events

upcoming events

Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness Events

See the Center’s website.

past events

Center for Mind, Brain and Consciousness Events

Annual conferences

• The Modularity of Perception (December2012)
• The Brain Mapping Initiatives (December 2013)
• Measuring Borderline States of Consciousness (October 2014)
• Is the Brain Bayesian? (December 2015)
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (October 2016)
• Animal Consciousness (November 2017)

Debates:

• Does Cognition Affect Perception? (December 2014)
• Do Neuroscience and Psychology Have Moral Implications? (March 2015)
• Do Mirror Neurons Explain Anything? (September 2015)
• Can Neuroscience Help Us Understand Art? (December 2015)
• Are There Innate Concepts? (February 2016)
• Do Replication Projects Cast Coubt on many Published Studies in Psychology? (September 2016)
• Is There Unconscious Perception? (April 2017)
• Does AI Need More Innate Machinery? (October 2017)
• Does Hierarchical Predictive Coding Explain Perception? (May 2018)

Other Past Events

There’s a full list of the 50-odd conferences I’ve organized toward the end of my CV. For details on many of them, see the websites of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, the ANU Centre for Consciousness, the Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies. There are photos of many events in the photo gallery.

Two notable past events with information stored on this site are:

• NEH Institute on Consciousness and Intentionality (Santa Cruz, June-August 2002)
• Panpsychism on the Reef (Lady Elliot Island, July 2012)