Consciousness Workshop
Dates: 14-17 September 2016
Venue: Centre l’Oubradou, 83120 Plan de la Tour, France
Tel: +33 4 94 43 71 77
This is a closed workshop for the Investigators and post-docs of the AHRC RTS grant, with invited external participants. It is co-sponsored by the Centre l’Oubradou.
The subjective nature of our perceptual experiences seems to us to be central to our understanding of the world around us and of our own bodies. What it feels like to have a sensory experience seems to matter just as much as (or more than) the consequences of the experience, such as acting on the basis of the sensory information. But what does being aware add to what the brain does with information? Given the evidence that actions, memories and emotional reactions to sensory inputs can occur without conscious awareness of the information on which they are based, what role does awareness play? In this workshop we shall consider efforts by neuroscientists to identify the neural correlates of awareness, by cognitive and computational neuroscientists to assign a functional role for subjective states, and by philosophers to define the nature and significance of consciousness.
Workshop programme
Wednesday 14 September
Chair: Colin Blakemore
- 00-18.30
- 18:30 Opening reception and dinner
Thursday 15 September
Friday 16 September
Saturday 17 September
RTS participants
Colin Blakemore
Yi-Chuan Chen
Ophelia Deroy
Merle Fairhurst
Alisa Mandrigin
Fiona Macpherson
Matt Nudds
Barry Smith
Keith Wilson
Invited speakers and participants
Chris Frith
Stanislas Dehaene
Ian Phillips
Other participants
Uta Frith
Ghislaine Dehaene