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Following the 30th Anniversary of the Science of Consciousness Conference, the University of Arizona Center for Consciousness Studies – which is housed in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences – is hosting a roundtable discussion with consciousness experts Stuart Hameroff, Dante Lauretta, and Anirban Bandyopadhyay.
The three scholars will discuss the conference and the future of consciousnesses research and cosmology. Specifically, the scholars will be presenting on:
- Stuart Hameroff: “Which Came First, Life or Consciousness”
- Dante Lauretta: “Of Life & Consciousness from the Asteroid Bennu”
- Anirban Bandyopadhyay: “Body External Consciousness: What Artificial Brains Can Tell Us”
Stuart Hameroff is Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies and Professor Emeritus in the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology at the University of Arizona. Dante Lauretta is Regents Professor of Planetary Science, Director of the Arizona Astrobiology Center, and principal investigator of the OSIRIS-REx mission at the University of Arizona. Anirban Bandyopadhyay is a Senior Scientist in the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba, Japan.
The event will be moderated by Tom Bever – Co-director of the Center for Consciousness Studies and Director of the program in Consciousness Studies. He is also Regents Professor of Linguistics. Psychology, Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, SLAT and BIO5 at the University of Arizona.
This event is part of SBS 395C “Spiritual and Scientific Approaches to Consciousness,” a core course in the new Consciousness Minor. The three speakers will be interacting with each other and about 15 undergraduates in the course. The students have been extensively reviewing the field, so the discussions will be well informed. All students and community members are invited to virtually attend! Register at at https://bit.ly/UAConsciousnessWebinar.
Because this roundtable is part of an undergraduate course, the presenters will not be fielding questions from the online audience.