W. Jamie Tyler, Arizona State, Transcranial ultrasound for mental disorders Eric Wasserman, NIH, Transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression 3) Neuronal computation and brain simulation: What systems, levels and specific brain activities are critical for consciousness: axonal firings, dendritic synchrony, macroscopic fields, complexity, intraneuronal processes, quantum states? Will mapping the brain explain consciousness? Germund Hesslow, Lund, Complex spike timing Rafi Malach, Weizmann Institute, Neuronal ignitions 4) Anesthesia and consciousness: Anesthetic gases selectively erase consciousness and block high frequency gamma synchrony EEG while sparing non-conscious brain functions, acting by weak quantum forces in a distributed array of post-synaptic proteins Nicholas Franks, Imperial College London, Anesthetic sites of action Stuart Hameroff, Arizona, Hydrophobic quantum pockets in dendritic proteins Anthony Hudetz, MC Wisconsin, Anesthetics and gamma synchrony 5) Quantum biology: The role of quantum phy! sics in consciousness has been discounted by the ass! umption that the biological brain is too warm and wet. But quantum coherence, entanglement and ballistic conductance have now been recognized in warm photosynthesis, DNA and microtubules. Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Tsukuba, Ballistic conductance in microtubules Jack Tuszynski, Alberta, Microtubule information processing capabilities 6) Consciousness, reality and the universe: Does the conscious observer collapse the wave function? Is consciousness an emergent property of complex computation, or irreducible and intrinsically related to spacetime geometry? How did the universe arise from nothingness? What is entanglement? Menas Kafatos, Chapman University, The holographic universe Leonard Mlodinow, CalTech, Grand design (with Stephen Hawking) Paavo Pylkkanen, Helsinki, Bohm and the quantum universe 7) Time, prec! ognition and consciousness: The Libet experiments and parapsychology have long suggested backward time referral of subjective conscious experience of hundreds of milliseconds in the brain. Now such effects are seen in mainstream neuroscience. Can they be explained through quantum physics? Dick Bierman, Amsterdam, Pre-sentiment Moran Cerf, NYU/UCLA, Pre-cognition in human brain neurons? 9) End-of-life brain activity: Recent clinical studies report a surge of coherent, high frequency EEG at the time of human death, when neuronal metabolic supplies are depleted. Historically, nearly all civilizations have reported so-called near death experiences with remarkably consistent phenomenology. Have brain monitors captured the correlate of near death experiences? Lakhmir Chawla, George Washington, End-of-life br! ain activity Pim von Lommel, Arnhem, Near death expe! riences< /div> 9) Eastern philosophy, quantum physics and cosmology. Buddhism and Vedanta have much in common with quantum physics and cosmology. Is consciousness inherent in the universe? Deepak Chopra, Chopra Center, Vedic approach to consciousness Tarja Kallio-Tamminen, Helsinki, Quantum physics and Eastern philosophy In addition to Keynote and Plenary talks, the conference will feature Pre-Conference Workshops, Concurrent Talks, Poster Sessions, Art/Tech Demos, Social Events and Side Trips in the Stockholm tradition. *Special Pre-Conference Workshop* Deepak Chopra - Vedic approaches to consciousness Monday May 2, 2011 TSC Stockholm 2011 Conference Abstract System will be available via the CCS website after September 20. All Abstracts must be submitt! ed via the online system. Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference program book and posted online. Schedule of Deadlines: Abstracts Due November 15 Decisions December 20 Registration January 5 Final Edits February 15 Pre-Conference Workshop Proposals: Proposals (500 words or less) should be sent to: [email protected] no later than October 25 (notifications by November 15) Workshops will be held in 4 hour sessions on Sunday May 1 and Monday May 2 Sponsors Perfjell Wellness Center Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona Mind Event SA Chopra Foundation Agora for Biosystems Organi! zing Committee Stuart Hameroff (University of Arizon! a) Paavo Pylkkanen (University of Helsinki) Christer Perfjell (Perfjell Wellness Center, Mind Event SA) Deepak Chopra (Chopra Center) Adrian Parker (University of Gothenburg) Hans Liljenstrom (Stockholm University, Agora for Biosystems) Annekatrine Puhle (University of Gothenburg) Abi Behar-Montefiore (University of Arizona) Arlene 'Abi' Behar-Montefiore | Manager Center for Consciousness Studies c/o Dept. of Anesthesiology University Medical Center POB 245114 Tucson, AZ 85724-5114 USA Office/DL 520-621-9317 | Cell 520-444-2813 | Fax: 520-626-5596 [email protected] | www.consciousness.arizona.edu ==== Paul Brown - based in OZ April to November 2010 mailto:[email protected] == http://www.paul-brown.com OZ Landline +61 (0)7 3391 0094 == USA fax +1 309 216 9900 OZ Mobile +61 (0)419 72 74 85 == Skype paul-g-brown ==== Synapse Artist-in-Residence - Deakin University http://www.deakin.edu.au/itri/cisr/projects/hear.php Honorary Visiting Professor - Sussex University http://www.cogs.susx.ac.uk/ccnr/research/creativity.html ====
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