Consciousness: When is it present and how would we know?
Time: March 4th, from 9:00 am. 
Venue: Auditorium L200, Domus Medica, Gaustadalleen 34


In relation to our colleague Andre S. Nilsen's PhD defense, we are organizing an open symposium with Prof. Lorina Naci, Phd, and Michael Schartner, PhD. 

In addition to the talks and discussion with these experts in the field, we also wish to invite you all to contribute your own thoughts on consciousness in a small poster session. If you are interested in contributing, please sign up here: https://nettskjema.no/a/597758
Provided we get enough contributions, we will select up to ten to be presented during the final session. 


Program: 
 9:00- 9:30 --- Meet and greet
 9:30-10:00 --- Talk by Michael Schartner, "Quantifying Conscious States with Neural Signal Complexity"
10:00-10:30 --- Talk by prof. Lorina Naci, "Consciousness in the cradle: on the emergence of infant experience" (tentative title)
10:30-11:00 --- Q&A with the speakers, chaired by Andre S Nilsen
11:00-12:00 --- Poster session and mingling (all are welcome to contribute!)
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Past speakers hosted by the Forum for Consciousness Research

List of past speakers in the Forum for consciousness science
List of past speakers in the Forum for consciousness science

Forum for Consciousness Research is a cross-disciplinary forum for researchers and others who are interested in a scientific approach to consciousness. The forum was founded in Oslo in June 2013, and organizes open meetings with guest lecturers that are announced at this web page and via an email list. To join the email list for notification of future events: Visit this link

  • David Chalmers conversed about the brain and consciousness in August, 2013

Norwegian: Forum for bevissthetsforskning er et tverrfaglig møtepunkt for forskere og andre som er interessert i vitenskapelige tilnærminger til bevissthet.  Forumet ble stiftet i Oslo i juni 2013. Formålet er å samle interesserte fagfolk fra naturvitenskap, medisin, psykologi, filosofi og andre fag og miljøer, for å styrke kunnskapen, interessen og den tverrfaglige kommunikasjonen om disse spørsmålene. Forumet organiserer åpne møter og gjesteforelesninger som annonseres på disse sidene og via en epostliste.

Funding and supportForum for Consciousness Research has been funded and supported by SERTA – The Changing Brain project (2013-2020; led by JF Storm), UiO:Life Science Convergence environments II – ConsciousBrainConcepts  (2020-2025; led by JF Storm, S. Watzl; https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/life-science/research/convergence-environments/), and The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2014-2023; https://dnva.no/norwegian-academy-science-and-letters).

Redaktør /Editor: André Sevenius Nilsen

Ansvarlig redaktør /Editor-in-chief: Dr. Johan F. Storm

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