Conference focusing on non-reductive approaches to the problem of consciousness, to be held at the University of Padua on February 21st-23rd. Conference will be only in person, recordings will be available later on on the UBI youtube channel. Program below.
Wednesday, February 21
Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio
9:00 am – Opening Remarks
EGIDIO ROBUSTO | FILIPPO SCIANNA | COME CARPENTIER INSIGHTS FROM CONTEMPLATIVE TRADITIONS Chair: MARCELLO GHILARDI
9:30 am – ERVIN LASZLO, Combining Scientific Outsight With Spiritual Insight. The Nature of the Evolved Consciousness 10:00 am – SANGEETHA MENON, Binding the Elusive Consciousness With the Self: Why AI Will Not Become Sentient?
10:30 am – Coffee Break
Chair: ILARIA MALAGUTI
11:00 am – BRUNO NERI, Neurophenomenology. Report from a Tibetan Monastery in India
11:30 am – BINDU M. KUTTY, Brain Oscillations and its Functional Correlates. A Gateway to Explore
the Concept of Consciousness
12:00 pm – Discussion
BEYOND DUALITY
Chair: SILVIA CAPODIVACCA
2:30 pm – CATHERINE PRUEITT, Apoha as a Solution to the Decomposition Problem
3:00 pm – ZORAN JOSIPOVIC, Consciousness Itself
3:30 pm – Coffee Break
CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS
Chair: FABIO GRIGENTI
4:00 pm – CHETAN PRAKASH, Polytopes, Conscious Dynamics and Physics
4:30 pm – DONALD D. HOFFMAN, Spacetime Is a Headset. Conscious Dynamics Beyond Spacetime
and Quantum Theory
5:00 pm – FEDERICO FAGGIN, Consciousness Is About Meaning
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Discussion
Thursday, February 22 Aula N, Palazzo Liviano
PHILOSOPHICAL AND EPISTEMOLOGICAL INQUIRIES
Chair: CHIARA MASCARELLO
9:00 am – KATHINKA EVERS, The Elephant in the Room. Normative Obstacles to Understanding Consciousness 9:30 am – JUAN ARNAU, Out of the Text. Erotism and Blindness of Data. 10:00 am – RICCARDO MANZOTTI, The Hypothesis of the Identity Between Consciousness and the Physical Objects (MOI). Consciousness Is Not Inside the Brain 10:30 am – Coffee Break
Chair: ANDREA GAMBAROTTO
11:00 am – SEBASTJAN VÖRÖS, Snakes All the Way Down. Varela’s Path From Life to Experience, and Back Again 11:30 am – PHILIP GOFF, Free Will and the Evolution of Consciousness
12:00 pm – 1:00 pm – Discussion
NEUROSCIENTIFIC HYPOTHESES ON CONSCIOUSNESS
Chair: NICOLA DE PISAPIA
2:30 pm – GEORG NORTHOFF, How to Connect Brain and Mind. Temporo-Spatial Theory of Consciousness (TTC) 3:00 pm – BERNARD BAARS, Points of Scientific Consensus 3:30 pm – GIUSEPPE PAGNONI, What Does the Free-Energy Principle Offer Us for Understanding Meta-Awareness, Self, and Consciousness?
4:00 pm – Coffee Break
Chair: FRANCESCO TORMEN
4:30 pm – STEVEN LAUREYS, The Neurology of Consciousness. From Coma and Near-Death Experiences to Meditation and Hypnosis
5:00 pm – CHRISTOF KOCH, Integrated Information Theory and Consciousness in Nature
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm – Discussion
8:00 pm – Social Dinner
Friday, February 23
Sala delle Edicole, Palazzo del Capitanio
FURTHER INSIGHTS FROM NEUROSCIENCE
Chair: FEDERICO ZILIO
9:30 am – RAVINDRA P. NAGENDRA, Sleep: A Model to Explore Neuroscientific Hypothesis on Consciousness? 10:00 am – SRINIVASAN NARAYANAN, Temporal Consciousness
10:30 am – ELENA ANTONOVA, The Importance of Staying With the Question
11:00 am – Coffee Break
11:30 am – 12:15 pm – Discussion
12:15 pm – Closing Remarks
ANMOL MAHAJAN | FRANCESCO TORMEN |
MARCELLO GHILARDI
Discussants:
ANDREA GAMBAROTTO | EMANUELA MAGNO |
ILARIA MALAGUTI | ARIANNA PALMIERI | FEDERICO ZILIO | EMMA LAVINIA BON | FRANCESCO MARIA CATANZARO | JACOPO CECCON | ALBERTO MERZARI | ELISA PALUAN | BIANCA VENTURA
Scientific and Organizing Committee:
SILVIA CAPODIVACCA | COME CARPENTIER | MARCELLO GHILARDI | CHIARA MASCARELLO | FRANCESCO TORMEN
Event Manager:
EMMA BANO, in collaboration with
No reservation required
For information: master.contemplativestudies@unipd.it