Plenary Sessions

Day 1 | Thursday 11th June
Brain and Consciousness 1
08:45–09:25
Plenary 1: Title to be confirmed Susan Greenfield
09:25–10:10
Plenary 2: The Dynamic Threshold Hypothesis of Sensory Awareness
Hakwan Lau
10:10–10:50
Plenary 3: Brain Processes in Reading Chinese: Insight from Experiments on the Educated Eyes and the Educated Brain
Ovid Tzeng
First Person Approaches
11:20–12:00
Plenary 4: The draw of the internal world: Phenomenological, behavioral, and neurocognitive approaches converge in revealing the nature off mind-wandering
Jonathan Schooler
12:00–12:40
Plenary 5: Mental Health and Quality of Life of a Population of Long Term Meditators in Australia:
Quantifiying the Relationship Between the Mental Silence State of Consciousness and
Wellbeing

Ramesh Manocha

Day 2 | Friday 12th June
Consciousness Games and Media
08:45–09:25
Plenary 6: Video Games as a Research and Collaboration Tool for Consciousness Studies
Gino Yu
09:25–10:50
Plenary Panel: Relationships Between Media Technology and Personal Reality
Marc Price
 
Dissociation: A Natural State of Mind?
G Garvey
 
Dreams and Video Game Play
Jayne Gackenbach
 
Designing Human-like Video Game Synthetic Characters through Machine Consciousness
Raul Arrabeles
Extended Mind and Extended Body
11:20–12:00
Plenary 7: The Extended Mind Revisited
David Chalmers
12:00–12:40
Plenary 8: Body-swapping and out-of-body illusions: how we come to experience that we own our body
Henrik Ehrsson

Day 3 |Saturday 13th June
Brain and Consciousness 2
08:45–09:25
Plenary 9: How Neuroscience will show us the true nature of Consciousness
Victor Lamme
09:25–10:10
Plenary 10: The ‘conscious pilot’ – Dendritic synchrony moves through the brain (like a computer worm) to mediate consciousness
Stuart Hameroff
10:10–10:50
Plenary 11: Consciousness, a special dynamical state?
Wolf Singer
First Person 2
11:20–12:00
Plenary 12: The Contingent Brain
Ken Mogi
12:00–12:40
A Phenomenological Map of Consciousness
Jeff Warren

Day 4 |Sunday 14th June
Sunday Plenary Panels
09:00–10:30
Plenary 14: Social Approaches to Consciousness
Charles Whitehead
et al
11:00–12:30
Plenary 15: Machine Consciousness
Ben Goertzel
et al

*Program may be subjected to change.

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