Program

Wednesday 20

Pisa, Palazzo dei Congressi

12.30
Welcome addresses

Bruno Neri Co-Chairman of the Symposium

Filippo Scianna Director, of Lama Tzong Khapa Institute

Richard Gere

Paolo Mancarella, Rector of University of Pisa

12.50

Session 1: Mindscience and Quantum Physics

Chairman Michel Bitbol
Giuseppe Vitiello:  “Matter, mind and consciousness: from information to meaning”
Massimo Pregnolato:  “Quantum Biology as the Basis for a New Paradigm in Psychopathology”
Federico Faggin:  “Co-emergence of Semantic and Syntactic Realities”

14.05 Questions and comments by Dalai Lama

14.30 Closing Remarks

15.00-17.00
Debate: Consciousness, Quantum Physics and Reality
Moderator: Michel Bitbol
Participants: Remo Bodei, Carlo Cipolli, Joan Dombon, Adriano Fabris, Federico Faggin, Richard Gere, Bernardino Ghetti, Donald Hoffman, Steven Laureys, Marcello Massimini, Lauro Mengheri, Stefano Perfetti, Gabriele Piana,Pietro Pietrini, Massimo Pregnolato, Matthieu Ricard, Sergio Salvatore, Giuseppe Vitiello.

Thursday 21

Pisa, Palazzo dei Congressi

9.00
Session 2: Mindscience vs Neuroscience

Chairman Riccardo Zucchi

Ceremony of the Master Degree Honoris Causa in Clinical and Health Psychology to Tenzin Gyatso, the XIV Dalai Lama

  • Welcome address given by the Rector: Paolo Mancarella
  • Lecture of the motivations given by the President of Master’s Degree in Clinical and Health Psychology: Angelo Gemignani
  • Laudatio: Amy Cohen Varela President of Mind & Life Europe
  • Award of the Master Degree Honoris Causain Clinical and Health Psychology given by the Rector and the Academic Senate of the Unversity of Pisa
  • Lectio Magistralis: Tenzin Gyatso, XIV Dalai Lama

10.00

Donald Hoffman: “The case against a physical basis for consciousness”
Steven Laureys “(Un)Consciousness & the severely damaged brain”

10.50 
Questions and comments by Dalai Lama

11.30
Closing Remarks by the session chairman

Interval

13.00
Session 3: Mindscience and Philosophy

Chairman  Pierluigi Barrotta
Remo Bodei:  “Thinking, Meditating”
Matthieu Ricard: “A few considerations on the Buddhist view of consciousness and of reality
Michel Bitbol:  “Addressing the problem of consciousness without a theory”

14.15 Questionns and comments by Dalai Lama;
14.45 Closing remarks.

15.30-17.30
Debate: Mindscience, Neuroscience, Western Philosophy and Buddhism

Moderators: Riccardo Zucchi and Pierluigi Barrotta
Participants: Remo Bodei, Carlo Cipolli, Juan Dunbom,  Adriano Fabris, Federico Faggin, Alessandra Fussi, Richard Gere, Bernardino Ghetti, Donald Hoffman, Steven Laureys, Stefano Perfetti, Marcello Massimini, Lauro Mengheri, Maria Pietronilla Penna, Gabriele Piana, Pietro Pietrini, Massimo Pregnolato, Matthieu Ricard, Sergio Salvatore, Giuseppe Vitiello