Schedule
THE HUMAN ALGORITHM: What Do Our Minds Compute?
   
Friday, May 9, 2008
KEYNOTE LECTURE AND OPENING PANEL
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
3:30-4:00   Welcome and Introductory remarks
4:00-5:15   Lecture by Professor Daniel Dennett
Tufts University
    How Mindless Algorithms Build Minds
5:15-5:30   Break
5:30-7:00   Opening Panel: Is Everything Conscious? Is Consciousness Epiphenomenal?
    Daniel Dennett, Richard Granger, James Haxby, William Kelley, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adina Roskies, and Paul Whalen
7:00-9:00   Dinner Reception, DOC House, Rope Ferry Road
     
Saturday, May 10, 2008
SYMPOSIUM
Filene Auditorium, Moore Hall
8:00-8:30   Coffee and light breakfast
8:30-9:00   Welcome and Introductory remarks
9:00-10:15   Lecture by Professor Patricia Churchland
UCSD and Salk Institute
    Decisions, Responsibility and the Brain
10:15-10:30   Break
10:30-10:55   Prof. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Dartmouth
    Neuroscience and Legal Responsibility
11:00-11:25   Asst. Prof. Adina Roskies, Dartmouth
    Free Will—Uniquely Human?
11:30-11:55   Assoc. Prof. William Kelley, Dartmouth
    A Cognitive Neuroscience Approach to Studying the Self
12:00-1:30   Lunch, Occom Commons, Goldstein Hall, McLaughlin Cluster, Maynard Street
1:30-2:45   Lecture by Professor Marc Hauser,
Harvard University
    Modules, Minds, and Morality
2:45-3:00   Break
3:00-3:25   Asst. Prof. Paul Whalen, Dartmouth
    Vigilance, Valence and Ambiguity: Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Human Facial Expressions
3:30-3:55   Prof. James Haxby, Dartmouth
4:00-4:25   Prof. Richard Granger, Dartmouth
4:30-6:00   Closing Panel: Algorithms of Humanity: How Are We the Same and Different from Other Animals? Old and New Turing Tests
    Patricia Churchland, Richard Granger, Marc Hauser, James Haxby, William Kelley, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Adina Roskies, and Paul Whalen
6:00-9:00   Dinner Reception, Wheelock Room, Hanover Inn
     


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