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From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 1:20 PM To: Hameroff, Stuart R - (hameroff) Subject: Re: Re: Budget On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 3:18=PM Hameroff, Stuart R - (hameroff) < <mailto > wrote: Thanks! The conference program as it was* in Shanghai=C2 is still up at http://www.consciousness.arizona.edu=br class="gmail_msg"> Most speakers are coming with us, and we've land=d at the Hyatt Regency La Jolla. Here's the scorecard and draft of the next announcement,=below, which will go out in the next couple days. T=e list is for Plenary speakers, and most of our Concurrent talk, poster, e=hibit and poster presenter people are coming also. Plus there's a=lot of talent at UCSD and elsewhere. <=r class="gmail_msg"> l=189;ve attached a possible new logo. What do you think? Its a bit =A0goofy, but I like it. <=r class="gmail_msg"> Chomsky </=ont>didn't want to fly to Sh=nghai but we taped an interview with him when he was in Tucson. Now we'=re trying to get him live. M=ch appreciated!! s=C2 EFTA_R1_01900339 EFTA02655311 The S=ience of Consciousness San Diego June 5-10, 2017 Hyatt Regency La J=lla sponsored by The Center for Con=ciousness Studies, The University of Arizona The C=nter for Consciousness Science, The University of Michigan The Penrose Instit=te, La Jolla, Oxford, London ?UCSD Confirmed Ple=ary Speakers Sir Roger Penrosec=r class="gmail_msg"> James Tagg Xu Yingjin Travis Craddock Ivette Fuentes Marom Biksom Ted Gibson Georg Northoff Thomas Bever Evalina Fedorenkoc=r class="gmail_msg"> Deepak Chopra ?Peter Fenwick Michael Rohan 2 EFTA_R1_01900340 EFTA02655312 Marvin Berman *Noam Chomsky Jack Tuszynski Stuart Hameroff Bruce Damer=/font> Hedda Hassel Morch=br class="gmail_msg"> Jaipai Dai Erik Viierre Anirban Bandyopadh=ay ???waiting to hear=from John Searle Ben Goe=tzel Huang Xiang Zhang Hongxun Mathew Fisher Zhemming Philip Zh=i John JB Allen Nai Ding Leon Chua Robert Lawrence Ku=n Hengwei Li Miri Albahiri Elaine Chew Exhibits =oncurrents Demos 3 EFTA_R1_01900341 EFTA02655313 Posters Workshops</ront> Musical entertainm=nt - Dorian Electra and the Electrodes From: jeffrey E. <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2017 3:27 AM <=iv style="color:rgb(33,33,33)" class="gmail_msg"> To: Hameroff, Stuart R - (hameroff) Subject: Re: who are the speakers and what is the cost. =C2 Im in for at least 50k, before knowing anyhing On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:17 PM, Hame=off, Stuart R - (hameroff) < <mailto »</=pan> wrote: We organized an awesome program, the best e=er really. TSC, The Science of Consciousness, 2017 in Shanghai.=br class="gmail_msg"> We (CCS, Center for Consciousness Studies) had put o=t 35 to 50k for speakers (Including 9k for Roger Penrose business class fr=m London) not to mention tons of work from our side. per year for 5 years to co=laborate on conferences and share logos, IP etc. for mutual events. <=span>First payment 10Ok=C2 was to be March 1. Didn't happen. <=r class="gmail_msg"> I=stead, they sent a contract demanding exclusive IP rights for 20 yea=s in exchange for 150k per conference we organized (we'd make that muc= per conference anyway, so essentially they were offering nothing for excl=sive IP rights for 20 years). They said we needed to sign by midnight or they woul= break off relations with us. It was a weekend, University lawyers unavail=ble. <=r class="gmail_msg"> I showed the co=tract to my fiancé Betsy Bigbee (you met her at your place)=who isn't a lawy=r but has 10 years experience in contract law for some companies and real =state work. When her name appeared on the emails, 4 EFTA_R1_01900342 EFTA02655314 they went ballistic and said she had no right to be involved in any w=y. We pointed out to them that their own contract said CCS could hire and =mploy anyone they wanted. They then were extremely, disgustingly=C2 rude to her. I said we would=not sign, and they needed to apologize. They didn&=39;t, their deadline passed, and they wrote to all our spea=ers and registrants with their own TSC conference (Technology, Scienc= and Consciousness) logo, already in hand, inviting them and =A0asking for credit card and bank account information in an open email. They carefully avoided offering support for tr=vel and lodging as we had promised our speakers. When we said we'd move to =nother venue in Shanghai, they said our permit would be blocked by their=C2 government connections. The Woodenfish =onference was something Gino tried to tag onto our conference which would =ave been OK except they advertised all our speakers without asking them, o= us (who would have paid their expenses). So we decided t= get out of town and regroup in San Diego, fortuitously where the Penrose =nstitute will be formed. Roger had never been to China and was looking for=ard to it. We didn't do this to facilitate the Institute, but it =orked out well to have such a fallback. See attached. Gino denies any=C2 knowledge but he's been involved the whole time in some way.=He's pissed at me cause I wouldn't let him give a plenary tal=, but lye heard him speak many times and he's terrible. When we w=re supposedly organizing the conference last December he only wanted to talk about his ancillary project=, not the conference itself, and walked out of our meetings=C2 several times. Basically, they=tried to pull a hostile takeover. Or else were just complet=ly stupid and misguided. Or both. Ask James Tagg his opinion. Most of the =AOkey speakers are coming to San Diego and there are a lot of great speake=s available there. We're finalizing on a site, and have several h=tels available. Gonna be awesome, more science, less BS. Wanna help? 5 EFTA_R1_01900343 EFTA02655315 Stuart</=> From: je=frey E. <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]» Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 1:41 PM To: Hameroff, Stuart R - (hameroff) Subject: did it get resolved. . what is y=ur side please =ote The information contained in this communication is=br class="gmail_msg"> confidential, may be attorney-client privileged, may 6 EFTA_R1_01900344 EFTA02655316 the use of the addressee. 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