TSC 2015: Full Schedule

Welcome to ’Toward a Science of Consciousness 2015’ the 21st annual international, interdisciplinary conference on the fundamental questions connected with conscious experience.

Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC) is the largest and longest-running interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Cutting edge, controversial issues are emphasized. Held annually since 1994, the TSC conferences alternate yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. The University of Helsinki is proud to host TSC 2015 in the Great Hall of its neoclassical main building located in the downtown area.

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12:10pm EEST

Quantum Cognition and Integrative Models

10 June 12:10PM – 01:00PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

A Critical Look at Quantum Cognition
Ilkka Pättiniemi, Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FINLAND

How a cyclical structure of interlocking dimensions can connect a discrete neurological event to the universe of conscious experience
Christopher Edwards, Guelph, CANADA

Chair

Ilmari Hirvonen

University of Helsinki

Presenters

Christopher Edwards

Visual Artist

My presentation is based on a curious pattern of interlocking relationships. I will consider this pattern in five different contexts: As a mythopoeic articulation of underlying structure; as a geometric configuration of dimensional effects; as a physiological articulation of neurological... Read More →

Ilkka Pättiniemi

University of Helsinki

Quantum Cognition and Intergrative Models pdf

Wednesday June 10, 2015 12:10pm - 1:00pm EEST
Main Building, auditorium IX

Concurrent talks, 1.10 Epistemology and philosophy of science, 4.1 Quantum theory, 4.3 Integrative models

2:30pm EEST

Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness I

10 June 02:30PM – 04:35PM

SPEAKERS AND TITLES

Information Integration Theory As a Foundation for a Science of Consciousness
Andreas Chatzopoulos, University of Turku, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, Turku, FINLAND

Consciousness as information in philosophy and neuroscience: Double-Aspect and Integrated Information Theory compared
Matteo Grasso, Philosophy, Communication and Media Studies, Roma Tre University, Rome, ITALY

Integrated Information Theory, Constructive Empiricism, and the metaphysics of consciousness
Joseph Neisser, Philosophy , Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa, USA

Coalescing Minds and Personal Identity
Harri Valpola, , ZenRobotics Ltd, , FINLAND
Kaj Sotala, Machine Intelligence Research Institute, Helsinki, FINLAND

Neural Information as the Amount of a Description of Consciousness.
Yoshi Tamori, Human Information System laboratory, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Hakusan- shi/Ishikawa, JAPAN
Kanna Kakuda, Bio/Chemical Science, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Hakusan-shi/Ishikawa, JAPAN , Yuko Uryu, Bio/Chemical Science, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Hakusan-shi/Ishikawa, JAPAN

Chair

Ron Chrisley

University of Sussex

Presenters

Andreas Chatzopoulos

Ph.D-student, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience

Ph.D-student in Philosophy as well as a web developer and designer. Main areas of interest are Philosophy, Cognitive Science, web technologies and development. As a Ph.D-student I’m a part of Consciousness Research Group at Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience at University of Turku... Read More →

Matteo Grasso

PhD student, Roma Tre University

PhD Student in Philosophy at Roma Tre University Visiting student at Oxford University

Kanna Kakuda

Joseph Neisser

Grinnell College

Kaj Sotala

University of Helsinki

Yoshi Tamori

Associate Professor, Kanazawa Institute of Technology

Brain science researcher. Neuroimaging fMRI, MEG, EEG as such.

Harri Valpola

ZenRobotics Ltd

Abstracts Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness I pdf

Wednesday June 10, 2015 2:30pm - 4:35pm EEST
Main Building, auditorium I

Concurrent talks, 1.1 The concept of consciousness, 1.10 Epistemology and philosophy of science, 1.2 Metaphysics of consciousness, 1.3 Materialism and dualism, 1.5 Machine consciousness, 2.1 Neural correlates of consciousness (general), 4.3 Integrative models

9:00am EEST

Quantum Theory and Relativity

13 June 09:00 AM - 11:05 AM

A physicalist/Topological Dual-Aspect Information Theory of Consciousness.
Uzi Awret, Physics., Trinity Washington University., falls church va., USA

Mind as Brain and Brain as Mind: A Double Face View On Mental Causation
Jonas Goncalves Coelho, University of Sao Paulo State, Bauru, BRAZIL

Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder: The Relativity of Visual Experience
Andrew Duggins, Neurology, University of Sydney, Westmead, AUSTRALIA
Xin Zhang, Westmead Hospital, Westmead, AUSTRALIA

Irreducibility of the Logic of Integrated Information: From Quantum Coherence to Unity of Consciousness and Beyond
Marcin J. Schroeder, Basic Education, Akita International University, Akita, JAPAN

The Physics of Value: Consciousness as modulator of the Bohmian Quantum Potential to achieve biologically advantageous resource allocation
Francis Steen, Comm Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA

Chair

Johanna Blomqvist

Ph.D. (physics), entrepreneur, researcher, Mindstream.fi

Presenters

Uzi Awret

Trinity Washington University.

Jonas Goncalves Coelho

Professor, University of Sao Paulo State

Andrew Duggins

Staff Specialist Neurologist, University of Sydney

I completed a theoretical neuroscience PhD at UCL in 2009 entitled 'The Form of Consciousness'. In the PhD I constructed a quantum mathematical formalism of neural signalling that reduces to the conventional neurone doctrine at the level of the single neuron, but at the scale of... Read More →

Concurrent talks, 1.10 Epistemology and philosophy of science, 1.2 Metaphysics of consciousness, 1.6 Mental causation and the function of consciousness, 2.10 Quantum neurodynamics, 3.2 Vision, 4.1 Quantum theory, 4.2 Space and time, 4.3 Integrative models