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Toward a Science of Consciousness 2009
Announcement and Call for Papers
Investigating Inner Experience
Brain, Mind, Technology
Hong Kong, China, June 11-14, 2009
www.asiaconsciousness.org/TSC
Long a meeting place for Eastern and Western ideas and the media
capital of Asia, Hong Kong, China hosts the 15th in a series of Toward
a Science of Consciousness conferences held yearly since 1994. The
conferences are known for broad, interdisciplinary and multi-faceted
approaches to the age-old question of how the brain produces
consciousness awareness
Subjective inner experience has long been approached through
introspection, mysticism, and meditative contemplation, and revealed
through art, mythology and ritual. In the past half century, science
has found computation among neurons to explain brain functions, and
promoted the possibility of conscious
machines. Now, various media technologies attempt to communicate,
simulate and re-create inner experience. In a spirit of synergy, the
conference is organized along three entwined themes.
BRAIN: Does consciousness require axonal firing explosions, dendritic
synchrony, global assemblies, recurrent loops, mobile agents or finer-
scale activities inside neurons? What do mechanisms of mind-altering
drugs tell us about consciousness? What can brain imaging and
electrical recording tell us
about conscious and unconscious processing?
MIND: How can subjective experience be studied objectively? Are
Western analytical and Eastern contemplative methods complementary? Do
ordinary states of consciousness differ in measurable brain activity
from altered and meditative states? What essential features of inner
experience
can be best reported and artistically portrayed?
TECHNOLOGY: How can technology best interface with consciousness? Can
consciousness exist in technology? Can the science of consciousness
help media technology become more attuned to human subjective
experience? Can functional brain organization be useful in technology
design?
A Plenary Program, Pre-Conference Workshops, social events and side
trips will be announced. The conference precedes the IEEE Conference
on Cognitive Informatics in Hong Kong (June 15-17), and is affiliated
with other events in June, 2009 which are part of an Asia
Consciousness Festival
Submissions of original papers related to the three themes are invited
from philosophy, psychology, neuroscience, cognitive science,
phenomenology, media, technology, games, computer science, and other
related fields.
Abstract submission will be open until February 1, 2009. For
registration, abstract submission and further information see
http://www.asiaconsciousness.org/TSC
Abstract Submissions: https://sbs.arizona.edu/project/consciousness
Submissions demonstrating media, technology and art attempting to
simulate consciousness are invited for a special session. Prizes will
be awarded for the best demos.
Abstract submitters will be notified regarding abstract assignment
within two weeks of submission.
Sponsored by Hong Kong Polytechnic University, MERECL
and the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona |
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