MESEC 2021 is over!
The first MESEC Workshop took place in September of 2021, and brought together 16 students and early-career researchers from different approaches to the consciousness science field.
At MESEC, proponents of different theories of consciousness from various backgrounds (Philosophy, Psychaiatry, Neuroscience, Modeling, Psychology, to name a few), took part in an interactive workshop that included structured debates and informal discussions.
The main focus of the workshop was theories of consciousness: we explored the emerging field of consciousness theories, and through discussions between advocates and challengers of each theory, we characterized how each paradigm views phenomena such as:
- Dreams, lucid dreaming, and sleep as opposed to wakeful consciousness
- Unique consciousness states (e.g., hypnosis, freediving) and conscious experience in neuropsychiatric disorders
- Disorders of consciousness (e.g., minimally conscious states)
- Thought experiments (e.g., split-brain, brain in a vat) and futuristic predictions (e.g., artificial intelligence)
- Differences and similarities to other theories of consciousness
At the end of the workshop, we produced an internal output document summarizing our discussions. In addition, we were joined by two experienced Youtube scientific content creators, Monsieur Phi and Dirty Biology. They created several videos about consciousness for the wider non-scientific audience. You can watch the videos here, and here (more to come).
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Campomoro, Corsica
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From September 4th to 11th 2021
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Staff
Esteban Munoz Musat
Paris Brain Institute
Julie Hemmerlin
Cognitive science consultant
Ulysse Klatzmann
Center for Neural science, NYU
Hadrien Titeux
LSCP, École Normale Supérieure
Scientific Chair
Cyriel Pennartz
Head of Dept. Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam
Participants
Camilo Miguel Signorelli
Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, NeuroSpin
Francesco Ellia
University of Bologna
Adrien Doerig
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour
Jakub Vohryzek
University of Oxford
Urte Laukaityte
UC Berkeley Philosophy
Veith Andreas Weilnhammer
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Rony Hirschhorn
Tel Aviv University
Suraiya Luecke
University of Edinburgh
Kwangjun Lee
University of Amsterdam
Romy Beauté
Paris Brain Institute
George Deane
University of Edinburgh
Matteo Grasso
University of Wisconsin–Madison
Karla Matić
Max Planck School of Cognition
Mathis Bassler
University of Amsterdam
Basak Turker
Brain and Spine Institute - ICM
Stavros Anagnou
University of Hertfordshire
Speakers
María Victoria Sánchez-Vives
Research Professor at Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
Cyriel Pennartz
Head of Dept. Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam
Jan G. Bjaalie
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
Timo Dickscheid
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Viktor Jirsa
Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes
Maaike van Swieten
University of Oslo
Michael Denker
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Brent Huisman
Institute for Advanced Simulation , Forschungszentrum Jülich
Steven Laureys
Centre du Cerveau, CHU Liège
Mihai Alexandru Petrovici
NeuroTMA Group, University of Bern
Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos
Neurospin
Youtubers
Thibaut Giraud
French educational youtube channel on Philosopy
Léo Grasset
French educational youtube channel on Natural Science
Partners
Humain Brain Project
EBRAINS
European Union
