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