2020 Consciousness in the Physical World
Awardee   |
Institution | Value  |
Project Title |
| Kelvin McQueen / Marcus Müller | Chapman University / IQOQI Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences | $31,728 | Mathematical models of idealism and dualism: an adversarial collaboration |
| Lee Smolin | Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | $49,500 | Consciousness in the causal theory of views |
| Eliahu Cohen / Yakir Aharonov / Avshalom Elitzur / Avishy Carmi | Bar-Ilan University / Chapman University / Chapman University / Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | $56,350 | The hard problem viewed from a top-down quantum vantage point |
| H. K. Andersen | Simon Fraser University | $56,524 | Temporal Structure in the Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness |
| Howard Wiseman / Eric Cavalcanti / Peter Evans | Griffith University / The University of Queensland | $63,187 | Quantum and consciousness: paths to experiment, and implications for interpretations |
| Nao Tsuchiya / Hayato Saigo / Steven Phillips | Monash University / Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology, Japan / National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan | $66,000 | Precision phenomenology: revealing the structure of qualia |
| Angelo Bassi | University of Trieste | $74,750 | Consciousness and wave function collapse |
| Wojciech Zurek | Theiss Research | $75,000 | Conscious of a Classical World in a Quantum Universe |
| Catalina Curceanu / Lajos Diósi / Maaneli Derakhshani | INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati / Wigner Research Centre for Physics / Rutgers University | $78,000 | ICON: Novel intertwined theoretical and experimental approach to test the ORCHestrated Objective Reduction theory as physical basis of consciousness |
| James P. Crutchfield | Art and Science Laboratory | $87,082 | Quantitative Explorations in Nonhuman Consciousness—Signatures of Cetacean Intelligence and Social Awareness |
| Karim Jerbi | University of Montreal | $88,596 | Quale weaving: Probing integrated information theory through neurofeedback |
| Lidia del Rio | ETH Zürich - Institute for Theoretical Physics | $90,000 | Conditions for sentience in physical theories |
| Matilde Marcolli | California Institute of Technology | $94,217 | Towards a Topological Model of Consciousness |
| Joseph Kirschvink / Shinsuke Shimojo / Felicity Meakins | California Institute of Technology / University of Queensland | $100,000 | Cross-Linguistic EEG Comparisons on the use of Geomagnetic Cues by the Human Brain as a Path for Understanding Consciousness |
| Doris Y. Tsao / Janis K. Hesse | California Institute of Technology | $100,000 | Neural construction of conscious perception |
| Sean Tull / Quanlong Wang / Johannes Kleiner / Bob Coecke | Topos Institute / University of Oxford and Topos Institute / Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich / University of Oxford | $108,573 | Categorical Theories of Consciousness: Bridging Neuroscience and Fundamental Physics |
| Caslav Brukner / Veronika Baumann | IQOQI Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences | $109,900 | Conscious Encapsulated Observers |
| Aviva Berkovich-Ohana | University of Haifa | $124,235 | Studying the boundaries of self-consciousness using a unique MEG-neurophenomenology setup |
| Moshe Shay Ben-Haim / Ran R. Hassin | The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | $150,000 | Consciousness Without Language: Exploration in Non-Verbal Species and Human Babies |
| Kobi Kremnitzer | University of Oxford | $196,232 | Pump priming for a new Centre for Mathematical Approaches to Consciousness at Oxford |
| TOTAL | $1,799,874 |
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