SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS WEB SYSTEM

Plenary Report (40)

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PL1: Time and Consciousness

TUES Sept 15, 2020 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am at ONLINE

The Brain is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience of Time Dean V Buonoamo (Brain Research Institute, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA ) [131]

The Awareness of the Passage of Time Sylvie Droit-Volet (Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, CNRS, Universite Clermont Auvergne, CNRS, Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand France) [172]

The Relation Between Physical Time and Consciousness Carlo Rovelli (Centre de Physique Theorique de Luminy, Universite de Aix-Marseille, Marseille, France) [223]

PL2: Reality / Illusion

TUES Sept 15, 2020 -11:10 am - 12:30 pm at ONLINE

Spacetime is Doomed: Implications for the Hard Problem of Consciousness Donald Hoffman (Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA ) [86]
The Case Against Consciousness Keith Frankish (Adjunct Professor, The Brain and Mind Program, The University of Crete, Honorary Reader In Philosophy, The University of Sheffield, UK, Sheffield UK and Heraklion, Cr, Greece) [56]

PL3: Psychedelic Science

TUES Sept 15, 2020 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm at ONLINE

MDMA targets an evolutionarily ancient mechanisms and unlocks a critical period for social behavior. Gul Dolen (Dept. of Neuroscience, Brain Science Institute, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD ) [151]
Psilocybin Analogs and Neurogenesis Paul Stamets (mycologist, medical researcher and entrepreneur, Olympia, WA ) [160]
Mapping immersive states of consciousness: DMT and the human brain Christopher Timmermann-Slater (Centre for Psychedelic Research, Department of Medicine, Centre for Psychiatry, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom) [161]
Neurobiology of antidepressant action: Cellular and molecular aspects pertinent to the antidepressant effects of dissociative anesthetics and psychedelics. Mark Rasenick (Physiology & Biophysics, U. Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL ) [158]

PL4: Vibrations, Resonance and Consciousness

WED Sept 16, 2020 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am at ONLINE

Harmonics as a Principle of Brain Function Selen Atasoy (Center for Brain and Cognition, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom) [112]
The easy part of the Hard Problem: A resonance theory of consciousness Tam Hunt (Santa Barbara, CA ) [114]

Nested NOWs Jonathan W. Schooler (Department of Psychology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA ) [259]

Music, Resonance, Consciousness Lawrence Zbikowski (Department of Music, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL ) [325]

PL5: Enhancing Consciousness with Brain Stimulation

WED Sept 16, 2020 - 11:10 am - 12:30 pm at ONLINE

A Novel Research Direction for Contemplative Neuroscience with Sonication Enhanced Mindfulness Acquisition Jay Sanguinetti , Shinzen Young (Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ ) [148]
Focused Ultrasound and Research on Consciousness Alexander Bystritsky (Psychiatry, UCLA, Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, Los Angeles, CA ) [113]

PL6: Psychedelic Experience

WED Sept 16, 2020 - 2:00 pm - 4:10 pm at ONLINE

After The Revolution..Is There A Future For Natural Psychedelics? Dennis McKenna (McKenna Academy of Natural Philosophy, Abbotsford, BC Canada) [156]
Illusions of self and consciousness explored with DMT Susan Blackmore (Psychology, University of Plymouth, Ermington, Devon United Kingdom) [150]
Animism, the use of psychedelic plants and fungi by Amerindian populations, its rejection, and the Anthropocene. Cultural-historical considerations. Luis Eduardo Luna (Wasiwaska Research Center for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Ar, Florianopolis, Brazil) [155]
An ontological interpretation of "anomalous" experiences Ede Frecska (Psychiatry, University of Debrecen; National Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, Hungary, Debrecen, Hajdu-Bihar Hungary) [153]

PL7: Predictive Coding and Consciousness

THUR Sept 17, 2020 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am at ONLINE

Losing Ourselves: Active Inference, Depersonalization and Enlightenment Mark Miller (Informatics, University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom) [78]

How expectation shapes perception: from cortical layers to brain-wide networks Peter Kok (Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging, University College London, London, United Kingdom) [111]

The role of predictions in consciousness Lucia Melloni (Max Planck Institute, Munich, X Germany) [174]

PL8: The Role of Consciousness in Decision Making and Action Formation

THUR Sept 17, 2020 - 11:40 am - 1:00 pm at ONLINE

The readiness potential in the study of conscious free will Aaron Schurger (Psychology, Chapman University, Orange, CA ) [84]
The role of subjective temporal experience in decision making Eve Atchariya Isham (Psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ ) [83]
Beyond Libet: Correlations, Hypnosis and Icebergs Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, PhD (Duke University, Durham, NC ) [52]

On the Role of Consciousness in Deliberate Decisions Uri Maoz (Chapman University, Orange, CA ) [194]

PL9: Is the Universe Conscious?

THUR Sept 17, 2020 -2:30 pm - 4:40 pm at ONLINE

How can the world be grounded in universal consciousness? Miri Albahari (Philosophy, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia Australia) [14]
The Universe Isn't Conscious - The Universe is Consciousness Deepak Chopra (Prof., UCSD School of Medicine, The Chopra Center, Carlsbad, CA ) [17]
Panpsychism Is the Future Philip Goff (Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom) [19]

Does quantum panprotopsychism lead to cosmic idealism? Paavo Pylkkanen (Philosophy, University of Helsinki, Finland and University of Skovde, Sweden., Helsinki, Finland) [211]

PL10: Keynote - Evolution, Emotion & Consciousness

THUR Sept 17, 2020 - 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm at ONLINE

X Antonio Damasio (Director, Brain and Creativity, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA ) [162]

PL11: Quantum Consciousness

FRI SEPT 18, 2020 - 8:30 am - 10:40 am at ONLINE

When are Atoms Happy? Hartmut Neven , Peter Read (Visual Search, Google, Venice Beach, CA ) [208]
Anesthesia - The quantum key to consciousness Stuart Hameroff, MD (Anesthesiology and Psychology; Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona; AHSC, UMC; Dir. Center for Consciousness Studies, Tucson, AZ ) [207]
Optical and Magnetic Vortices Generated by a Single Microtubule for Quantum Properties Anirban Bandyopadhyay (Advanced Scanning Probe Micros, National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan) [237]
Orch-OR: New results on the physics of OR Roger Penrose (Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, London United Kingdom) [210]

PL12: Keynote - Space and Time in the Brain

FRI SEPT 18, 2020 - 11:10 am - 12:30 pm at ONLINE

Space and time: Pathways to understanding high-level brain functions Edvard Moser (NTNU, Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway) [221]

PL13: Origin of EEG

FRI SEPT 18, 2020 - 2:30 pm - 4:40 pm at ONLINE

Synapses, Neurons and Circuits Generating EEG Signals M. Bruce MacIver (Professor (Research) of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA ) [146]
What Does EEG Tell Us About Consciousness? Paul L. Nunez (Biomedical Engineering, Tulane University, Encinitas, CA ) [107]
Electrical Oscillations of Brain Microtubular Structures Horacio F. Cantiello , Cantero Maria Del Rocio; Perez Paula Luciana; Scarinci Maria Noelia; Gutierrez Brenda Celeste (Instituto Multidisciplinario de Salud - Tecnologia y Desarrollo, Instituto Multidisciplinario de Salud, Tecnologia y Desarrollo IMSaTeD (UNSE-CON, Santiago del Estero, Villa El Zanjon Argentina) [130]
X Alysson R. Muotri (Sanford Consortium For Regener, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA ) [106]