Concurrent Sessions
(30-minute sessions: 20-minute talk, 10-minute discussion)
Day 1 | Day 3

Day 2 | Friday 12th June
Concurrent 6: Introspection, Attention, Self-Consciounsess
14:30–17:00

A defense of perceptual accounts of pain
Verena Gottschling
Introspection and Inference
Nicholas Silins
Transparency, Represenation and Penetrative Attention
Kranti Saran
What’s Not Wrong with Intrinsicalism?
Jerry Yang
Beyond the Self-Representational Theory of Consciousness
Zhihua Yao
Anamorphosis and Consciousness
Zoltan Veres

Concurrent 7: Neurobiological, Models and Theories
14:30–17:00
A Brain Basis for Transforming Consciousness with Mind-Body Bridging
Stanley Block
Seeing the invisible: The scope and limits of unconscious processing in binocular rivalry
Zhicheng Lin
Neocortical Strong Loops: A framework for consciousness?
Julien Vezoli
Unconscious Intentional Action and Wu-Wei: Rethinking the Evidence for the Somatic Marker Hypothesis
Marshall Willman
Stinking Consciousness!
Benjamin Young
Concurrent 8: Language, Reasoning and Emotion
14:30–17:00

The Phenomenon of Metaphor Creation: subjective Experience and Personal Meaning at the Moment of Metaphorical Utterance
Mei-Yan Chiang
Can ToM Be Prior To Language?
Navneet Chopra
Neural Correlates of the Typicality Effect in a Deductive Reasoning Task
Li Hong
Artificial Self Based On Collective Mind - Using Common Sense and Emotions Web-mining for Ethically Correct Behaviors
Rafal Rzepka
Does automatic affective processing to priming pictures have influence on concreteness effects in the target words recognition?
Qin Zhang

Concurrent 9: Physics of Consciousness
14:30–17:00
Our Entanglement with Light’s Consciousness: How physics supports our conscious role in the vast electromagnetic spectrum
Thomas Baumann
Taking Whitehead Seriously in Relativistic QFT and Qualitative Consciousness
Jesse Bettinger
Quantum Mechanics and the Mind
Casey Blood
Quantum tunneling models for Biological Systems
Masayuki Hirafugi
Consciousness and Subconsciousness From a Physicist’s Point of View
Wlodzimierz Klonowski

Concurrent 10: Technology, Art and Media
14:30–17:00

New Hitch Haiku: an Interactive Renku Poem Composition Supporting Tool applied for Sightseeing Navigation system
Naoko Tosa
Las Meninas, depicting HOT's, SOMTs and much more
Uziel Awret
Subjectivising sound: Cognition and the soundscape in contemporary Hong Kong Cinema
Gary Bettinson
Consciousness, Durgs and the Internet
Omelia Corazza
Help, My Parents are Gutenborgs!
Jan Sleutels

*Program may be subjected to change.

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