Concurrent Sessions
(30-minute sessions: 20-minute talk, 10-minute discussion)
Day 1 | Day 2

Day 3 | Saturday 13th June
Concurrent 11: Ontological and Conceptual Foundations
14:30–16:00

The Logic of Phenomenology Instead of the Metaphysics of Phenomenality
S. Benjamin
Fink
The Metaphysics of Phenomenal Experience
Carsten Hansen
Thoughts that are A-Conscious but not P-Conscious
Kelly Inglis

16:00–16:30 Break
16:30–18:00
Perceptual Modalities: Modes of Presentation or Modes of Action?
Marek McGann
Kant and Jung on the Unconscious Patterning Power of the Mind
Stephen Palmquist
Taking Consciousness Seriously
Andrew Westcombe
Concurrent 12: First Person Neuroscience
14:30–16:00 Human time-sense and its neurological disturbances
Amaldo Benini
Research into subjective well-being, creativity, and embodied mind, using a mobile phone-camera with an experience sampling method
John Haworth
Contra Husserl, body supports spiritual awareness. How? Flesh of the world in Tantrik meditation
Olga Louchakova
16:00–16:30 Break
16:30–18:00

Does the brain produce conscious experience?
Marek B Majorek
The Conscious Experience: Consciousness Quotient (CQ) and Brazdau CQ Inventory (BCQI)
Ovidiu Brazdau
Enacting the Experience of Space Through Technological Mediation: Towards and Enactive (and Externalist) Model of Spatial Consciousness
Charles Lenay

Concurrent 13: Development of Consciousness
14:30–16:00

The Design and Development of Interactive Therapy System for Children with Autism - With Emphasis on the Application of Virtual Reality and Tangible Interaction
Min-Young Choi
Consciousness: is it wordless?
Nevia Dolcini
Scherzo: Relieving Anxiety for Children During an M.R.I. Scan via Interactive Audio Augmentation
Chad Eby

16:00–16:30 Break
16:30–18:00

Explore the Impact of Multiple Representations of Thermal Expansion Conceptions on High School Students' Conceptual Change Process and Brain Process
Li-Yu Huang
Mindful Teaching: Towards A More Conscious Pedagogy
David Keiser
Transforming discriminate consciousness to pure consciousness to achieve complete mental health: a case report of contemplative neuro-scientific self inquiry
Wasantha Gunathunga

Concurrent 14: Phenomonology and Parapsychology
14:30–16:00 Multiple Phenomenologies of Postmodemism
Allan Combs
The Limit(s) of Consciousness as an Outcome of Polarity
Sander Wilkens
Robot Dreams: Requirements for Synthetic Phenomenology and Intersubjectivity
Robin Zebrowski
16:00–16:30 Break
16:30–18:00
Why a Turing Machine Cannot Remote View? – Expiring Functionality of Remote Viewing
Alexander Yakhnis
What Happens with Our Consciousness When Life is Over?
Ingrid Fredriksson
The Discovery of a Fundamental, Well-Structured and Pervasive Field While in an Altered State of Consciousness
Mokbel Shukri
Concurrent 15: East-West Approaches
14:30–16:00 “Consciousness” in Indian Psychology
Ramakrishna Rao
Taxonomy of Samadhi: Toward a Phenomenologically Informed Neurophenomenological Investigation
Merlin
Lucas
Quality, Substance, Action: Classical Indian Philosophical Theories of Consciousness
Roy Perrett
16:00–16:30 Break
16:30–18:00
Empathy, Breath, Art and the Somato-viscero-motor System
Ellen Esrock
Atomism and atelic conceptualization
Fabrice Bothereau
Ancient Chinese I-ching and Human Consciousness
Lily Seah

*Program may be subjected to change.

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