<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><div>Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011</div><div>Brain, Mind and Reality</div><div><br></div><div>May 2-8, 2011</div><div>Aula Magna Hall</div><div>Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-family: arial; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://consciousness.arizona.edu/TSC2011AnnouncCALLforABSTRACTS.htm" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(54, 68, 82);">http://consciousness.arizona.<wbr>edu/<wbr>TSC2011AnnouncCALLforABSTRACTS<wbr>.htm</a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3" color="#ff0000" face="arial"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-size: 13px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div>Toward a Science of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary conference</div><div>emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious</div><div>awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology,<div>biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine</div><div>consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Held annually</div><div>since 1994, the conference is organized by the Center for Consciousness</div><div>Studies at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly between Tucson,</div><div>Arizona and various locations around the world. Toward a Science of</div><div>Consciousness 2011 will be held at Stockholm University, Aula Magna Hall,</div><div>Stockholm, Sweden, May 2-8, 2011.</div><div><br></div><div>Nine recent developments related to the understanding of consciousness</div><div>will be addressed:</div><div>1) Electromagnetic fields and massively coherent neuronal activities correlate</div><div>with consciousness in the brain</div><div>2) Transcranial therapies aimed at brain fields and neuronal targets promise</div><div>utility in various mental disorders</div><div>3) Neuronal connection maps enable computer simulations of brain !
functions, but</div><div>are axonal and/or dendritic processes!
necessa
ry/sufficient for consciousness?</div><div>4) Anesthetic gases selectively erase consciousness and block coherent gamma</div><div>synchrony EEG acting in a distributed array of dendritic proteins</div><div>5) Warm temperature biological quantum coherence and ballistic conduction in</div><div>microtubules have rejuvenated quantum approaches to consciousness</div><div>6) Physics and cosmology are approaching the nature of reality, time and the</div><div>place of consciousness in the universe</div><div>7) Libet backward time referral of subjective experience is now observed in</div><div>mainstream neuroscience, perhaps accounted for by quantum physics</div><div>8) Surprising end-of-life coherent brain activity suggests a physiological</div><div>correlate for so-called near death experiences</div><div>9) Eastern philosophy and secular spirituality accommodate quantum physics and</div><div>cosmology</div><div><br></div><div>Speakers (preliminary list)</div><div>Anirban Bandyopadh!
yay</div><div>Dick Bierman</div><div>Moran Cerf</div><div>Lakhmir Chawla</div><div>Deepak Chopra</div><div>Nicholas Franks</div><div>Stuart Hameroff</div><div>Germund Hesslow</div><div>Anthony Hudetz</div><div>Tarja Kallio-Tamminen</div><div>Menas Kafatos</div><div>Johnjoe MacFadden</div><div>Rafi Malach</div><div>David McCormick</div><div>Leonard Mlodinow</div><div>Sue Pockett</div><div>Paavo Pylkkanen</div><div>Allan Snyder</div><div>Jack Tuszynski</div><div>W. Jamie Tyler</div><div>Pim Von Lommel</div><div>Eric Wasserman</div><div>and others</div><div><br></div><div>Special Pre-Conference Workshop</div><div>Deepak Chopra Vedic approaches to consciousness</div><div>Monday May 2, 2011</div><div><br></div><div>Sessions, Themes and Speakers</div><div><br></div><div>1) Brain fields and coherence: Evidence and theory suggest brain electromagnetic</div><div>fields and large scale coherent potentials, ignitions and avalanches correlate</div><div>with consciousness and feed!
back on neuronal activities, bolstering longstanding</div><div!>electro
magnetic field theories of consciousness.</div!></div><div><br></div><div>David McCormick, Yale, Brain electric field feedback</div><div>Johnjoe McFadden, Surrey, Electromagnetic field theory of consciousness</div><div>Sue Pockett, Auckland, E-M field theory of consciousness</div><div><br></div><div>2) Transcranial therapy of mental states: New therapeutic modalities based on</div><div>brain stimulation aimed at conscious mental disorders include transcranial</div><div>electric and magnetic fields and ultrasound vibrations. Mechanisms and utility</div><div>in relation to consciousness and memory will be discussed.</div><div><br></div><div>Allan Snyder, Sydney, Transcranial Electric fields for memory enhancement</div><div>W. Jamie Tyler, Arizona State, Transcranial ultrasound for mental disorders</div><div>Eric Wasserman, NIH, Transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression</div><div><br></div><div>3) Neuronal computation and brain simulation: What systems, levels and specific<div>brain activities are critical for consciousness: axonal firings, dendritic</div><div>synchrony, macroscopic fields, complexity, intraneuronal processes, quantum</div><div>states? Will mapping the brain explain consciousness?</div><div><br></div><div>Germund Hesslow, Lund, Complex spike timing</div><div>Rafi Malach, Weizmann Institute, Neuronal ignitions</div><div><br></div><div>4) Anesthesia and consciousness: Anesthetic gases selectively erase</div><div>consciousness and block high frequency gamma synchrony EEG while sparing</div><div>non-conscious brain functions, acting by weak quantum forces in a distributed</div><div>array of post-synaptic proteins</div><div><br></div><div>Nicholas Franks, Imperial College London, Anesthetic sites of action</div><div>Stuart Hameroff, Arizona, Hydrophobic quantum pockets in dendritic proteins</div><div>Anthony Hudetz, MC Wisconsin, Anesthetics and gamma synchrony</div><div><br></div><div>5) Quantum biology: The role of quantum phy!
sics in consciousness has been</div><div>discounted by the ass!
umption
that the biological brain is too warm and wet.</div><div>But quantum coherence, entanglement and ballistic conductance have now been</div><div>recognized in warm photosynthesis, DNA and microtubules.</div><div><br></div><div>Anirban Bandyopadhyay, Tsukuba, Ballistic conductance in microtubules</div><div>Jack Tuszynski, Alberta, Microtubule information processing capabilities</div><div><br></div><div>6) Consciousness, reality and the universe: Does the conscious observer collapse</div><div>the wave function? Is consciousness an emergent property of complex computation,</div><div>or irreducible and intrinsically related to spacetime geometry? How did the</div><div>universe arise from nothingness? What is entanglement?</div><div><br></div><div>Menas Kafatos, Chapman University, The holographic universe</div><div>Leonard Mlodinow, CalTech, Grand design (with Stephen Hawking)</div><div>Paavo Pylkkanen, Helsinki, Bohm and the quantum universe</div><div><br></div><div>7) Time, prec!
ognition and consciousness: The Libet experiments and</div><div>parapsychology have long suggested backward time referral of subjective</div><div>conscious experience of hundreds of milliseconds in the brain. Now such effects</div><div>are seen in mainstream neuroscience. Can they be explained through quantum</div><div>physics?</div><div><br></div><div>Dick Bierman, Amsterdam, Pre-sentiment</div><div>Moran Cerf, NYU/UCLA, Pre-cognition in human brain neurons?</div><div><br></div><div>9) End-of-life brain activity: Recent clinical studies report a surge of</div><div>coherent, high frequency EEG at the time of human death, when neuronal</div><div>metabolic supplies are depleted. Historically, nearly all civilizations have</div><div>reported so-called near death experiences with remarkably consistent</div><div>phenomenology. Have brain monitors captured the correlate of near death</div><div>experiences?</div><div><br></div><div>Lakhmir Chawla, George Washington, End-of-life br!
ain activity</div><div>Pim von Lommel, Arnhem, Near death expe!
riences<
/div><div><br></div><div>9) Eastern philosophy, quantum physics and cosmology. Buddhism and Vedanta have</div><div>much in common with quantum physics and cosmology. Is consciousness inherent in</div><div>the universe?</div><div><br></div><div>Deepak Chopra, Chopra Center, Vedic approach to consciousness</div><div>Tarja Kallio-Tamminen, Helsinki, Quantum physics and Eastern philosophy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>In addition to Keynote and Plenary talks, the conference will feature</div><div>Pre-Conference Workshops, Concurrent Talks, Poster Sessions, Art/Tech</div><div>Demos, Social Events and Side Trips in the Stockholm tradition.</div><div><br></div><div>*Special Pre-Conference Workshop*</div><div>Deepak Chopra - Vedic approaches to consciousness</div><div>Monday May 2, 2011</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>TSC Stockholm 2011 Conference Abstract System will be available via the CCS</div><div>website after September 20. All Abstracts must be submitt!
ed via the online</div><div>system. Accepted abstracts will be included in the conference program book</div><div>and posted online.</div><div><br></div><div>Schedule of Deadlines:</div><div>Abstracts Due November 15</div><div>Decisions December 20</div><div>Registration January 5</div><div>Final Edits February 15</div><div><br></div><div>Pre-Conference Workshop Proposals:</div><div>Proposals (500 words or less) should be sent to: <a href="mailto:center@email.arizona.edu">center@email.arizona.edu</a> no</div><div>later than October 25 (notifications by November 15)</div><div>Workshops will be held in 4 hour sessions on Sunday May 1 and Monday May 2</div><div><br></div><div>Sponsors</div><div>Perfjell Wellness Center</div><div>Center for Consciousness Studies, University of Arizona</div><div>Mind Event SA</div><div>Chopra Foundation</div><div>Agora for Biosystems</div><div><br></div><div>Organi!
zing Committee</div><div>Stuart Hameroff (University of Arizon!
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<div>Paavo Pylkkanen (University of Helsinki)</div><div>Christer Perfjell (Perfjell Wellness Center, Mind Event SA)</div><div>Deepak Chopra (Chopra Center)</div><div>Adrian Parker (University of Gothenburg)</div><div>Hans Liljenstrom (Stockholm University, Agora for Biosystems)</div><div>Annekatrine Puhle (University of Gothenburg)</div><div>Abi Behar-Montefiore (University of Arizona)</div><div><br></div><div><div>Arlene 'Abi' Behar-Montefiore | Manager</div><div>Center for Consciousness Studies </div><div>c/o Dept. of Anesthesiology </div><div>University Medical Center </div><div>POB 245114 </div><div>Tucson, AZ 85724-5114 USA </div><div>Office/DL 520-621-9317 | Cell 520-444-2813 | Fax: 520-626-5596</div><div><a href="mailto:center@u.arizona.edu">center@u.arizona.edu</a> | <a href="http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu">www.consciousness.arizona.edu</a></div></div></div><div><br></div><br></div></div></div><div>
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