Space Metaphor Consciousness - The First Hypothetical Conference on Everything

Panel 1 - Art and Creativity

• This is Not an Abstract
• Creative Cycles and the Illuminated Moment
• Artworks as the result of Epistemic Action

Panel 2 - Mind (the gap)

• Liquid States of Mind
• Sacred and Profane Thinking
• Mirrors and Metaphors

Panel 3 - Evolution and Ecology

• Why Thinking is Adaptive
• Evolution Psychology and Perennial Philosophy
• Ecology, Adaptation, and our Evolutionary Future

Panel 4 - Science, Pseudoscience, and History

• The Many Memories of Water
• The Use of Metaphor in Science, Art, and Poetry
• How Science Lost (and found) its Body
• The Explanatory Gap and the Mathematisation of Science

Panel 5 - Knowledge

• Up Close and Personal:Proximity and Objectivity in Metaphors of Knowledge
• Darkness at Noon: Objectivity and Undeniability
• Sensory Modality as an Unconscious Conceptual Metaphor for the Organisation of Knowing
• Knowing is Sensing: Aural and Olfactory Modes of Knowing

Panel 6 - Performances

• Polycentric Prototypical Performance
• Performance, Creativity, and Consciousness
• Liveness as a Metaphor
• The Performance of Transformative Practice.

Panel 7 - Spaces and Being

• Three Dimensional Mind
• The Illuminated Space of Knowing and Being
• Here is Knowledge

Panel 8 - Technologies of Sensual Knowing

• Here is One Hand: Web 2.0 and Haptic Knowledge
• Blogging Knowledge Now (outside my window)
• Reporting the Report: Knowledge Paradigms in Online Writing