Past Speakers in the Consciousness & Science Discussion Group
What is Niels Bohr’s Interpretation?
Ravi V. Gomatam, Director, Bhaktivedanta Institute
May 10, 2002
Libet’s Time Anomalies: A New Look at the Data and Interpretations
Benjamin Libet and Stanley Klein
February 18, 2000
Can Computers Think?
Robert E. Horn, Visiting Scholar, Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford
Russell McBride, Instructor in Philosophy, Alameda College
May 14, 1999
Quantum Mechanics and the Subject-Object Distinction
Edward MacKinnon, Professor of Philosophy (Retd.), California State University, Hayward
April 9, 1999
Can There be a Mathematics of the Mind?
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
March 5, 1999
Quantum Creativity
Amit Goswami, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of Oregon
December 4, 1998
The Puzzle of Consciousness
David Chalmers, Professor of Philosophy, U.C. Santa Cruz
December 6, 1996
The Quantum Paradigm and its Implications
George Weissmann, Ph.D., Berkeley
June 7, 1996
Psychophysics and Consciousness
Stanley A. Klein, Professor of Vision Science, School of Optometry, U. C. Berkeley
March 15, 1996
Vital Forces, Epigenetic Biology and Other Limits to Genetic Thinking in Biology and Medicine
Richard Strohman, Professor Emeritus, Cell & Molecular Biology, University of California, Berkeley
November 10, 1995
Science within Consciousness
Amit Goswami, Professor of Physics, Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene
September 15, 1995
Time, Consciousness, and the Quantum: Three Mysteries with a Common Origin?
Avshalom C. Elitzur, Department of Chemical Physics The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
July 28, 1995
Consciousness and Space
Colin McGinn, Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, New Jersey
March 17, 1995
Quantum Coherence/ Reduction in Brain Microtubules: A Model of Consciousness
Stuart Hameroff, M.D. Dept. of Anesthesiology, University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, Arizona
October 21, 1994
A Functional View of Consciousness
Bruce Bridgeman, Program in Expermental Psychology, U.C. Santa Cruz
September 9, 1994
Is Materialism Scientific? A Critique of the Mind/Brain Identity Theory
Roland Puccetti, Retired Prof. Emeritus of Philosophy, Dalhousie Univ., Canada
May 13, 1994
Elemental Mind: Human Consciousness and the New Physics
Nick Herbert, Physicist, Boulder Creek, California
February 25, 1994
Consciousness in the Sign Language of Cross-Fostered Chimpanzees
Beatrix T. Gardner, R. Allen Gardner, Departments of Psychology and Biology; Center for Advanced Study
University of Nevada, Reno
January 21, 1994
Panel Discussion on John Searle’s the Rediscovery of the Mind
Paul M. Churchland, Dept of Philosophy, U.C. San Diego
John Searle, Dept of Philosophy, U.C. Berkeley
Stanley Klein, School of Optometry, U.C.
Berkeley Bruce Mangan, Institute of Cognitive Science, U.C. Berkeley
October 1, 1993
What Children Can Tell Us About Consciousness
Alison Gopnik, Department of Psychology, Univ. of Calif., Berkeley
May 14, 1993
The Cortical Record of Learned Behaviors and Memories; Ontogeny of Complex Human Behaviors
Michael M. Merzenich, Department of Neurosciences , Univ. of Calif., San Francisco
April 9, 1993
Consciousness as Reflection Space
Saul-Paul Sirag, PhD.
March 25, 1993
The Place of a Consciousness Metaphor in Science
Willis W. Harman, Institute of Noetic Sciences
January 8, 1993
What Makes a Mental State Conscious?
Fred Dretske, Philosophy Department, Stanford University
December 11, 1992
Role of Consciousness in Quantum Mechanics
Ravi V. Gomatam, Philospohy of Science, Bhaktivedanta Institute
November 13, 1992
The Poverty of Neurophilosophy
Gunther Stent, Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley
October 9, 1992
Alternatives to Molecular Mechanistic Thinking in Biology and Cancer
Harry Rubin, D.V.M., Dept. of Cell and Developmental Biology, Univ. of California, Berkeley
September 24, 1992
Idealist Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, the Mind-Body Problem, and the Nature of the Self
Amit Goswami, Department of Physics, University of Oregon
August 14, 1992
A Panel Discussion on Daniel Dennett’s Book: “Consciousness Explained”
Panelists: Michael Fehling, Laboratory for Intelligent Systems, Stanford University
Bruce Mangan, Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California at Berkeley
Richard Thompson, Mathematical Biology, Bhaktivedanta Institute
Bernard Baars, Cognitive Psychology, Wright Institute, Berkeley
June 19,1992
A biological perspective on consciousness and perception
Walter J. Freeman, M.D., Dept. of Molecular and Cell Biology, U.C. Berkeley
March 13, 1992
The Representation of Global Coherence in Consciousness
Bruce Mangan, Institute of Cognitive Studies, University of California at Berkeley
February 14, 1992
The Rheomode of Language of David Bohm: An Alternative Perspective on Consciousness and Cognition
Maxim I. Stamenov, Ph.D., Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
December 13, 1991
Lucid dreaming: Psychophysiological studies of Consciousness During REM Sleep
Stephen LaBerge, The Lucidity Institute, Stanford, CA
November 8, 1991
Computation and Mind
Hans J. Bremermann, Prof. Emeritus, Biophysics and Mathematics, U.C. Berkeley, CA
October 11, 1991
What a theory of ordinary states of consciousness might suggest about higher states
Bernard J. Baars, The Wright Institute, Berkeley, CA
September 13, 1991
Time in Physics and Metaphysics
(i) Time in physics Jean Burns, Ph.D., Consciousness Research, San Leandro
(ii) Time in eastern metaphysics Ravi V. Gomatam, Philosophy of Science, Bhaktivedanta Institute
August 9, 1991
Intracranial Evidence for Associative Activation in Human Hippocampus
Gary Heit, M.D., Ph.D., Stanford University
May 10, 1991
Questions we can ask about the relationship of consciousness and the physical world
Jean Burns, Ph.D., Consciousness Research, San Leandro, California
April 12, 1991
The Cerebral ‘time-on’ Theory for Conscious and Unconscious Mental Functions
Benjamin Libet, Dept. of Physiology, U.C. San Francisco
March 8, 1991
Hard Evidences for Mind/Brain Interaction
Richard L. Thompson, Mathematical Biology, Bhaktivedanta Institute
February 8, 1991
Healing, Holography and the Body/Mind Experience
Robert Marrone, Psychology, C.S.U. Sacramento
January 11, 1991
Brain and Consciousness
John R. Smythies, M.D., Institute of Neurology, Univ. of London
December 14, 1990
Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence
Ravi V. Gomatam, Philosophy of Science, Bhaktivedanta Institute
November 9, 1990
Basic Requirements for a Science of Consciousness
Joe Kamiya, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute, Univ. of Calif., San Francisco
October 12, 1990
Quantum Mechanics and the Mind/Brain Connection
Henry Stapp, Department of Physics, U.C., Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley Lab.
September 14, 1990
