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SUMMARY:Global Futures\, Conscious Leadership
DESCRIPTION:Global Futures\, Conscious Leadership \n\n\n\nwith Jessica Bockler and Bruce Alderman \n\n\n\nFebruary 7\, 20248:30am PST  | 11:30am EST  | 4:30pm GMT  |  5:30pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. \n\n\n\nAs Alfred North Whitehead put it\, the world “craves for novelty and yet is haunted by terror at the loss of the past”. We feel we urgently need change but we seem unable to make it happen\, at least at the speed\, precision\, and depth required for it to make a real\, positive\, and effective difference in the world. In this free live event Àlex Gómez-Marín will be in conversation with Jessica Bockler (Alef Trust) and Bruce Alderman (California Institute of Integral Studies) in the context of their respective new programmes which seek to promote\, with the same spirit but in different ways\, conscious leadership and conscious change-making in ourselves and the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNurturing the Fields of Change Programme | Alef Trust \n\n\n\nConscious community has always been at the heart of the Alef Trust\, a non-profit global learning provider in higher education\, research and community development. Our work is about cultivating balanced ways of being\, as well as activating the potential of whole-person inquiry for the evolution of human habits\, cultures\, and systems. In 2023 we launched Nurturing the Fields of Change\, a programme for holistic change leaders working on transformation projects. The programme explores the links between inner work\, deep ecology\, conscious leadership\, and social change; and it offers opportunities for collective presencing and sense-making to address the big challenges of our time. We know that transformation thrives through collaboration and supportive community\, as well as through deep participation in our inner\, multi-dimensional growth. With the support and encouragement of our peers\, we feel accompanied and validated in our work; and we grow in our inner capacities and in our ability to engage more expansively and creatively with the questions we face in our work. A new cycle of the programme begins on Monday\, 5th February 2024 and we invite you to join us: \n\n\n\nhttps://fieldsofchange2024.sutra.co/space/9mx82r/register \n\n\n\nThe Blue Sky Leaders Certificate Program | California Institute of Integra Studies. \n\n\n\nBlue Sky Leaders at CIIS is a professional certificate program that blends intensive contemplative training with cutting-edge neuroscience\, new cosmology\, regenerative economics\, creative arts\, and conscious leadership principles for a profoundly transformative educational experience.  Modeled on the “encore” or “third act” programs offered by universities such as Stanford\, Notre Dame\, or Oxford\, the BSL program is designed to provide established or retired professionals\, leaders\, and cultural creatives with new opportunities for growth and development\, an expanded community of practice\, and the skills to respond wisely to the fragmentation and loss of meaning that drive many of our current social and environmental ills. Grounded in timeless wisdom and emerging science\, and led and facilitated by a team of over 30 thought-leaders and creative change agents from across many disciplines\, BSL reimagines leadership development by emphasizing the dynamic intersections of personal transformation\, global consciousness\, and creative action. Applications for the 2024 cohort are now being accepted: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.ciis.edu/blueskyleaders/bsl-certificate \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Bockler is an applied artist and transpersonal psychologist who has spent the past two decades exploring how integrative practices\, spiritual wisdom and creativity can catalyse individual and collective transformation. Jessica is a co-founding director of the Alef Trust\, a global provider of transpersonal and integrative education. Jessica’s vision and research interests centre on holistic and creative approaches to social transformation\, bridging embodied imagination and sourcing of deep intelligence with transpersonal activism and social change initiatives. Jessica is the research lead of Alef Trust’s Conscious Community Initiative which galvanises and supports projects for human flourishing\, social justice\, peace and sustainability. She is a certified Warm Data Lab host (Bateson Institute) and she is on the academic advisory board of the Inner Development Goals initiative. She is also a member of the Presencing Institute’s research community and the UN’s Conscious Food Systems Alliance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBruce Alderman is the associate director of the Blue Sky Leaders program at the California Institute of Integral Studies\, part-time faculty for the Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Transformation department at National University\, and an integral and transpersonal psychologist. He is also a long-time student of David Bohm’s work\, and recently led a course with Lee Nichol on the concept and practice of the rheosoma. Prior to working at CIIS and NU\, Bruce worked and studied abroad in Asia for several years\, teaching courses on creative writing and inquiry at the Rajghat Besant School\, a Krishnamurti school in Varanasi\, India\, and studying and practicing at monasteries and ashrams in Korea\, Indonesia\, Malaysia\, India\, and Nepal. He has published essays in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice and Consciousness Journal\, as well as in several anthologies on Integral philosophy and spirituality. Recently he launched a YouTube channel and podcast called The Integral Stage\, dedicated to exploring integral\, metamodern\, and other holistic and integrative approaches to addressing the complex social\, ecological\, and spiritual challenges of our time.
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SUMMARY:Theories of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:A Pari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness: Making Sense of a Field in Revolt and Revolution \n\n\n\nwithAnna CiaunicaFrancesco ElliaMatteo GrassoJohannes KleinerLiad MudrikMaxwell Ramstead \n\n\n\nHosted by Francesco ElliaCurated by Francesco Ellia and Alex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nFebruary 10 – 25\, 2024 9:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe future of consciousness science is going through very interesting turbulent times. Three decades ago\, the C-word was taboo in mainstream academia. Today\, it is teeming with all sorts of approaches\, techniques\, and theories. Then\, there wasn’t hardly any signal. Today\, there is perhaps too much noise. Join us at the heart of consciousness science\, as we delve into an in-depth exploration of the field’s trajectory from its nascent stages to its current state and future prospects. This online series is a unique opportunity to learn from and interact with some of the very minds currently leading the field forward. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSessions\n\n\n\nThe Philosophy of Consciousness Science\nFebruary 10\, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n\n\n\nConsciousness and the Brain: Comparing and Testing Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness\nFebruary 11\, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n\n\n\nWhat (if anything) does the Free Energy Principle Teach us about Consciousness? The Inner Screen Model\nFebruary 17\, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n\n\n\nThe Bodily Roots of Conscious Experiences in Early Life\nFebruary 18\, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness in a Structural Turn\nFebruary 24\, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm\n \n\n\n\nIntegrated Information Theory: Methodology\, Foundations\, Explanations\nFebruary 25\, 2024 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
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SUMMARY:The Philosophy of Consciousness Science
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness 1/6: The Philosophy of Consciousness Science (with Francesco Ellia)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Philosophy of Consciousness Science \n\n\n\nWith Francesco Ellia \n\n\n\nSaturday February 10\, 20249:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn his seminal 1884 observation\, Thomas Huxley likened the enigma of consciousness and its relation to nervous tissue to the inexplicable emergence of a djinn from Aladdin’s magic lamp. This metaphor strikingly encapsulates the persistent complexity of what is now known as the mind-body problem. Despite the exponential growth in our scientific understanding\, particularly of the brain\, we find ourselves scarcely closer to unraveling this mystery than in Huxley’s time. This talk aims to navigate the foundational issues in consciousness science. It critically examines the prevailing functionalist and physicalist perspectives in contemporary science\, arguing their insufficiency in addressing the mind-body problem. The discussion underscores that the crux of this problem is not merely a scientific query but is deeply rooted in the fundamental principles of modern science itself. Through this exploration\, the talk endeavors to bridge the gap between philosophical inquiry and scientific research\, suggesting a new direction in our quest to understand one of the most profound aspects of human existence. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesco Ellia is a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bologna and an Honorary Fellow at the Center for Sleep and Consciousness of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy\, Science and Cognition from the University of Bologna in 2021 with a dissertation on Integrated Information Theory and the Mind-Body Problem.
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SUMMARY:Consciousness and the Brain: Comparing and Testing Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness 2/6: Consciousness and the Brain – Comparing and Testing Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness (with Liad Mudrik)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsciousness and the Brain: Comparing and Testing Neuroscientific Theories of Consciousness \n\n\n\nWith Liad Mudrik \n\n\n\nSunday February 11\, 20249:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nFor centuries\, consciousness was considered to be outside the reach of scientific investigation. Yet in recent decades\, more and more studies have tried to probe the neural correlates of conscious experience\, and several neuronally-inspired theories for consciousness have emerged. In this talk\, I will focus on four leading theories of consciousness: Global Neuronal Workspace (GNW)\, integrated Information Theory (IIT)\, Recurrent Processing Theory (RPT) and Higher Order Theory (HOT). I will first shortly present the guiding principles of these theories\, and compare them. Then\, I will provide a bird’s-eye view of the field\, using the results of a large-scale quantitative and analytic review we conducted\, examining all studies that either empirically tested these theories or interpreted their findings with respect to at least one of them. I will then describe the first results of the Cogitate consortium – an adversarial collaboration aimed at testing GNW and IIT. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Liad Mudrik is a researcher at the school of psychological sciences and Sagol school of neuroscience at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on conscious experience\, its neural mechanisms and functions. Mudrik completed two Ph.D. dissertations at Tel Aviv University\, in cognitive psychology and in philosophy. She then continued to a postdoctoral fellowship at the California Institute of Technology\, in Christof Koch’s lab. In 2019\, she was selected as a member of the young Israeli academy of sciences. She is also one of the leaders of the Cogitate consortium\, an international adversarial collaboration aimed at arbitrating between theories of consciousness\, and a Tenenbaum fellow of the CIFAR Brain\, Mind and Consciousness program.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/consciousness-and-the-brain-comparing-and-testing-neuroscientific-theories-of-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Book-A-Month Club - Quantum Questions
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIYNit9NMKE\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World’s Great Physicists \n\n\n\nEdited by Ken Wilber \n\n\n\nHost: Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nThursday February 15\, 20249:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nAn informal monthly get-together to discuss books of significance for the Pari Center community. \n\n\n\nEach month we will meet with a guest presenter/moderator to discuss a book of their choice that probes important aspects of our focus—Physics and Philosophy\, the work of David Bohm\, Indigenous Ways of Knowing\, Jungian Concepts\, Gentle Action\, Creativity\, the Arts\, Ethics\, Community\, the Sacred.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/book-a-month-club-quantum-questions/
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SUMMARY:What (if anything) does the Free Energy Principle Teach us about Consciousness? The Inner Screen Model
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness 3/6: What (if anything) does the Free Energy Principle Teach us about Consciousness? The Inner Screen Mode (with Maxwell Ramstead)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhat (if anything) does the Free Energy Principle Teach us about Consciousness? The Inner Screen Model \n\n\n\nWith Maxwell Ramstead \n\n\n\nSaturday February 17\, 20249:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThis presentation is about whether we can learn anything about consciousness from the free energy principle (FEP). This presentation will first gently introduce the FEP to a general\, nontechnical audience. The FEP says that anything with a Markov blanket will look as if it infers the statistics of other things “beyond” the blanket\, to which it is coupled\, but from which it can be separated. We will then discuss the “inner screen model” of consciousness that follows directly from applying the FEP to model known human neurophysiology. The ensuing neo-Cartesian model of consciousness provides a deflationary account of the “homunculus.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaxwell J. D. Ramstead is the Senior Director of Research at the VERSES AI Research Lab. Ramstead is also an Honorary Fellow at the Wellcome Centre for Human Neuroimaging\, at University College London\, in the United Kingdom\, where he works with Professor Karl Friston within the Theoretical Neurobiology unit. Ramstead’s research focuses on the free-energy principle\, Bayesian mechanics\, multiscale formulations of active inference\, and computational phenomenology.
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SUMMARY:The Bodily Roots of Conscious Experiences in Early Life
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness 4/6: The Bodily Roots of Conscious Experiences in Early Life (with Anna Ciaunica)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Bodily Roots of Conscious Experiences in Early Life \n\n\n\nWith Anna Ciaunica \n\n\n\nSunday February 18\, 20249:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDiscussions about the nature of consciousness are typically couched in a way that endorses a tacit adult-centric and vision-based perspective. Here I will examine the nature of subjective experiences through a bottom-up developmental lens\, drawing attention to experiencing subjects as embodied and situated organisms essentially concerned with self-preservation within a precarious environment. How do embodied experiences ‘arise’ from square one? I will concentrate on a key yet overlooked aspect of human consciousness studies\, namely\, that the earliest and closest environment of an embodied experiencing subject is the body of another human experiencing subject. I will present evidence for fairly sophisticated forms of early sensorimotor integration of bodily signals and self-generated actions already being established in utero. These primite relational co-embodied roots of our early experiences may have a crucial impact on how we experience our-selves\, our bodies and the world across our lifespan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Ciaunica’s research in philosophy of mind and cognitive science focuses on the relationship between (a)typical forms of self-consciousness\, embodiment and social interactions in human and artificial agents. Her PhD thesis ‘Physicalism and Qualia’ tackled the mind-body problem. During her first postdoctoral assignments in Switzerland and Portugal she examined the link between disrupted sense of self\, (dis)embodiment and social connectedness in conditions such as Autism\, Möbius Syndrome and Depersonalization Disorder. Anna is currently the Principal Investigator of two interdisciplinary projects. (1) The first looks at the relationship between altered sense of self and social alienation in Depersonalisation. (2) The second examines self-consciousness and social interactions in human and artificial agents. In her work\, she combines conceptual resources from philosophy of mind and the phenomenological tradition with experimental methods from psychology and cognitive neuroscience. Anna is the main coordinator of the Network for Embodied Consciousness and the Arts (NECTArs) – a collaborative platform bringing together artists\, researchers\, stakeholders\, policy makers and people with lived experiences\, aiming at fostering creative approaches to timely issues such as self-awareness and (dis)embodiment in our hyper-digitalized world. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-bodily-roots-of-conscious-experiences-in-early-life/
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SUMMARY:A Field for the Future
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwwOQh6Iz3Y\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Field for the Future:Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the “Manifesto for a Post-Materialist Science” \n\n\n\nFebruary 21\, 20249:00am PST  | 12:00pm EST  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nwithKaralee KotheLisa MillerLorne SchusselGary E. SchwartzLaurel WatermanMarjorie Woollacott \n\n\n\nHosted by Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nA free\, online\, live event at the Pari Center. \n\n\n\nIn collaboration with:The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN);The Academy for the Advancement of PostMaterialist Sciences (AAPS). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaralee Kothe has been a student of consciousness since she was a kid. The beauty of nature\, the joy of music and dancing\, the exploration of knowledge\, and the enduring love of her family have been her guiding lights on her path. She obtained a master’s degree from the Spirituality Mind Body Institute at Teachers College\, Columbia University\, and she is currently a clinical health psychology PhD student at the University of Colorado\, Denver. Her research interests presently include understanding terminal lucidity\, the sudden return of energy and clarity before death\, and examining the intersection of meaning\, spirituality\, and health. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Miller\, Ph.D.\, is the New York Times bestselling author of The Spiritual Child and a professor in the Clinical Psychology Program at Teachers College\, Columbia University. She is the Founder and Director of the Spirituality Mind Body Institute\, the first Ivy League graduate program and research institute in spirituality and psychology\, and has held over a decade of joint appointments in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University Medical School. Her innovative research has been published in more than one hundred peer-reviewed articles in leading journals\, including Cerebral Cortex\, The American Journal of Psychiatry\, and the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Dr. Miller is Editor of the Oxford University Press Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality\, Founding Co-Editor-in-Chief of the APA journal Spirituality in Clinical Practice\, an elected Fellow of The American Psychological Association (APA) and the two-time President of the APA Society for Psychology and Spirituality. A graduate of Yale University and University of Pennsylvania\, where she earned her doctorate under the founder of positive psychology\, Martin Seligman\, she has served as Principal Investigator on multiple grant funded research studies. Dr. Miller speaks and consults around The Awakened Brain and The Spiritual Child for the US Military\, businesses (including tech\, finance\, HR and sales)\, personal development\, faith based organizations\, schools and universities\, and for mental health and wellness initiatives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorne Schussel\, Ph.D is Adjunct Assistant Professor and Core Faculty at the Spirituality Mind Body Institute of Columbia University\, Teacher College.  He is the Research Director of the Contemplative Science and Post Materialism Lab as well as the PI of the Contemplative Neuroscience and Connectivity Project. His research focuses on the utilization of contemplative practices\, human connectivity\, contemplative neuroscience\, EEG hyperscanning\, and integrating clinical biomarkers into treatment. Dr. Schussel developed a psychological healing practice known as “The Best Self Visualization Method” which has been cited in the New York Times\, ABC-online\, and the Huffington Post. His thoughts on creativity and neuroscience have been quoted recently in Health.com  He has also been an invited speaker at the United Nations Mission to Nigeria and United Nation Church Center and his method has been added to a curriculum for mental health and resilience at Zucker Hillside Hospital (NorthWell Health) and the Long Beach School District. He has presented to corporate leaders in Indonesia as part of a mental health initiative for the COVID-19 crisis and lectured to Psychiatry Medical Residents at Mount Sinai Hospital\, Glendale Adventist Hospital and to the University of Southern California. Dr. Schussel has worked as visiting faculty at the California State Judicial College teaching about mental health and employee burnout to appointed state judges and offered meditation\, loving-kindness and resilience programs to Police Officers in NY\, CA\, and MA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGary E. Schwartz\, Ph.D.\, is professor of psychology\, medicine\, neurology\, psychiatry and surgery at the University of Arizona\, and Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (www.lach.arizona.edu). He received his PhD from Harvard University\, and was a tenured professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University. He served as the founding President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences. Schwartz has published more than 500 scientific articles and chapters\, including six in the journal Science. His research has been funded by NSF\, NIH\, NIMH\, NCCAM\, DARPA\, private foundations and donors. Schwartz has co-edited more than a dozen academic volumes and authored more than a dozen books for the general public including The Afterlife Experiments\, The G.O.D. Experiments\, and The Energy Healing Experiments.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaurel Waterman is a Ph.D. Candidate in Curriculum and Pedagogy\, Wellbeing Emphasis\, at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. She teaches narrative non-fiction writing at the University of Toronto and is an Adjunct Faculty in the Alef Trust’s MSc in Consciousness\, Spirituality\, and Transpersonal Psychology. She is a board member of The Scientific and Medical Network (SMN)\, an educational organization focused on the intersection of science and spirituality\, and belongs to the Academy for the Advancement of Postmaterialist Sciences (AAPS Global). Laurel’s research focuses on consciousness studies and education\, with the goal of popularizing participatory and postmaterialist paradigms of consciousness in the field of education. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarjorie Woollacott\, Ph.D.\, was professor and chair of the Dept. of Human Physiology and is a member of the Institute of Neuroscience at the University of Oregon. She is President of the Academy for the Advancement of Post-Materialist Sciences\, On the Science Committee of the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS)\, Co-Director of the Galileo Commission and Research Director for the International Association of Near-Death Studies. Woollacott has received over 7.2 million dollars in research funding for her research in rehabilitation medicine\, meditation\, spiritual awakening and end-of-life experiences\, has published over 200 scientific articles and written or edited nine books\, including Infinite Awareness: The Awakening of a Scientific Mind (receiving 8 book awards) and Spiritual Awakenings: Scientists and Academics Describe Their Experiences. 
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SUMMARY:Theories of Consciousness in a Structural Turn
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness 5/6: Theories of Consciousness in a Structural Turn (with Johannes Kleiner)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness in a Structural Turn \n\n\n\nWith Johannes Kleiner \n\n\n\nSaturday February 24\, 20249:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nRecent activities in virtually all fields engaged in consciousness studies indicate early signs of a structural turn\, where verbal descriptions or simple formalizations of conscious experiences are replaced by structural tools\, most notably mathematical spaces and mathematical structures. This might\, on my view\, lead to a novel phase in consciousness science that fundamentally changes how we engage in\, theorize about\, and empirically investigate conscious experiences. My goal in this talk is to introduce the audience to these developments and to paint a picture of how we might expect consciousness science to change if the turn indeed happens\, both in terms of scientific achievements and real-world consequences. As part of this picture\, we will explore the fundamental question of what it means to represent consciousness mathematically\, and discuss the structural claims of two major theories of consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohannes Kleiner is a physicist and mathematician who works on mathematical topics in consciousness science. In 2017\, he completed a PhD in mathematics at the University of Regensburg\, awarded summa cum laude\, subsequent to which he was a postdoc at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Leibniz University of Hanover. In 2020\, he decided to pursue a second PhD at the LMU Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy and the LMU Graduate School of Systemic Neurosciences\, devoted to what is now called Mathematical Consciousness Science. Since 2023\, he is also a postdoc at the Institute for Psychology of the University of Bamberg\, and a visiting scholar at the NYU Center for Mind\, Brain\, and Consciousness. Johannes has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Computer Science of Oxford University\, the Harvard Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications\, and the Centre de Physique Théorique of Aix-Marseille Université\, and from September 2022 to September 2023\, was an academic visitor at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University. He currently serves on the board of the Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science. https://jkleiner.de/
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/theories-of-consciousness-in-a-structural-turn/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Integrated Information Theory: Methodology\, Foundations\, Explanations
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTheories of Consciousness 6/6: Integrated Information Theory – Methodology\, Foundations\, Explanations (with Matteo Grasso)€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIntegrated Information Theory: Methodology\, Foundations\, Explanations \n\n\n\nWith Matteo Grasso \n\n\n\nSunday February 25\, 20249:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIntegrated Information Theory (IIT) aims to account for consciousness in physical terms by identifying the essential properties of experience (axioms)\, and inferring the necessary and sufficient properties that its physical substrate must satisfy (postulates). In this talk I will present an outline of IIT 4.0’s account of some qualitative contents of experience. First\, I will introduce IIT’s methodology to study consciousness scientifically\, highlighting its differences with respect to other approaches in philosophy and consciousness science. Then\, I will provide an overview of the core concepts of the theory\, with particular focus on the role of phenomenology\, on the view of experience as a phenomenal structure\, and on their implications for the understanding of consciousness in physical terms. Lastly\, I will present IIT’s account of some key qualitative contents of experience (such as the extendedness of visual space and the flow of time). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatteo Grasso works as a Scientist at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. After completing a PhD in philosophy\, he joined the Tononi lab to contribute to the development of Integrated Information Theory (IIT). Currently\, his research is focused on applying IIT’s formalism to account for phenomenal time and conceptual invariance. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/integrated-information-theory-methodology-foundations-explanations/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:The Future Mind – A Conversation with Christof Koch
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pBf5g_YQe8\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Christof Koch and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday February 2810:00am PST  | 1:00pm EST  | 6:00pm GMT  |  7:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nPh: Erik Dinnel – Allen Institute\n\n\n\nChristof Koch\, PhD\, is best known for his work exploring the physical basis of consciousness in humans\, animals\, and machines. A physicist and neurobiologist\, he was for more than a quarter of a century a professor of biology and engineering at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle. He remains at the Allen Institute as a Meritorious Investigator. He is also the Chief Scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation in Santa Monica\, seeking to understand consciousness\, its place in nature\, and how this knowledge can benefit all of humanity. He is the author of five books and more than 350 peer-reviewed publications on\, neuroscience\, visual perception\, and consciousness. A vegetarian\, cyclist and dog lover\, he lives on a small island in the Pacific Northwest. For more information\, see www.christofkoch.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
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