TSC 2017 SAN DIEGO
The latest Science of Consciousness conference was held at the Hyatt Regency, La Jolla, San Diego, California from June 5-10.
As always, TSC featured the very best of plenary talks, concurrents, pre-conference workshops, parties and the legendary poetry slam. And if you were unable to be there in person, be sure to watch our own daily show, Consciousness Central with Nick Day. Plenary highlights included: Can Machines be Conscious? Sir Roger Penrose, Oxford University Joscha Bach, Harvard University Hartmut Neven, Google Language and Consciousness Noam Chomsky, MIT Tom Bever, University of Arizona Michael Spivey, UC Merced Biophysics 1 - Memory, Spin and Anesthesia Matthew Fisher, UC Santa Barbara Travis Craddock, Nova Southeastern Physics, Cosmology and Consciousness Ivette Fuentes, University of Nottingham Brian Keating, UC-San Diego James Tagg, Cengine, The Penrose Institute Music and the Brain Elaine Chew, St Mary's University London Scott Makeig, UC-San Diego Neuroscience and Consciousness Stephen Grossberg, Boston University Georg Northoff, University of Ottawa Daniel Sheehan, UC-San Diego Peter Fenwick, University College, London Lakhmir Chawla, George Washington University Biophysics - Memristors in the Brain? Leon Chua, UC-San Francisco Jack Tuszynski, University of Alberta Neuroscience and Consciousness Gentry Patrick, UC-San Diego VS Ramachandran, UC-San Diego Charles Stevens, Salk Institute, UC-San Diego Vibrations, Resonance and Consciousness Anirban Bandyopadhyay, NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan Jiapai Dai, South Central University, China Erik Viirre, UC-San Diego Eastern Philosophy Yingjin Xu, Fudan University, China Deepak Chopra, Chopra Foundation, UC-San Diego Origin and Evolution of Life and Consciousness Bruce Damer, UC Santa Cruz Alysson Muotri, UC-San Diego Stuart Hameroff, University of Arizona
NEXT TSCSee you back in Tucson in 2018!
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ABOUT TSCThe Science of Consciousness conferences (formerly Toward a Science of Consciousness ) are the pre-eminent world gatherings on all approaches to the profound and fundamental question of how the brain produces conscious experience, a question which addresses who we are, the nature of reality and our place in the universe.
More details: The Center for Consciousness Studies (CCS). 
TSC 2016 IN THE NEWSNEW YORK TIMES
"Science of Consciousness Conference Is Carnival of the Mind" by George Johnson SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN "Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 1 "Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 2 "Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 3 "Dispatch from the Desert of Consciousness Research" Part 4 by John Horgan |
