Cajal On Consciousness (fwd)

Rejected message: sent to koglist(a)cogpsyphy.hu by ERDI(a)SUNSERV.KFKI.HU follows. Reason for rejection: sender not subscribed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:01:40 +0100 (MET) From: "Pedro C. [iso-8859-1] Mariju=E1n" <marijuan(a)posta.unizar.es> Reply-To: fis(a)listas.unizar.es To: Multiple recipients of list <fis(a)listas.unizar.es> Subject: Cajal On Consciousness PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT ______________________________________________________ "CAJAL ON CONSCIOUSNESS" International centennial conference commemorating the publication of "Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y los Vertebrados", by Santiago Ra= m=F3n y Cajal (1899), to be held in Zaragoza (Spain): Monday, November 29 - Wednesday, December 1, 1999 Web: http://cajal.unizar.es "Textura del Sistema Nervioso del Hombre y los Vertebrados", published in 1899 by Santiago Ram=F3n y Cajal (Madrid, N. Moya: 1899-1904), is the masterpiece of Spanish science and perhaps the most influential work in the history of the Neurosciences. To commemorate the centennial of its publication, the organizing Aragonese institutions are re-editing the book and holding a public discussion on Cajal=B4s seminal contributions to contemporary science. In this regard, and in collaboration with distinguished Spanish scientists, a dialogue with the most relevant figures of the international scientific community, from the Neurosciences as well as from other disciplines, has been organized. The topic chosen for the debate, the scientific approach to consciousness, is a leit motiv which continually underlies Cajal=B4s own work, and it has become a focal point f= or interdisciplinary dialogue at the turn of the millennium. Undoubtedly, it i= s one of the perennial engines of scientific progress --the ambition to understand the nature of our own consciousness. ______________________________________________________ TENTATIVE PROGRAM OPENING SESSION (Monday 29/11/99) David Chalmers (Arizona University) Ilya Prigogine (Universit=E9 Libre de Bruxelles) MIND AND MATTER (Tuesday 30/11/99) Murray Gell-Mann (Santa Fe Institute) Harold J. Morowitz (Krasnow Institute, George Mason University) THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS Lynn Margulis (University of Massachusetts) Fran=E7ois Jacob (Institut Pasteur) THE NATURE OF INTELLIGENCE Terrence Sejnowsky (Salk Institute for Biological Studies) Lotfi A. Zadeh (University of California at Berkeley) Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) ROUND TABLE: Natural Sciences and Consciousness: Filling in a Historical Ga= p? THE "DOCTRINE OF THE NEURON" REVISITED (Wednesday 1/12/99) Jean-Pierre Changeux (Institut Pasteur) Eric Kandel (Columbia University) INFORMATION PROCESSING AND BRAIN ARCHITECTURE Torsten Wiesel (Rockefeller University) Wolf Singer (Max Planck Institute for Brain Research) Petra Stoerig (University of Dusseldorf) THE EMERGENCE OF CONSCIOUSNESS Christof Koch (California Institute of Technology) Stuart Hameroff (Center for Consciousness Studies) Gerald Edelman (The Neurosciences Institute) ROUND TABLE: Envisioning Future Breakthroughs CLOSING ADDRESS Floyd E. Bloom (Scripps Research Institute, Editor of "Science") ______________________________________________________ SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Carlos Belmonte (Universidad Miguel Hern=E1ndez de Alicante) Alberto Ferr=FAs (Instituto Ram=F3n y Cajal-CSIC) Alberto Galindo (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Antonio Garc=EDa Bellido (Centro de Biolog=EDa Molecular Severo Ochoa) Angel Mart=EDn Municio (Real Academia de Ciencias F=EDsicas y Naturales) Federico Mayor Zaragoza (UNESCO) Juan P=E9rez Mercader (Laboratorio de Astrof=EDsica y F=EDsica Fundamental,= INTA) Alberto Portera (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Santiago Ram=F3n y Cajal Ag=FCeras (Cl=EDnica Puerta de Hierro) Santiago Ram=F3n y Cajal Junquera (Universidad de Zaragoza) Javier S=E1daba (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Margarita Salas (Centro de Biolog=EDa Molecular Severo Ochoa) Constantino Sotelo (INSERM, Paris) Enric Trillas (Universidad Polit=E9cnica de Madrid) CO-CHAIRS: Constantino Sotelo, Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Alberto Portera SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT Pedro C. Mariju=E1n Departamento de Ingenier=EDa Electr=F3nica y Comunicaciones Centro Polit=E9cnico Superior, Universidad de Zaragoza Zaragoza 50015, Spain Tel. (34) 976 761 927 or 976 761 948. Fax (34) 976 762 111 marijuan(a)posta.unizar.es ______________________________________________________ ORGANIZING INSTITUTIONS DIPUTACION GENERAL DE ARAGON UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA sponsored by IBERCAJA and CAI with the scientific collaboration of the Instituto Ram=F3n y Cajal (Madrid)= , and the Center for Consciousness Studies (Arizona) REGISTRATION AND GENERAL INFORMATION Technical Secretariat: DI&CO Paseo Sagasta 19, enlo. dcha. Zaragoza 50008, Spain Tel. (34) 976 211 748 or 976 229 952. Fax (34) 976 212 959 E-mail: dico(a)dico.es Web: http://cajal.unizar.es