SESSION 1
Non-Human Consciousness: Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives
09:00 – 09:15 Opening remarks
09:15 – 10:00 Nicola Clayton
Embodied сognition: Thinking with feathers and tentacles
10:00 – 10:40 Anna Smirnova
Self-awareness and other complex cognitive capacities in corvids
10:40 – 11:20 Thomas Suddendorf
Minds comparing minds
11:20 – 11.40 Coffee break
11:40 – 12:20 Anindya Sinha
Consciousness in the wild: naturalistic observations of the macaque mind
12:20 – 13:00 Pavel Balaban
Phylogenesis of behavioral choice from Placozoa to mammals
13:00 – 13:40 Masanori Kohda
Reconsideration of the premise for the study on animal consciousness
13:40 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:40 Tenzin Priyadarshi
Buddhist theory of consciousness
15:40 – 16:20 Henry Shevlin
Three strategies for understanding non-human consciousness: deep sentientism, shallow sentientism, and patiency pluralism
16:20 – 17:00 Tim Bayne
Tests for consciousness
17:00 – 17:20 Coffee break
17:20 – 18:00 Heather Browning
Mapping animal affect
18:00 – 18:40 Walter Veit
What are the adaptive benefits of subjective experience
19:30 – 21:30 Conference Opening Dinner at the Hyatt Regency Hotel