2nd Annual Workshop on Geoethical Nanotechnology

Final Program

July 19, 2006

Optional hike on an easy portion of the Long Trail section of the Appalachian Trail – Meet at 10AM at the Middlebury Inn

Welcome Dinner at the Middlebury Inn
          5PM – Cocktails
          6PM – Dinner

July 20, 2006

7:30AM – Transportation Leaves from Middlebury Inn to bring guests to Terasem Retreat for the Workshop.

8:00AM – Breakfast at the Terasem Retreat

9:00AM – Welcome and introduction by Conference Convener
              Martine Rothblatt, President, Terasem Movement (PowerPoint)

TOPIC A:  COMPUTING CONSCIOUSNESS

9:10AM – “Consciousness in Humans & Elsewhere,” Baruch Blumberg, M.D., Ph.D., Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Senior Advisor to the President, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA  (PowerPoint) (Paper)

9:30AM – Formal Interaction

9:50AM – “The Computational Capabilities of the Cytoskeleton”, Jack Tuszynski, Professor, Department of Physics, University of Alberta (PowerPoint)

10:10AM – Formal Interaction

10:30AM – Break & Informal Interaction

TOPIC B:  CONSCIOUSNESS EMULATION

10:50AM – “Scope and Resolution in Neural Prosthetics and Special Concerns for the Emulation of a Whole Brain,” Randal Koene, Ph.D., Center for Memory and Brain, Boston University (PowerPoint)

11:10AM – Formal Interaction

11:30AM -- “The Role of AGI in Cybernetic Immortality,”  Ben Goertzel, Ph.D., Biomind LLC & Novamente LLC

11:50AM – Formal Interaction

12:10PM – Keynote Address:

“How Neuronanotechnology Will Lead to Melding of Mind and Machine,”  Ray Kurzweil, Author, Age of Spiritual Machine; Fantastic Voyage;  Living Long Enough to Live Forever; The Singularity Is Near (PowerPoint)

12:50PM -- Lunch & Informal Interaction

TOPIC C:  CONSCIOUSNESS UPLOADING

2:00PM – “Personality Transfer,” William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D., National Science Foundation (PowerPoint)

2:20PM – Formal Interaction

2:40PM -- “How Uploading Works,” Marshall Brain, Author, How Stuff Works
 
3:00PM – Formal Interaction

3:20PM – “Uploading Research Spinoff:  Neuro-Nanotechnology to Cure Criminality and Mental Illness,” Nancy J. Woolf, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of California.

3:40PM – Break & Informal Interaction

TOPIC D:  NEURO-NANOTECHNOLOGY GEOETHICS

4:00PM – “Perception Shifting in Neurosociety:  Ethical and Societal Implications,” Zack Lynch, President, NeuroInsights (PowerPoint)

4:20PM – Formal Interaction

4:40PM – “The Ethics of Imagination:  The Space Between Your Ears,” Wrye Sententia, Ph.D., Director, Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics, Davis, California

5:00PM – Formal Interaction

5:20PM – “Defining and Resolving Geoethical Issues in Neuronanotechnology,” Martine Rothblatt, Ph.D., J.D., Chairman & CEO, United Therapeutics Corp., Silver Spring, MD (PowerPoint)

5:40PM – Formal Interaction & Workshop Summary

6:00PM – Cocktail Reception

7:30PM – Dinner

9:30PM – Transportation Leaves for Middlebury Inn

Press release