Session 1:

Chair: J.Swartz, The Swartz Foundation, East Setauket, New York

C. Koch, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena:
From biological to machine consciousness.

G. Tononi, University of Wisconsin, Madison:
Recipes for consciousness.

E. Rolls, Oxford University, UK:
Consciousness and dual routes to action in neural network machines.

Session 2:

Chair: R.M. Goodman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

M. A. Goodale, University of Western Ontario, Canada:
Why we need two cortical visual systems: A teleassistance model.

C. D. Frith, University College London, UK:
The importance of other minds.

L. Steels, Free University of Brussels, Belgium:
The role of language in the emergence of consciousness.

J. C. Hawkins, Handspring Inc. Mountain View, California:
What neuroanatomy and the physiology of our senses tell us about consciousness and intelligence.

S. Blackmore, Bristol, UK:
Consciousness in meme machines.

Session 3:

Chair: D. J. Chalmers, University of Arizona, Tucson

N. Block, New York University, New York:
What are experiments about consciousness really about?

E. Dietrich, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg:
Can a machine be conscious? Sure, but it won't help.

I. Aleksander, Imperial College, London, UK:
Robot-usable models of visual consciousness.

R. M. Goodman, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena and O. Holland, Clinton House, Stroud, UK:
Autonomous robots + dynamic environment + intelligent control = consciousness?

Session 4:

Chair: O. Holland, Clinton House, Stroud, UK

B. Baars, The Neurosciences Institute, San Diego, California:
Self systems in the brain constrain conscious contents: A global workspace perspective.

S. Franklin, University of Memphis, Tennessee:
Conscious' software agents. We've got one running. How conscious is it? I don't know.

S. Dehaene, Service Hospitalier Frederic Joliot, Orsay, France:
Cerebral processing of conscious and unconscious stimuli: a neural workspace hypothesis.

J. Clark, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK:
Consciousness and perceptual knowledge.

Cleeremans, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium:
Being virtual: Consciousness and self as graded, adaptive phenomena.

Session 5:

Chair: C. Koch, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena

D. Psaltis, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena:
Awareness-based computing.

Closing debate

Concluding Remarks