External Event -
21st
to 22nd Jun 2018
How does our subjective experience emerge from the brain? How does consciousness relate to the physical world? These age-old, deep questions are now at last being addressed directly and broadly by neuroscience and will become crucial in the decades to come.
The spectrum of consciousness-related conundrums is rapidly expanding: we are saving islands of human brain from devastating injuries, growing cerebral organoids in a vat, and building intelligent machines that perform faster and better than any healthy subject, just to mention a few.
Where does consciousness arise? Where is the boundary between insentient matter and a spark of subjectivity? Society needs to be scientifically and culturally prepared to face these emerging questions.
To do so, an approach with the broadest scope is needed: diverse theoretical frameworks, brain anatomy, physiology, and chemistry across scales and species, detailed and large-scale computer simulations, deep learning, neuromorphic computing, robotics, clinical neurology, anaesthesiology, psychology, behavioural, computational, and philosophical analysis must interact and blend on a single infrastructure.
These ingredients are naturally present in the Human Brain Project, and this workshop, stirred by world-leading scholars in the field, is where they come together for the first time in this multidisciplinary setting.
Take advantage of the early registration fee and save up to €30 till May 3rd 2018! To register please click here.
Programme
09.00-09.20 |
Welcome /Intro
Johan Storm (Chair): Intro/overview: consciousness & HBP |
09.20-13.00 |
Fundamental aspects, including theories of consciousness |
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Moderators: |
Johan Storm & Kathinka Evers |
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09.20 |
Kathinka Evers |
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09.50 |
Ned Block |
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10.20 |
David Chalmers |
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10.50 |
Coffee break |
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11.10 |
Larissa Albantakis |
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11.40 |
Jean-Pierre Changeux (HBP) |
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12.10-13.00 |
Discussion |
13.00-14.00 |
Lunch & Posters |
14.00-14.40 |
Integrated consciousness research in HBP
Marcello Massimini |
15.00-18.00 |
Neurobiological mechanisms and correlates of consciousness |
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Moderators: |
Marcello Massimi & Mavi Sánchez |
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15.00 |
Cyriel Pennartz |
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15.30 |
Catherine Tallon-Baudry |
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16.00 |
Wolf Singer |
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16.30 |
Coffee break + exhibit/demo |
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17.00 |
Nao Tsuchiya |
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17.30 |
Rodolfo Llinas |
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18.00-18.50 |
Discussion |
18.50-19.50 |
Flash talks by young HBP researchers |
20.30 |
Buffet-dinner |
09.00-12.30 |
Models, simulations, and emulation of consciousness |
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Moderators: |
Cyriel Pennartz & Alain Destexhe |
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09.00 |
Alain Destexhe |
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09.25 |
Pieter R. Roelfsema |
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09.50 |
Karl Friston |
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10.20 |
Coffee break |
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10.40 |
Sean Hill |
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11.10 |
Fabrice Wendling |
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11.40-12.30 |
Discussion |
12.30-13.00 |
Flash talks by young researchers |
13.00-14.00 |
Lunch & posters |
+ exhibit/demo + ROBOT presentations by Tony Prescott/Martin Pearson |
14.00-17.40 |
Clinical, ethical, and societal implications of consciousness research |
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Moderators: |
Steven Laureys & Olivia Gosseries |
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14.00 |
Olivia Gosseries |
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14.30 |
Niko Schiff |
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15.00 |
Emery Brown |
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15.30 |
Coffee break + exhibit/demo |
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15.50 |
Melanie Wilke |
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16.20 |
Olaf Blanke |
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16.50-17.40 |
Discussion |
17.40–18.40 |
Roundtable discussion |
18.40-19.10 |
Press conference |
19.30–20.15 |
Public lecture HBP member |
For more information on this conference please visit http://hbp-ic.com/