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
Gallery
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Staff
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Esteban Munoz Musat
Paris Brain Institute
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Julie Hemmerlin
Cognitive science consultant
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Ulysse Klatzmann
Center for Neural science, NYU
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Hadrien Titeux
LSCP, École Normale Supérieure
Scientific Chair
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Cyriel Pennartz
Head of Dept. Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam
Participants
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Camilo Miguel Signorelli
University of Oxford
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Francesco Ellia
University of Bologna
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Adrien Doerig
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition & Behaviour
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Jakub Vohryzek
University of Oxford
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Urte Laukaityte
UC Berkeley Philosophy
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Veith Andreas Weilnhammer
Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin
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Rony Hirschhorn
Tel Aviv University
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Suraiya Luecke
University of Edinburgh
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Kwangjun Lee
University of Amsterdam
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Romy Beauté
Paris Brain Institute
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George Deane
University of Edinburgh
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Matteo Grasso
University of Wisconsin–Madison
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Karla Matić
Max Planck School of Cognition
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Mathis Bassler
University of Amsterdam
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Basak Turker
Brain and Spine Institute - ICM
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Stavros Anagnou
University of Hertfordshire
Speakers
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María Victoria Sánchez-Vives
Research Professor at Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer
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Cyriel Pennartz
Head of Dept. Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience, University of Amsterdam
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Jan G. Bjaalie
Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, University of Oslo
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Timo Dickscheid
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich
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Viktor Jirsa
Institut de Neurosciences des Systèmes
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Maaike van Swieten
University of Oslo
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Michael Denker
Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine, Forschungszentrum Jülich
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Brent Huisman
Institute for Advanced Simulation , Forschungszentrum Jülich
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Steven Laureys
Centre du Cerveau, CHU Liège
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Mihai Alexandru Petrovici
NeuroTMA Group, University of Bern
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Theofanis Panagiotaropoulos
Neurospin
Youtubers
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Thibaut Giraud
French educational youtube channel on Philosopy
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Léo Grasset
French educational youtube channel on Natural Science
Partners
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Humain Brain Project
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EBRAINS
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