Colloquiums

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Colloquiums on Consciousness and Science

Since 1990, this colloquium has provided the opportunity for students and research scholars from the San Francisco Bay Area campuses to assemble together and hear from eminent scholars on the latest research in the growing field of consciousness studies. The presentations have been made from established academic disciplines involved in the scientific study of consciousness such as cognitive science, artificial intelligence, psychology, neurosciences, physics, biology, philosophy etc. We have also arranged these meetings to serve as an open forum for the generation of innovative ideas conducive to the development of this field while maintaining rigorous academic standards.The meetings started immediately in the wake of an international conference organized by the institute on The Study of Consciousness Within Science in San Francisco in 1990. The meetings have been held at the University of California, San Francisco since then. Participants come from all over the San Francisco Bay Area. Some enthusiasts have occasionally come from as far as away as Oregon. They enjoy the lecture for one hour and then engage in a formal question answer session for another hour. A half hour social preceding the function also provides ample opportunity for informal discussions.Past speakers include Henry Stapp, Joe Kamiya, Amit Goswami, Nick Herbert, Ravi Gomatam, Benjamin Libet, Walter Freeman, Gunther Stent, John Smythies, Bruce Bridgeman, John Searle, Fred Dretske, Colin McGinn, David Chalmers and Stanley Klein. A veritable who-is-who of researchers in this fast emerging new field.

Audio tapes from past meetings are available on request.

Past Speakers in the Consciousness & Science Discussion Group What is Niels Bohr’s Interpretation? Ravi V. Gomatam, Director, Bhaktivedanta InstituteMay 10, 2002 Libet’s Time Anomalies: A New Look at the Data and Interpretations Benjamin Libet and Stanley KleinFebruary 18, 2000 Can Computers Think? Robert E. Horn, Visiting Scholar, Center for […]

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CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE Discussion Group December 4, 1998 Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute* Speaker: Amit Goswami, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Oregon Abstract: Quantum physics enables us to set the proper context of our creativity — both inner and outer. I will discuss how consciousness engages in quantum creativity and […]

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Quantum Creativity

CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE Discussion Group March 5, 1999 Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute* Speaker: Prof. Keith Devlin, Dean of the School of Science, St Mary’s College, Moraga; Senior Researcher, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University Abstract: Since the time of the ancient Greeks, mathematicians have made […]

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Can There be a Mathematics of the Mind?

CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE Discussion Group April 9, 1999 Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute* Speaker: Edward MacKinnon, Professor of Philosophy (Retd.), California State University, Hayward Abstract: Niels Bohr was the dominant figure in the mid-1920s discussions that led to the Copenhagen interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. He insisted that the developments in […]

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Quantum Mechanics and the Subject-Object Distinction

CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE Discussion Group May 14, 1999 Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute* Speakers: Robert E. Horn, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford Russell McBride, Instructor in Philosophy, Alameda College Abstract: One of the great debates of the last 50 years has been over the […]

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Can Computers Think?

CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE Discussion Group February 18, 2000 Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute* Speaker: Benjamin Libet, UCSF, Department of Physiology Abstract: How do our experimentally based findings affect views of how subjective experience and brain events are interrelated? Does discovery of subjective referral of sensations backwards in time imply backward […]

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Libet’s Time Anomalies: A New Look at the Data and …

CONSCIOUSNESS AND SCIENCE Discussion Group May 10, 2002 Sponsored by the Bhaktivedanta Institute* Speaker: Ravi V. Gomatam, Director, Bhaktivedanta Institute Comments by: Prof. Edward Mackinnon, (Retd.) Prof. of Philosophy, Cal State, Hayward and a well-known Bohr scholar. Abstract: A central tenet, common to the (various strands of the) so-called Copenhagen […]

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