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Welcome to ASSC5, the fifth conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Use the navigation bar to access different parts of the site. UPDATED JULY 19th 2001
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THE CONTENTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS Perception, Attention, and Phenomenology THANK YOU FOR HELPING MAKE ASSC5 A SUCCESS FOR THE PROGRAM GO TO PROGRAM SECTION OR USE THE 'SAVE TARGET AS' ON YOUR BROWSER TO DOWNLOAD AN RTF VERSION (printable) THE PROGRAM
Consciousness has rich and diverse contents, from sensory experiences such as vision, audition, and bodily sensations such as pain, to nonsensory aspects such as volition, emotion, memory, and thought. All of these conscious states can be seen as part of the contents of consciousness. Furthermore, most conscious states can be seen as having representational contents of their own, in the sense that they are about something: objects and states of affairs in the world, or states of our own body. The contents of these states are all presented to us, in William James's powerful metaphor, as part of a "stream of consciousness". The contents of consciousness raise many important questions: Just how rich is the content present in conscious experience? Do the contents of attention exhaust the contents of consciousness, or is there consciousness outside attention? What is the neural basis of the representation of conscious content? How does consciousness of our own body differ from consciousness of the external world? What methods are available to monitor the contents of consciousness in an experimental context? What is the relationship between consciousness and representation? All of these questions have been actively discussed in recent years by neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and other researchers. The fifth conference of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness will bring together researchers from numerous disciplines to discuss these issues through an intensive series of workshops, plenary lectures, symposia, paper presentations and poster contributions extending over four days between May 27-May 30, 2001. The meeting will take place in Durham, North Carolina - USA, on the campus of Duke University. Our Call for papers is now over
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