TSC 2016 The Science of Consciousness

August 31, 2015

The Science of Consciousness (TSC) 2016 Conference is jointly sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and the Center for Consciousness Science at the University of Michigan. Some 700 people are expected for a week-long program of plenary and concurrent talk sessions, posters, art/tech demos, pre-conference workshops, recreation and social events including a welcome reception, conference barbecue and square dance, the traditional Poetry Slam/Zombie Blues/talent show, and closing “End-of-Consciousness” party.

Themes and topics will include:

  • Three Roads to Consciousness: GW, PC and HOT
  • Moving From Correlates to Causes of Consciousness
  • Machine Consciousness and Artificial Intelligence
  • Origin and Evolution of Life and Consciousness
  • Quantum Brain Biology
  • Transcranial Brain Stimulation
  • The “Pribram Session” — Levels, Scale and Content of Consciousness
  • Mechanisms of Anesthesia and Psychoactive Drugs
  • Virtual Reality
  • Consciousness and Collapse of the Wavefunction
  • End-of-life Brain Activity

Plenary speakers will include:

  • Gyorgy Buzsaki, NYU Neuroscience Institute, New York
  • Stanislas Dehaene, INSERM-CEA, Paris
  • Stuart Kauffman, University of Calgary, Alberta
  • Anil K. Seth, University of Sussex, Brighton
  • Aaron Schurger, Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne
  • Wolf Singer, Max Planck Institute for Brain Research, Frankfurt
  • Biyu Jade He, NIH/NINDS, Bethesda
  • Anthony Hudetz, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor
  • Jimo Borjigin, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Henry Stapp, University of California, Berkeley
  • David Chalmers, Australian National University; New York University
  • Rudolph Tanzi, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General, Boston
  • Deepak Chopra, Chopra Center for Wellbeing, Carlsbad
  • Alison Gopnik, University of California, Berkeley
  • Patricia Churchland, University of California, San Diego
  • Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Natl. Inst. for Materials Science, Tsukuba
  • Alyssa Ney, University of California, Davis
  • Katherine T. Peil, Northeastern University, Boston
  • Jakob Hohwy, Monash University, Melbourne

— Event producer