The Science of Consciousness

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The Science of Consciousness (TSC; formerly Toward a Science of Consciousness) is an international academic conference that has been held biannually since 1994. It is organized by the Center for Consciousness Studies of the University of Arizona. Alternate conferences are held in Arizona (either Tucson or Phoenix), and the others in locations worldwide. The conference is devoted exclusively to the investigation of consciousness. [1]

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Associated people

The main organizer is Stuart Hameroff, an anestheologist and the director of the center that hosts the conference. One of the speakers at the first conference, David Chalmers, had co-organized some of the following ones, until the event became too far away from the scientific mainstream. [2]

Conference books

Three books published by MIT Press have resulted from the conference. [3] [4] [5]

John Benjamins published a book containing selected proceedings from TSC 1999. [6]

Independent academic coverage

Media coverage

Chapter 8 of John Horgan's book The Undiscovered Mind is entirely devoted to his experiences at the first (1994) TSC conference. [12]

In The New York Times , George Johnson wrote about the 2016 conference that "wild speculations and carnivalesque pseudoscience were juxtaposed with sober sessions". [13]

The conference and its main organizers were the subject of a long feature in June 2018, first in the Chronicle of Higher Education , and re-published in The Guardian . Tom Bartlett concluded that the conference was "more or less the Stuart [Hameroff] Show. He decides who will and who will not present. [...] Some consciousness researchers believe that the whole shindig has gone off the rails, that it’s seriously damaging the field of consciousness studies, and that it should be shut down." [14]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Consciousness". Stanford University. Retrieved 2014-01-13.
  2. ↑ Bartlett, Tom (19 June 2018). "Out of their minds: wild ideas at the 'Coachella of consciousness'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
  3. ↑ Hameroff, S; et al., eds. (1996). Toward a Science of Consciousness - The First Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press. ISBN   9780262082495.
  4. ↑ Hameroff, S; et al., eds. (1998). Toward a Science of Consciousness II - The Second Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press. ISBN   9780262082624.
  5. ↑ Hameroff, S; et al., eds. (1999). Toward a Science of Consciousness III - The Third Tucson Discussions and Debates. MIT Press. ISBN   9780262581813.
  6. ↑ Kunio, Y; et al., eds. (2002). No Matter, Never Mind - Proceedings of Toward a Science of Consciousness: Fundamental approaches, Tokyo 1999 . John Benjamins Publishing. ISBN   978-9027251534. See: "No Matter, Never Mind" . Retrieved 2014-01-12.
  7. ↑ This journal appears in both print ( ISSN   0308-0188) and online ( ISSN   1743-2790)."Review of conference by J. Gray". Interdisciplinary Science Reviews. 1999. doi:10.1179/030801899678911.
  8. ↑ "Toward a Science of Consciousness (Review)". Leonardo. 36 (1): 89–90. February 2003. doi:10.1162/leon.2003.36.1.89. S2CID   192888250. See: "Review of conference by Michael Punt" . Retrieved 2014-01-12.
  9. ↑ "Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011: The Greatest Show on Earth". Journal of Consciousness Exploration & Research. 2 (4): 656–665. June 2011. See: Holvenstot, Christopher. "TSC 2011: The Greatest Show on Earth" . Retrieved 2014-01-27.
  10. ↑ "A Thousand Flowers". Journal of Consciousness Studies. 19 (7–8): 247–70. July–August 2012.
  11. ↑ Bricklin, Jonathan (2016-09-21). "Science and Consciousness Just Wed — Should this Union Be Annulled?". Imprint Academic. Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  12. ↑ Horgan, John (2000). The Undiscovered Mind – How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation . New York: Free Press. ISBN   978-0684865782.
  13. ↑ Johnson, George (2016-05-16). "Science of Consciousness Conference Is Carnival of the Mind". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2024-08-03.
  14. ↑ Bartlett, Tom (19 June 2018). "Out of their minds: wild ideas at the 'Coachella of consciousness'". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 June 2018.
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