Will Jack Tuszynski be at this conference?

Confirmed speakers include:
Sir Roger Penrose, Paul Benioff, Henry Stapp, Guenter Mahler, Mae Wan
Ho, Paavo Pylkkanen, Harald Walach, Jiri Wackerman, Jack Tuszynski,
*** Bierman, Koichiro Matsuno, Stuart Hameroff, Nancy Woolf, Scott
Hagan, Paola Zizzi, Alexander Wendt, Jeffrey Satinover, Roeland van
Wijk, Guenter Albrecht-Buehler, Ken Augustyn, Sisir Roy and Menas
Kafatos


Submitted abstracts will be considered for Plenary Talks, Short Talks
or Posters. Deadline for abstract submission is December 1, 2002.


A relation between consciousness and quantum effects has been pondered
for nearly a century, and in the past decades quantum processes in the
brain have been invoked as explanations for consciousness and its
enigmatic features. Critics deride this comparison as a mere
"minimization of mysteries" and quickly point out that the brain is
too warm for quantum computation, which in the technological realm
requires extreme cold to avoid "decoherence" (i.e. the loss of
seemingly delicate quantum states by interaction with the
environment.) However quantum computation would surely be advantageous
from an evolutionary perspective, and biology has had 4 billion years
to solve the decoherence problem and evolve quantum mechanisms.
Furthermore, recent experimental evidence indicates quantum
non-locality occurring in conscious and subconscious brain function,
and functional quantum processes in molecular biology are becoming
more and more apparent.

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