Toward a Science of Consciousness, June 11-4, 2009 Hong Kong

     C O N F E R E N C E    P R O G R A M -   aerial overview -  updated May 25, 2009

I.    Plenary Sessions   (mornings - June 11,12,13,14)

2.   Concurrrent Sessions (afternoons - June 11,12,13)

3.   Art & Technology Exhibits (evenings - June 11,12)

4.   Special Performances (evenings - June 13)

5.   Pre-Conference Workshops (June 10)

6.   Poster Session (evening  - June 12)

7.   Post Conference - Machine Consciousness Workshop (June 14)

1.    P L E N A R Y   S E S S I O N S  [mornings]

        PL 1 - PL 15    

        location:       HKPU - JCA Jockey Club Auditorium

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Plenary - Thursday June 11, 2009

Brain and Consciousness 1

   PL 1    Susan Greenfield -  The Neuroscience of Consciousness

   PL 2    Hakwan Lau - The Dynamic Threshold Hypothesis of Sensory

                     Awareness

   PL 3    Ovid Tzeng -  Brain Processes in Reading Chinese: Insight from

                     Experiments on the Educated Eyes and the Educated Brain

First-Person Approaches

    PL 4    Jonathan Schooler - The draw of the internal world:

                      Phenomenological,  behavioral,  and neurocognitive approaches

                      converge in revealing  the nature  of  mind-wandering

    PL 5    Ramesh Manocha -   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

Plenary - Friday June 12, 2009

Games and Media

    PL 6    Gino Yu - Video Games as a Research and Collaboration Tool for

                      Consciousness Studies

     Panel:    Raul Arrabales  Designing Human-like Video Game Synthetic

                      Characters  through Machine Consciousness

                     Jayne Gackenbach   Dreams and Video Game Play

                      Gregory Garvey   DIssociation: A Natural State of Mind?

                      Marc Price Relationships Between Media Technology and Personal Reality

Extended Mind and Extended Body

     PL 7    David Chalmers - The Extended Mind Revisited

     PL 8    Henrik Ehrsson  -   Body-Swapping and Out-of-Body Illusions:

                      How we come  to experience that we own our body

Plenary - Saturday June 13, 2009

Brain and Consciousness II

    PL 9    Victor Lamme - How Neuroscience will Show us the True Nature of    

                     Consciousness

   PL 10   Stuart Hameroff -   The ‘Conscious Pilot’ – Dendritic Synchrony  Moves 

                     Through  the Brain   (like a computer worm) to Mediate  Consciousness

   PL 11   Wolf Singer - Consciousness, A Special Dynamical State?

Theoretical Frameworks

   PL 12    Ken Mogi - The Contingent Brain

   PL 13   Jeff Warren - A Phenomenological Map of Consciousness

Plenary - Sunday June 14, 2009

Social Approaches to Consciousness

   PL 14  Charles Whitehead -   Why We Need Social Approaches

     Panel:   Joan Y. Chiao  Cultural Neuroscience of Consciousness: From Visual

                     Perception to  Self-Awareness

                    Etzel Cardeña  The Relationship Between Hypnotizability and

                     Emotional  Contagion

                    Imants Barušs  Beyond Scientific Materialism: Toward a Transcendent

                     Theory of Consciousness

Machine Consciousness:

   PL 15  Ben Goertzel - All Things Are Conscious, But Some Things Are More

                   Conscious Than Others: A Panpsychist Approach to Quantifying Intensity of

                   Consciousness in Natural and   Engineered Systems

      Panel:  Hugo de Garis   The Conscious Robot Project: A Neural-Symbolic

                    Approach to  Robotically   Embodied Machine Consciousness

                    Yingxu Wang  On the Origin and Embodiment of Consciousness in

                    Cognitive  Informatics and Computational Intelligence

2.     C O N C U R R E N T   S E S S I O N S   

         C 1 - C 15

         Thursday June 11, 2009        2:30 - 5:30 PM

C 1  Materialism and the Explanatory Gap:    (A 102)

1. Vitor Manuel Pereira Dinis, An Explanation for the Illusion of Contingency
2. Amir Horowitz, Turning the Zombie on its Head
3. Joe Lau, Indexicals, Consciousness, and the Knowledge Argument -- A Defense of Perry
4. Itay Shani, The Explanatory Gap as a Problem of Entailment
5. Noel Boyle, Overcoming Pessimism About a Science of Consciousness Through a Better Understanding of 'Explanation'

C 2  Neuroscience and Perception:        (104 K)

1. Nantu Hu,   The Neural Correlates Underlying One Simulated Component of Mind  Wandering: An fMRI Study of Involuntary Visual Imagery
   
2. Naoyuki Osaka, Visual Awareness without Prefrontal Consciousness
3. Natacha Santos, A Functional Neuroimaging Study on Animacy and Social   Perception
4. Winfried Schlee, Tinnitus: The Global Neuronal Network of an Auditory Phantom  Perception
5. Junsong Zhang, The Influence of Chinese Calligraphy Practice to Sustained   Attention:  An ERP study

  C 3  Medicine and Psychotherapy:         (GH 136)

1. Dora Brown,  Qualitative Investigations into the Phenomenology of Self Awareness:Two Methods Applied to the Brain-Injured
2. Younbyoung Chae, The Dissociation between Acupuncture and Placebo Effect in Parkinson’s Diseases: An fMRI Study
3. P. Suntharalingam, Preliminary Analysis Using Skin Conductance Responses to  Determine Awareness in Patients with Disorders of Consciousness
4. Yoshi Nakamura, A Constructivist View of How Placebos Work
5.  Desiree Cox, Inner states, Inner voices : Transpersonal consciousness and the creative arts

. C 4  Evolution of Consciousness:       (CCST)

1. Stephen Schafer, Story-Based Video Games: a Technological Approach to Research on the Cognitive Unconscious Using Narrative-Metaphorical Frames
2. John Stewart, Electronic Games that Develop Consciousness
3. Wengao Huang, Interactive Art: Between Game and Meditation
4. Marcus Abundis, Towards a Unified Field Theory of Human Behavior - Global Cultural  Evolution
5. Elif Ayiter, Alpha.Tribe: Alt Avatars Explore Creative Identity

C 5  Social Approaches:                     (GH 201)

1. Andre Ong, How Can Inner Subjective Experiences Be Studied Objectively      Perspectives from the Phenomenological Anthropology of Karol Wojtyla/Pope John Paul II
2. David Craik,  The Anthropology of consciousness
3. Deborah Denno, How Modern Research on Consciousness Can Change the way  Criminal Law Views Human Behavior
4. Janet McIntyre, Wellbeing, Mindfulness and the Global Commons
5. Charles Whitehead, The Social Revolution in Neuroscience
   

          Friday June 12, 2009   -    2:30 - 5:30 PM

  C 6  Introspection, Attention, Self-Consciousness:  (GH 201)

1. Nicholas Silins, Introspection and Inference
2. Kranti Saran, Transparency, Representation and Penetrative Attention
   
3. Jerry Yang,  What’s Not Wrong with Intrinsicalism?
4. Zhihua Yao, Beyond the Self-Representational Theory of Consciousness
5. Verena Gottschling, A Defense of Perceptual Accounts of Pain
6. Zoltan Veres, Anamorphosis and Consciousness

C 7  Neurobiological Models and Theories: (A 122 Courtyard)

1. Stanley Block, A Brain Basis for Transforming Consciousness with Mind-Body  Bridging

2. Zhicheng Lin, Seeing the Invisible: The Scope and Limits of Unconscious Processing  in Binocular Rivalry

3. Julien Vezoli, Neocortical Strong Loops: A Framework for Consciousness?

4. Marshall Willman, Unconscious Intentional Action and Wu-Wei: Rethinking the Evidence for the Somatic Marker Hypothesis

5. Benjamin Young, Stinking Consciousness!

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  C 8  Language, Reasoning and Emotion:   (A 104 K)

1. Mei-Yan Chiang, The Phenomenon of Metaphor Creation: Subjective Experience and Personal Meaning at the Moment of Metaphorical Utterance

2. Navneet Chopra, Can ToM Be Prior To Language?

3. Li Hong, Neural Correlates of the Typicality Effect in a Deductive Reasoning Task

4. Rafal Rzepka, Artificial Self Based on Collective Mind - Using Common Sense and Emotions Web-Mining for Ethically Correct Behaviors

5. Qin Zhang, Does Automatic Affective Processing to Priming Pictures Have Influence on Concreteness Effects in the Target Words Recognition?

C 9  Physics of Consciousness:   (A 102)

1. T.L. Baumann, Our Entanglement with Light’s Consciousness: How Physics Supports our cConscious Role in the Vast Electromagnetic Spectrum
2. Jesse Bettinger, Taking Whitehead Seriously in Relativistic QFT and Qualitative Consciousness
3. Masayuki Hirafugi, QuantumTunneling Models for Biological Systems
4. Wlodzimierz Klonowski, Consciousness and Subconsciousness from a Physicist's Point of View                                                    
5. Casey Blood, Quantum Mechanics and the Mind

  C 10  Technology, Art and Media:        (CCST)

1. Naoko Tosa, New Hitch Haiku: an Interactive Renku Poem Composition Supporting Tool applied for Sightseeing Navigation System
2. Uziel Awret, Las Meninas, Depicting HOT's, SOMTs' and Much More.
3. Gary Bettinson, Subjectivising sound: Cognition and the Soundscape in   Contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
4. Ornella Corazza, Consciousness, Drugs and the Internet
5. Jan Sleutels, Help, My Parents Are Gutenborgs!

          Saturday June 13, 2009 -   2:30 - 6:00 PM

  C 11  Ontological and Conceptual Foundations:     (A 122)

1. S. Benjamin Fink, The Logic of Phenomenology Instead of the Metaphysics of Phenomenality
2. Kelly Inglis, Thoughts that are A-Conscious but not P-Conscious
3. Marek McGann, Perceptual Modalities: Modes of Presentation or Modes of Action?
4. Stephen Palmquist, Kant and Jung on the Unconscious Patterning Power of the Mind
5. Carsten Hansen, The Metaphysics of Phenomenal Experience
6. Andrew Westcombe, Taking Consciousness Seriously

  C 12  First-Person Neuroscience:   (CCST)

1. Arnaldo Benini, Human Time-Sense and its Neurological Disturbances
2. John  Haworth, Research into Subjective Well-being,Creativity, and Embodied  Mind, Using a Mobile Phone-Camera with an Experience Sampling Method
3. Olga Louchakova, Contra Husserl, Body Supports Spiritual Awareness. How?    Flesh of the World in Tantrik Meditation.
4. Marek Bronislaw Majorek,  Does the Brain Produce Conscious Experience?
5. Ovidiu Brazdau, The Conscious Experience: Consciousness Quotient (CQ) and Brazdau CQ Inventory (BCQI)
6. Charles Lenay, Enacting the Experience of Space Through Technological Mediation: Towards an Enactive (and Externalist) Model of Spatial Consciousness

C 13  Development of Consciousness:   (A 104K)

1. Min-Young Choi,   The Design and Development of Interactive Therapy System for  Children with Autism - With Emphasis on the Application of Virtual Reality and Tangible  Interaction
2. Nevia Dolcini,  Consciousness: is it wordless?
3. Chad Eby,    Scherzo: Relieving Anxiety for Children During an M.R.I. Scan via       Interactive  Audio Augmentation
4. Li-Yu Huang,   Explore the Impact of Multiple Representations of Thermal Expansion   Conceptions on High School Students' Conceptual Change Process and Brain Process
5. David Keiser, Mindful Teaching: Towards a More Conscious Pedagogy
6. Wasantha Gunathunga, Transforming Discriminate Consciousness to Pure Consciousness to Achieve Complete Mental Health: A Case Report of Contemplative Neuro-Scientific Self Inquiry

C 14  Phenomenology and Parapsychology:    (A 102)

1. Allan Combs, Multiple Phenomenologies of Postmodernism
2. Mokbel Shukri, The Discovery of a Fundamental, Well-Structured and Pervasive Field While in an Altered State of Consciousness

3. Ingrid Fredriksson,  What Happens with Our Consciousness When Life is Over?

4. Sander Wilkens, The Limit(s) of Consciousness as an Outcome of Polarity
5. Alexander Yakhnis, Why a Turing Machine Cannot Remote View? - Expiring Functionality of Remote Viewing
6. Robin Zebrowski, Robot Dreams: Requirements for Synthetic Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity

  C 15  East-West Approaches:     (GH 201)

1. Ellen Esrock, Empathy, Breath, Art and the Somato-Vscero-Motor System
2. Merlin Lucas, Taxonomy of Samadhi: Toward a Phenomenologically Informed Neurophenomenological Investigation
3. Roy Perrett, Quality, Substance, Action: Classical Indian Philosophical Theories of  Consciousness
4. Ramakrishna Rao, "Consciousness" in Indian Psychology
5. Lily Seah, Ancient Chinese I-Ching and Human Consciousness
6. Fabrice Bothereau, Atomism and Atelic Conceptualization

3.     EXPLORING CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ART, TECHNOLOGY AND DESIGN EXHIBITIONS [evenings]  

        CCST - Chian Chen Studio Theatre

  A 1 -   Thursday June 11, 2009

1. Ana Iribas Rudin - Hypnosis I-a (Autohypnosis)

2. Jennifer 'Nikolova'  Kanary - Roomforthoughts: Labyrinth Psychotica, the  epistemology of an art experience in relation to the simulation of schizophrenic psychosis

3. Tonietta Walters - Flow in the Zone: A global perspective on the inner experience of the traditional artist                                         

  A 2 -   Friday June 12, 2009

1. Michael Gaio - CogSpace
   

2. Alexander Graur - Music Integrative Neurotherapy, TM:    The method and its uses in Mood, Personality and Sleep disorders.  A quantum  model for neurotherapy
   

3. Bryan Rill -  Identity Discourses on the Dance Floor

4. John Haworth -  A Day in the Life of Situ

 4.           SPECIAL PERFORMANCES - Saturday June 13, 2009    (evening)

S 1       Ed Mikenas, Percussionist, The Giant Client: Developing a Collective Consciousness Through Hand Drumming

S 2       Martha Curtis, Violinist and Lecturer,   Efficacy of Consciousness and Transformative Power of Music

                *   The Martha Curtis performance and presentation is made possible  through funding  arranged by Enlighten-Action for Epilepsy, Hong Kong  

S 3       Jeff Warren - Author, A Phenomenological Map of Consciousness

5.     PRECONFERENCE TUTORIAL WORKSHOPS  -  Wednesday June 10, 2009

morning session  

 9:00-1:00             The Hidden Sides of Experience: Exploring Dissociations Between

                                    Experiential Consciousness and Meta-Awareness

                                   Jonathan Schooler

afternoon  sessions

2:30 - 6:00              Efficacy of Consciousness - Transformative Power of Music

                                      Martha Curtis, Jonathan Schooler

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 2:30 - 6:00             Science of Consciousness 

                                       Stuart Hameroff

4:00-6:00                Signal Detection Theory      

                                        Hakwan Lau

full-day sessions

9:30 - 6:00              Rhythm and Consciousness  

                                       Ed Mikenas

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                                 Non-Dual Consciousness  

                                     Louchakova, Lucas, Kozhevnikov

                                 Social Brain & Human Sociability 

                                      David Craik, Charles Whitehead

                                 Transforming Consciousness Through Yoga  

                                    Siegfried Bleher

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                                 Finding the Other You - The "Spacial" You

                                     Gregory Sipp

6.         POSTER SESSIONS - combined for Friday evening Session, June 12, 2009

 P 1 Philosophy:

• Bizarro, Sara - Sunsets and Smiling Babies. Can "Qualia" be the Result of a Mental  Lag?
• Evans, Paul - The Evolution of a Consciousness "Singularity"
• Gill, Richard - Nature of Consciousness and the Role of Objectivity
• Holbrook, Dwight - Ontologically Deaf: Questions About 'Where' That Lead Nowhere
• Kato, Teruo - The Relationship Between Consciousness and Life and the Quantum Vacuum with Respect to Mind and Body and the Locus and Space of Existence
• Liu, Nai-jia - Can a Materialist Accept “What is it Like to be a Bat”?
• Longinotti, David - The Source of Qualia
• Payne, Max - Brain, Mind & Technology
• Roberts, Tim - Schrödinger’s Cat and Descartes’ Dog: The Failure of Common Sense
• Sweis, Khaldoun -A Defense of the Soul
• Yang, Jack - Troubles with Reductionism: Can We Reduce Consciousness?

• Benda, Thomas - How Aliens Help Us to Embrace Content Internalism
• Chien, Peng - A Non-Reductive Approach to the Problem of Mental Causation
• Fei, Dingzhou - Did Mary Know All the Physical Facts?
• Fernandes, Sara - How Do Neurosciences Challenge Who We Are?
• Germen, Murat - The ‘Eternal Now’: Experience as a Tool of Personal World Making in Photography
• Goncalves, Jorge - Reportability and Phenomenal Consciousness
• Li, Qishi - A Mind-Working Mechanism that Rather Develops Experience of Consciousness that is Thought Born With: The “Three-Rules” Towards a Conscious Being
• Okada, Taimei - Creating Satisfied Life with Functionalistic Approach
• Piercey, Rodney - On a Scientific Explanation for Volition Action
• Rapparini, Ruggero - Quantum Consciousness: Lost in the Wood?
• Saari,  Matti - Consciousness, As the Neural Monist Views It!
• Tariq,  Sadia - Revisiting the Relationship Between Mind and Genes as a First Step Towards Understanding the Origins of the Contemporary Human Mind, Its Current Functioning and Problems
• Voronov, Nikolay - Qualia: The Language of Consciousness
• Wallace, John - Can Access Consciousness Qualify as Computer Consciousness? Or, So What if My Computer Can’t Cry!
• Wright, John - The "Felicitous Alignment" and the Causal Efficacy of Consciousness
• Zhu, Jing - Self-Awareness and Mindreading

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 P 2 Neuroscience:

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• Alto, Eduard - Different Delays of Input Firing as Necessary Condition for Stereopsis: Microsaccades and Drifts as Mechanism for 3D Vision Even Monocularly
• Bergstrom, Matti - A Mathematical Model of the Human Brain for Construction of Machine Consciousness and Thinking
• Gordon, Susan - Psycho-Neuro-Intracrinology: The Embodiment of Myth, Intentionality, and the Spiritual Sense of Well-Being in Women at Midlife
• Yi, Lei - Temporal Dissociation of Category Judgment and Response Rule Extraction: Typicality Effect Seen by Brain Potentials

• Devonshire, Ian - Optical Imaging Reveals a Differential Action of General Anaesthesia on Selective Features of Transient Neuronal Assemblies in Rat Barrel Cortex
• Vahid Salari, Biophotons Emission and EEG Diagrams: A Computational Approach
• Wang, Qin -  Lack of Correlation Between ERK Activation and Receptor Endocytosis Induced by Clonidine and Guanfacine in Native Neocortical Neurons

• Wan, Qi  - Ischemic Insults Direct Glutamate Receptor Subunit 2-Lacking AMPA Receptors to Synaptic Sites

 P 3 Cognitive Science and Psychology:

• Dobson, Paul -    Measuring Human Personality by Gas Discharge Visualization:    A Cross-Cultural Empirical Study
•  Yamada, Ayumi - The Accuracy of Verbal Reports Regarding the Effects of  Route Locations on Navigational Choices
• Snezana Cerepnalkovska Dukovska, Multi-Agent Model Based on its Information States Presenting There Consciousness for Physical Phenomenon-Information Paradigm and its Applications
• Osinski, Boleszek -   The Importance of Earlier Ideas

 P 4 Physical and Biological Science:

• George Potter, The Buddhist Science of Mind and the Western Mandala of Consciousness

• Yang, Qing -  Life is Motion of Exoteric, Polymeric, Circulatory Set of Electron Pair

 P 5 Experiential Approaches:

• Hatt, Sean - ADHD in Black and White: A Comparative Inquiry in Narrative and Photographs Examining the Social Construction of ADHD in Poor African American and Affluent White American Families
• Ihalamulla, Ratnasiri  - A Different Person: How Unfolding Pure Consciousness Through Insight Could Transform an Individual
• Aimee Acebedo - Ashtanga Yoga as Mind Making: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Inquiry of the Transformative Experiences Accompanying Ashtanga Yoga Practice
  

• Taguchi, Mayumi - Embodied Reason: The Mechanics of Spiritual Self-Generation in the English Versions of the Meditationes Vitae Christi
• Purananon, Doldao - The Development of the Buddhist Mettã Scale: A Study (in the Thai Factory)

 P 6 Culture and the Humanities:

• McCarthy, Christine  - Art and the Creation of Mind
• Iribas Rudin, Ana Eva - Hypnosis in Contemporary Art
• Cousins, Wendy - An Altered State: Automatic Writing and the Irish Literary Revival             

• Salvato, Lucia - Consciousness
  

 7.  POSTCONFERENCE WORKSHOP - Sunday June 14 [afternoon]

Machine Consciousness: Ben Goertzel - Conceptualizing Machine Consciousness

Panel:

Allan Combs, Liane Gabora   Machine Consciousness: Essential, Functionalist, and    Mixed Approaches

Anirban Bandyopadhyay How can we program a nano-brain so that it can run   complex   jobs without human intervention?

Hugo de Garis The Conscious Robot Project: A Neural-Symbolic Approach to   Robotically Embodied Machine Consciousness

John Wallace  Can Access Consciousness Qualify as Computer Consciousness?   Or, So What  If My Computer Can’t Cry!

John-Thones Amenyo Engineering Computer Architecture Models for the Evolution of  Interiorized Creator-in-a-Box Roles for Conscious Robots, Self-Aware  Robots, Automata, Machines and Artifacts

Paul Fahn  The Android’s Wardrobe: Emotions, Preferences, and Pre-Rational    Decisions in Machine Consciousness

Pierre Bonzon  Towards Machine Consciousness: a Developmental Theory of   Thoughts as  Communicating Processes  

Qishi Li  A mental mechanism explaining the developmental emergence of   consciousness: The three rules leading towards conscious being

Raul Arrabales, Agapito Ledezma, Araceli Sanchis   CERA-CRANIUM:    A  Test   Bed  for Machine Consciousness Research

Robin Zebrowski  Robot Dreams: Requirements for Synthetic Phenomenology and    Intersubjectivity

Yingxu Wang On the Origin and Embodiment of Consciousness in Cognitive   Informatics and  Computational Intelligence

Jun Zhang Intentionality and Goal-Oriented Behavior from Reinforcement Learning

TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2009

Investigating Inner Experience -  Brain, Mind, Technology

HONG KONG, CHINA - June 11-14, 2009    

Researchers in the sciences and humanities are invited to Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009.  This conference, the 15th in a series of international interdisciplinary conferences on consciousness, will be held in Hong Kong, China from June 11th to 14th, 2009. An outstanding program has taken shape, including many internationally recognized experts and many strong contributed presentations. The themes include Brain, Mind, and Technology, with emphasis on consciousness and media.  The program, includes Plenary, Concurrent, Poster, Art/Performance, and Workshop sessions.

The conference is part of a larger Asia Consciousness Festival, a month-long series of events, including About Consciousness: Science, Health and Happiness t and the IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics. We look forward to seeing you in Hong Kong.

TOWARD A SCIENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS 2009

Investigating Inner Experience -  Brain, Mind, Technology

HONG KONG, CHINA - June 11-14, 2009    

http://www.asiaconsciousness.org/TSC

sponsored by Hong Kong Polytechnical University, Hong Kong, China

www.asiaconsciousness.org/TSC  and the

Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona

www.consciousness.arizona.edu       

Conference Chairs

Gino Yu - Hong Kong Polytechnic University, MERECL

Stuart Hameroff - University of Arizona

David Chalmers - Australian National University

Conference Managers

Arlene 'Abi Behar-Montefiore - University of Arizona

Alex Parkes - Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Program Committee

David Chalmers, Australian National University
Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
Gino Yu, The Hong Kong  Polytechnic University
Roy Ascott, University of Plymouth
Richard Davidson, University of Wisconsin
Frank Echenhofer, California Institute of Integral Studies
Majid Fotuhi, Johns Hopkins University
Ben Goertzel, Novamente
Susan Greenfield, Oxford University
Allen Houng, National Yang Ming University
Shier Ju, Sun Yat-sen University
Hakwan Lau, Columbia University
Olga Louchakova, Institute of Transpersonal Psychology
Jefferey Martin, California Institute of Integral Studies
Ryojei Nakatsu, National University of Singapore
Yoshio Nakamura, University of Utah School of Medicine
Dean Radin, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Sraddhalu Ranade, Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Matthias Rauterberg, TU Eindhoven
Thomas Ray, University of Oklahoma
Pamela Rugledge, Media Psychology Research Center
Marilyn Schlitz, Institute of Noetic Sciences
Dan Siegel, Mindsight Institute
Jeff Warren, Author
Charles Whitehead, University of Westminster

Media Information:

US contact:      Abi Montefiore, center@u.arizona.edu

HK contact:      Alex Parkes, alex.parkes@polyu.edu.hk

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