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From: Deepak Chopra Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 7:31 PM To: Jeff Epstein Subject: Fwd: [Sadhu Sanga] The Science of Consciousness 2017, San Diego, Final Program Announcement FYI <= style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"> Deepak Chopr= MD chttps://www.discoveri=gyourcosmicself.comk <https://www.disc=veringyourcosmicself.com/> [email protected] <mailto:Online_Sadhu_Sanga@goog=egroups.com> " <[email protected] Subject: ISadhu Sanga) The Science of Consciousness 2017,=San Diego, Final Program Announcement Reply-To: [email protected]= The=Science of Consciousness Jun= 5-10, 2017, La Jolla, California "To=have a glimpse of what consciousness is would be the scientific achievement=before which all others would pale." Wil=iam James EFTA_R1_01355530 EFTA02362596 'The S=ience of Consciousness' ('TSC') is an interdisciplinary conference on a=l aspects of the nature of conscious experience, awareness, feelings a=d existence. How does the brain produce consciousness? Is&nb=p;consciousness intrinsic to the universe, or an epiphenomenal illusion? How can =onsciousness causally affect brain processes? What are the best empiri=al theories? Do we have free will? How did life and consciousness=originate and evolve? What are the origins of moral and aesthetic values? How can we improve mental, physical and cognitive functio=? Can consciousness persist after bodily death, e.g. through 'uploadin=' to machines, or via mental processes tied to the natural world? Inform=l, intensive and interdisciplinary in a fun environment, the 24th annual&nb=p;TSC conference will consist of Plenary Sessions, Pre-Plenary Workshops, E=ening Concurrent Talk and Poster sessions, Technology and Art Exhibits, Social Events and Entertainment. &nb=p; For re=istration, hotel and other information see: http://www.consciousness.arizona=edu <http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu/> Ple=ary Program Tuesda= June 6, 2017 4=pan> PL1 2:00 to 4:10 pm Can=Machines Be Conscious? Sir=nbsp;Roger Penrose, Oxford, 'How=can Consciousness Arise within the Laws of Physics?' Jos=ha Bach, Harvard,='Consciousness as a Memory of Coordinating Attention: The Conductor Model o= Consciousness' Har=mut Neven, Google=, Quantum Al, 'Possible Roles of Quantum Effects and Subjective Experience i= Artificial Intelligence' Wednes=ay June 7, 2017 2 EFTA_R1_01355531 EFTA02362597 PL2 &n=sp;8:30 to 10:40am Lan=uage and Consciousness Noa= Chomsky, MIT, 'L=nguage and Unconscious Mental Acts' Tho=as Bever, U =rizona, 'Three Aspects of (Un)conscious Processing in Language and its=Normal Use' Mic=ael J Spivey, UC M=rced, 'Language, Consciousness and Embodied Cognition' PL3 11=10 am to 12:30 pm Bio=hysics 1- <=>Memory, Spin and Anesthesia Mat=hew Fisher, UC Sa=ta Barbara, 'Are We Quantum Computers, or Merely Clever Robots?' Tra=is Craddock, Nova=Southeastern U, 'A Unitary Mechanism of Anesthesia?: Altering Collective Os=illations in Microtubules' PL4&nb=p;2:00 to 4:10 pm Non=Invasive Brain Stimulation Mar=m Bikson, CCNY/CU=Y, 'Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Devices to Change Thought and Behav=or' Joh= Allen, Arizona,&=bsp;'Transcranial Ultrasound, Mood, and Resting State Network Connectivity'= Mar=in Berman, VieLig=t, 'Integrating Noninvasive Photobiomodulation and Neuromodulatio=' Mic=ael Rohan, Harvar=, 'The Effects of Low Field Magnetic Stimulation on Mood and Brain Fun=tion' Thursd=y June 8, 2017 PL58mb=p;8:30 to 10:40am Phy=ics, Cosmology and Consciousness Ive=te Fuentes, U Not=ingham, 'Gravity in the Quantum Lab' 3 EFTA_R1_01355532 EFTA02362598 Bri=n Keating, UCSD,&=bsp;'Conscious Cosmos' •=80QJames Tagg, C=ngine, Penrose Institute, 'Are Human Beings Computers?' PL6&nb=p;11:10 am to 12:30 pm Mus=c and the Brain</=pan> Ela=ne Chew, Queen Ma=y University London, 'Mind over Music Perception' Sco=t Makeig, UCSD,&n=spflvlind Over Consciousness?' </=pan> PL7 2:=0 to 3:30 pm Neu=oscience and Consciousness 1 Ste=hen Grossberg, Bo=ton U, 'The Varieties of Brain Resonances and the Conscious Experience= They Support' Geo=g Northoff, U Ott=wa, 'Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness' Friday= June 9, 2017 PL8&nb=p;8:30 to 10:40am Neu=oscience and Consciousness 2 - Anomalies Dan=el P. Sheehan, U S=n Diego, 'It's About Time: Experiments in Consciousness and Retrocausa=ion' Pet=r Fenwick, UC Lon=on, 'A Meditation Teacher Who Can 'Transmit' Subjective Light/Energylk=8B Lak=mir S. Chawla, Ge=rge Washington U, 'End-of-Life Brain Activity' PL9&nb=p;11:10 am to 12:30 pm Bio=hysics 2 - Memristors in the Brain? Leo= Chua, UCSF, ='Brains are Made of Memristors' Jac= A. Tuszynski, U A=berta, 'Microtubules as Subcellular Memristors' 4 EFTA_R1_01355533 EFTA02362599 PL10&n=sp;2:00 to 4:10 pm Neu=oscience and Consciousness 3 Gen=ry Patrick, UCSD,='Destruction as a Means of Remodeling: The Many Roles of Ubiquitin at the S=napse' VS R=machandran, UCSD,='Embodied Brains and Disembodied Minds' Cha=les F. Stevens, S=lk Institute, UCSD, 'The Evolutionary Brain Mechanisms That Underlie Consci=usness' Saturd=y, lune 10, 2017 PL11 9=00 to 11:10 am Vib=ations, Resonance and Consciousness Ani=ban Bandyopadhyay= NIMS, Tsukuba, 'Vibrational Frequencies of Biomaterials are the Key t= Integration of Information' liarei Dai, South Cen=ral University, China, 'Biophotonic Activities and Transmission in Relation=to Consciousness' Eri= Viirre, UCSD, 'A=ditory Vibrations and Frequencies: Sounds in Your Head' PL12 1=:40 am to 1:00 pm Eas=ern Philosophy Xu Y=ngjin, Fudan Univ=rsity, China, 'Contemporary Theories of Consciousness and Nishida's notion o= 'Basho" Dee=ak Chopra, Chopra=Foundation, 'Mind, Body, and Universe as Human Constructs' PL13 2=30 to 4:40 pm Ori=in and Evolution of Life and Consciousness Bru=e Darner, UC Santa=Cruz, 'The Origin of Life and Consciousness' 5 EFTA_R1_01355534 EFTA02362600 Aly=son R. Muotri, UC=D, 'Cerebral Organoids for Neurodevelopmental and Evolutionary Studie's&nbs=; Stu=rt Hameroff, U Ar=zona, 'The 'Quantum Pleasure Principle' - Did Life Evolve to Feel Good?'&nb=p; PRE=PLENARY WORKSHOPS (Included in the confe=ence registration) MONDAY MORNING WORKSHOPS June 5, 2017 - 9:00 am to 1:00 pm 1. DEI East-West Forum 1 &n=sp; =nbsp; &nbs=; <=b> (Dayalbagh Educational l=stitute, Agra, India) 2. Artificial Intelli=ence and Machine Consciousness (Tagg, Bach, Neven, Penr=se, Remmel, Verschure) 3. Tenniscentric = (Valladares) 4. Yoga and Meditatio= (Birch) MONDAY AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS =span style="font-familyf'> &nbs=; June 5, 2017 - 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm 1. DEI East-West Forum part 2 = &nb=p; &=bsp; 2. Brain Stimulation/Consciousness Technology &=bsp; (Bikson, Sanguinetti, Be=man, Rohan, Martin) 3. Resonance, Life and Consciousness &nbs=; &n=sp; (Schooler, Hunt, Bandyop=dhyay, Craddock, Grossberg, Chew) 4.&n=sp; Consciousness and the Arts =nbsp; &nbs=; &n=sp; (Day, Seifert, Kostiner,=Electra) 6 EFTA_R1_01355535 EFTA02362601 5. Consciousness Healing Initiative = &nb=p; (Jain, Guarneri, King, M=ehsam, Vieten) MONDAY EVENING PUBLIC LECTURE 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm Sir Roger Penrose&nbs=; &n=sp; =nbsp; =/span> Fashion, Faith and=Fantasy and the Big Questions in Modern Physics 30 minute walk, 8 minute=ride, simulcast to Hyatt Regency La Jolla=nbsp; TUESDAY MORNING WORKSHOPS = June 6, 2017 9:00 am t= 1:00 pm 1. a>Language and Consciousness (T. Bever, Chomsky, Spiv=y, O.Bever) 2. Deepak Chopra - 'The enlightened brain' 3. David Bohm Centennial &nbs=; &n=sp; </=pan> (Pylkkanen, Musser, Wall=czek) 4. Quantum Brain Biology &nbs=; &n=sp; ap> (Craddock, Tuszynski, Ha=eroff, Bandyopadhyay) CONCURRENT TALK PROGRAM 7 EFTA_R1_01355536 EFTA02362602 Tuesday, June 6, 2017 5:00 to 7:55 pm Cl: Dualism and Panpsychism Schriner, Gradowski, Liamas, Gaertner, Remler, Kuznetsov, Kent,=Kernion, Pylkkanen C2: Memory and Consci=usness Nakano, Hsin-ping Wu, Gottlieb,&n=sp;Heile, Anokhin, Fazekas, Loisi, Xiao-Lan Song=/b> C3: Artificial Intell=gence/Virtual Reality 1 Verschere, Lin</=pan>, Bezzubova, Gacke=bach, Leping Zha, Duan, Yang Liu, Elamrani C4: Consciousness and=Molecular Biology Woolf, Saluja, Sahni, Schiffer</=>, Baker, Poola, Jiang CS: Consciousness and=Models of Reality 1 Markan, Yan He, Keppler, =olaros, Gruber, Beichler, Andrews C6: Altered States of=Consciousness Lopez-Silva, Dolcini, Villanueva,=nbsp;Gerken, Polito, JK Arora, Tirumalai C7: Quantum Ontologie= 1 Globus, Rosseinsky, Rangarajan, Gaertner, AK Satsangi, Thomas, Prakash=/p> C8: Consciousness and=Social Interactions Olson, Mayhofer, Carrassi, <=>Di Pizzo, Gautam, Harrison, Lloyd&=bsp; Wednesday, June 7, 2017<=> 5:00 to 7:55 pm 0: Free Will and Int=ntionality Besedin, Munoz-Jimenez, Guery,&n=sp;Westcombe, MacNeill, Cea, Elliott=/b> C10: Complexity and Brain Organization Miyahara, Isler, Tetsuo, =ar Lev, Lahav, Maninder, Virmani C11: Language and Aut=sm Mizumoto, 0 Bever, Pensotti,&nb=p;Mertsalov, Bhatnagar, Rai, Powell=/span> C12: Consciousness an= Evolution 8 EFTA_R1_01355537 EFTA02362603 Fredriksson, Whiteley, Morrison,&=bsp;Bakker, Beran, Hamilton, Tirumalai &nbs=; C13: Meditation and C=nsciousness Ahuja, Katyal, Saran, Goldstein,&=bsp;Birch, Mishra, Willman C14: Consciousness an= Quantum Measurement McQueen, Kathpalia, Bhaumik, Roy, Cam=rgo-Perez, Gunji, Brophy, Gunji C15: Consciousness an= Models of Reality 2 Korotkov, Haoying Liu, Awret, Alessandrini, Goradia, Agarwal, Willman, Allsop C16: Vibrations, Reso=ance and Consciousness Roberts, Burgarella, Schooler,&nb=p;Hunt, Kent, Katkova, Safin, Pyari, Krishnanand= Friday, June 9, 2017 5:00 to 7:55 pm C17: Explanatory Gap and Intentionality Ebbers, Jansen, Choate, Black,</=> Ruggeri, Allsop, Jianfeng Li, Xinyu Wei, Ruggeri, Ting-An Lin=/span> C18: Neuroscience Top=cs Dinis-Pereira<=b>, Yu Feng, Clark, P=rsuh, Sanguinetti, Lei Zhang, Toropova, C19: Consciousness an= Unconscious Processes Deschepper=span style="font-family:">, Ginzburg, Six, <=>Stevenson, Gutman, Norman, Hedne</=pan> C20: Mind Body McKusick,<=pan style="font-family:"> Jain, Mruthinti, Muehsam, Vieten,&=bsp;Yijun Liu,Ying-Tung Lin C21: Artificial Intel=igence and Models of Reality=/p> Panov, Beck, Shirtz, Char=n, Singh, Ju Lee, Kanta Arora C22: Consciousness an= Models of Reality 3 Khabeev, Narayanan, Pyari, Jain,=/b> Cortel, Kim, Vallederes C23: Consciousness an= the Arts Day, Menshikova, Colbert, =Oberst, Kostiner, Malhotra, ldnani 9 EFTA_R1_01355538 EFTA02362604 C24: Quantum Ontologi=s 2 Hankey, Narayan, Rulin Xiu, Knox,=nbsp;Kohl, Blum, Green =/span> POS=ER SESSION 1 Wednesday, June 7, 7:00 to 10:00 pm Agarwal, Agarwal, Agarwal, Alakh, Azevedo,&n=sp;Bhasin, Bhasin, Bhat, Bhatnagar, Bommireddipalli, Buglo, Chellapilla, Datta, =orjup, Gupta, Gupta, Gupta, Jois, Kapoor, Kent,&nb=p;Khan, Khatkale, Khurana, Kumar, Markan, Mathur,Mathur, Misra, Mittal, Pahl,&=bsp;Parmar, Paul, Poudel, Prokash, Pyari, =Ramchandran, Rana, D. Saini, A. Saini, Sandhu Saravana, Sa=sangee, Satsangi, Satsangi, Satsangi, Saxena, Sharma,&=bsp;Mathur, Shivhare, Singh=/span>, Sinha, Srivastava, Sr=vastava, Srivastava, Sundaram, Swami, Swaroop, Q=80*Tiwari, Trivedi, Zadey &nb=p; POS=ER SESSION 2 Friday, June 9, 7:00 to 10:00 pm Aviv, Barbo=a, Barsotti, Bozorgi, Brito, Chen, Chiarella, Coelho,&n=sp;Cohly, Costa, Costa, Daneshfard, Davis, 0zhaber,&nbs=;Galikova, Graca, Guta, Hong, Kashyap, Kozyreva,&n=sp;Lee, Mathur,Melkikh, Pankovski, Patil, Peerally,&nbs=;Plotke, Salina, Sarfarazi, Six, Sood, Swami, Usvapelto, =Ventureyra, Vucolova, Wang, Williams, Wong, =egarac, Zhang, Zhu =nbsp; Art=Tech-Health Exhibits Wednes=ay and Friday 7:00-10:00 pm Paul Thomas, <=b>New Visual Languages and the Speculative Nat=re of the Quantum Universe Margaret Dolinsky, Creativity and its Mediation for Navig=ting between Reality and Virtual Reality Jiyun Park=span style="font-family:">, W[holejness - Scaling Consciousness/Cosmologi=s Through Geometry Pam Payneapan style="font-family:">, The Telenoetic Medium - Presentation of The Au=hor's Video Artwork, A Mnemonic Device to Facilitate Meditative, Noetic Sta=es of Consciousness Jens Pilegaard=/b>, Musings on Captured Moments 10 EFTA_R1_01355539 EFTA02362605 Naama Kostiner=/b>, Create Your Own Flow Jeanne Marie Sanguine=ti - Pac Man Line, Academy of Art, S=n Francisco, CA Mimi Loup Brown, Artist, Pasadena, CA Cyndi Sanguinetti, Artist, Pasadena, CA =/span> SCI=NCE AND TECHNOLOGY EXHIBITS Wednes=ay and Friday 7:00-10:00 pm =/span> Vielight Inc.<=b> Infrared Photomodulation=and Neurofeedback for Alzheimer's disease Marvin Berman<=b> Soterix Medical Transcranial Electrical S=imulation Abhishek Datta=/b> Roger Penrose Institu=e Creativity Inspiration/C=eativity Competition James Tagg, Erik Viir=e Mclean Hospital, Harv=rd Medical School Low Field Magnetic Stimu=ation Michael Rohan<=b> Arthur C. Clarke Cent=r at UCSD 11 EFTA_R1_01355540 EFTA02362606 Assembly Sheldon Brown<=b> University of Arizona Center for Consciousne=s Studies Transcranial ultrasound ('TUS') program<=p> Chris Chan, Betsy Bigbee, Stuart Hameroff, J=y Sanguinetti =/span> National Institute of=Material Science, Tsukuba, japan Visualizing microtubule i=formation processing Anirban Bandyopadhyay=/span> =/span> University of Alberta=/span> Unfolding misfolded prot=ins to treat neurodegenerative disease Jac= Tuszynski=/p> Wel=ness - Health &nb=p; Daily 7:00 - 8:00 am&=bsp; &n=sp; Mark Valladares, =TennisCentric Daily 6:30-7:30 am and 4=5 pm Beryl Bender Birch, <=span>Yoga and Meditation Chopra Centerab> You Are The Universe Wel=ness Space </=pan> &nb=p; Soc=al Events - badges required 12 EFTA_R1_01355541 EFTA02362607 &nb=p; Tuesday, June 6, 2017=/span> 7:00 to 10:00 pm<=p> Opening Reception&nbs=; Wednesday, June 7, 20=7 9:00 - 11:00 pm Club Consciousness 'QUALIATIK', 'Dorian E=ectra and the Electrodes' </=> Thursday, June 8, 201= 6:00 to 10:00 pm<=p> Conference Banquetes8ebsp; Advance registration req=ired $75• before May 25 Elaine Chew, Queen Ma=y University of London Friday, June 9, 2017<=span> 10:00 pm to midnight Club Consciousness Elaine Chew, Queen Ma=y University of London Scott Makeig - Brain M=sic Concert 'QUALIATIK', 'Dorian E=ectra and the Electrodes' Saturday, June 10, 2017 8:00 pm to ????</=> Poetry Slam, Talent S=ow, Finals: Creativity Competition 13 EFTA_R1_01355542 EFTA02362608 'End-of-Consciousness' Party</=> Spo=sored by The Center for Consciousness Studies, The U=iversity of Arizona ('TSC' - 'The Science of=Consciousness' conference series since 1994) The Center for Con=ciousness Science, The University of Michigan Quantum Gravity Research, L=s Angeles Alvin J. Clark FoundationcApan> The Roger Penrose Institute= La Jolla, California The Bhaumik Institute o= Theoretical Physics at UCLA (Mani Bhaumik Foundation) The Arthur C. Clarke Center=for Human Imagination, UCSD Dayalbagh Educational Insti=ute, Agra, India Con=erence Program Committee Stuart Hameroff (Chair),= Abi Behar-Montefiore, Be=sy Bigbee, James Tagg, Erik Viirre, Jay Sanguinetti, Paavo Pylkk=nen LIN=S REGISTER=/ PAYMENT SITE University o= Arizona https://eagle.sbs.arizona.edu/sc/ &nb=p; </=pan> WEBSITE 14 EFTA_R1_01355543 EFTA02362609 Center for C=NSCIOUSNESS STUDIES TSC 2017 La J=Ila - Conference [email protected]<=span> Contact: Abi Behar Montefiore =/span> IS SI #&=bsp; Fifth International Conference Science and Scientist - 2017 August 18-19, 2017 Nepal Pragya Pratisthan, Kathmandu, Nepal http://sc=iscs.org/conference/scienceandscientist/2017 <http://scsiscs.org/conference/scienceandscientist/2017> BHAKTI VEDANTA INSTITUTE Report Archives http://bviscs.org/reports Sponsorship and Donations for Vedanta and Science Dialogue:http://scienceandscientist.org/donate <http:=/scienceandscientist.org/donate> <=r> Reply to Gustavo Caetano-Anolles:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2016.1160191 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/=9420889.2016.1160191> Why Biology is Beyond Physical Sciences?: http://dx.doi.org/10.5923/j.als.20160601.03 <http://dx.doi.org/10.59=3/j.als.20160601.03> Life and consciousness — The Vedantic view: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.=015.1085138 <http://d=.doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2015.1085138> Harmonizer: http://sci=nceandscientist.org/harmonizer <http://scienceandscientist.org/harmonizer> Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture & Science Princeton, NJ, USA: http://bviscs.org Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute: http://scsi=cs.org <http://scsiscs.org> Darwin Under Siege: http:/=scienceandscientist.org/Darwin <http://scienceandscientist.org/Darwin> Sadhu-Sanga Blog: http://mahaprab=u.net/satsanga <http://mahaprabhu.net/satsanga> Contact: http://scsiscs.org/contact</=> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "S=dhu-Sanga Under the holy association of Spd. 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