Concurrent Sessions
(30-minute sessions: 20-minute talk, 10-minute discussion)
Day 1 | Day 3

Day 2 | Friday 12th June
Concurrent 6: Introspection/Attention/Self-Consciounsess
14:30–17:00
Beyond the Self-Representational Theory of Consciousness
Zhihua Yao
Immunity to errror through misidentification
Francois Recanati
Introspection and Inference
Nicholas Silins
A defense of perceptual accounts of pain
Verena Gottschling
What’s Not Wrong with Intrinsicalism?
Jerry Yang
Concurrent 7: Neurobiological/Models/Theories
14:30–17:00
Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry
Zhicheng Lin
Dendritic Processing of Information: A Nanoneuroscience Perspective
Nancy Woolf
Neocortical Strong Loops: A framework for consciousness?
Julien Vezoli
Unconscious Intentional Action and Wu-Wei: Rethinking the Evidence for the Somatic Marker Hypothesis
Marshall Willman
Brain Basis for Transforming Consciousness with Mind-Body Bridging
Stanley Block
Concurrent 8: Decision, Executive Function and Emotion
14:30–17:00
Neural correlates of mental preparation for successful insight problem solving
Jiang Qiu
The Neural Basis of the "accept or reject?" Decision Making in Uncertain Situations
Tingyong Feng
Neural Correlates of the Typicality Effect in a Deductive Reasoning Task
Hong Li
The Origins of Valence in Emotion Experience
Louis Charland
Does automatic affective processing to priming pictures have influence on concreteness effects in the target words recognition?
Qin Zhang
Concurrent 9: Physics of Consciousness
14:30–17:00
Our Entanglement with Light’s Consciousness: How physics supports our conscious role in the vast electromagnetic spectrum
TL Baumann
Neurons to Self-awareness: A Physicist’s appraisal
Sisir Roy
Taking Whitehead Seriously in Relativistic QFT and Qualitative Consciousness
Jesse Bettinger
Quantum tunneling models for Biological Systems
Masayuki Hirafugi
Consciousness and Subconsciousness From a Physicist’s Point of View
Wlodzimierz Klonowski

Concurrent 10: Technology/Art/Media
14:30–17:00
New Media Art and the Multiple Self
Roy Ascott
Las Meninas, depicting HOT's, SOMTs and much more
Roy Awret
Subjectivising sound: Cognition and the soundscape in contemporar
G Bettinson
Help, My Parents are Gutenborgs!
Jan Sleutels
Streaming Selves on screen: A semiotic and statistical approach of the representation of Self in interactive devices
Fanny Georges

*Program may be subjected to change.

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