June 4 – Afternoon: 14:00 – 14:15 Antonella Corradini: Introduction to the Conference 14:15 – 15: 30 Henry Stapp, University of California at Berkeley: On the Nature of Things: Human Presence in the World of AtomsThe program below is annotated with references to the work of the participants. Most of the references are to PDFs or webpages that I have uploaded to the Information Philosopher website, so they are immediately available to you. When the participant's name is a link, it goes to the scientist's or philosopher's webpage on my I-Phi site, or to the participant's home or wiki page.
Bob Doyle.
15:30 – 16:45 Massimo Pauri, University of Parma: Physics, Free Will and Temporality in an Open World
- Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics, 2nd ed.
- Quantum Physics of Consciousness, with Roger Penrose
- Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer, 2nd ed.
- Quantum Theory and the Role of Mind in Nature
- Philosophy of Mind and the Problem of Free Will in the Light of Quantum Mechanics.
16:45 – 17: 00 Coffee Break 17:00 – 18:15 Ulrich Mohrhoff, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry: Quantum Physics, Mind, and Reality
19:00 Dinner
10:15 – 11:30 Antonella Corradini, Catholic University of Milan: Quantum Physics and the Fundamentality of the Mental
- Consciousness and the Universe: Quantum Physics, Evolution, Brain & Mind, with Henry Stapp, Roger Penrose
- Toward a Science of Consciousness: The First Tucson Discussions and Debates (Complex Adaptive Systems)
- How quantum brain biology can rescue conscious free will
- The "conscious pilot"—dendritic synchrony moves through the brain to mediate consciousness
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 – 13:00 Harald Atmanspacher, Institute for Frontier Areas of Psychology and Mental Health, Freiburg i. Br.: Dual-Aspect Monism à la Wolfgang Pauli and C. G. Jung
- Analytic Philosophy Without Naturalism (Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy), ed. with Jonathan Lowe
- Psycho-Physical Dualism Today: An Interdisciplinary Approach, ed. with Jonathan Lowe
- "Emergent Dualism," in Emergence in Science and Philosophy (Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science), ed. with Timothy O'Connor
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:45 Godehard Brüntrup, Munich School of Philosophy: Does Quantum Mechanics Help in Solving the Mind-body Problem?
- Dual-Aspect Monism à la Pauli and Jung
- The Hidden Side of Wolfgang Pauli
- Mind and matter as asymptotically disjoint, inequivalent representations with broken time-reversal symmetry
- Quantum Approaches to Consciousness (SEP article)
- Contextual Emergence from Physics to Cognitive Neuroscience
- Contextual Emergence in the Description of Properties (with Robert Bishop)
- Video seminar: Contextual emergence of mental states from neurodynamics (2008)
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 – 17:15 Jeffrey Barrett, University of California at Irvine (Curator of Everett papers at UCI, working with Peter Byrne, Everett biographer) Why Wigner Thought That Quantum Mechanics Required Mind-Body Dualism
20:00 Social Dinner
10:15 – 11:30 Uwe Meixner, University of Augsburg: Of Quantum Physics and DOMINDARs
11:30 – 11:45 Coffee Break 11:45 – 13:00 Robert Kane, University of Texas at Austin: Quantum Physics, Action and Free Will: How Might Free Will Be Possible in a Quantum Universe?
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 14:30 – 15:45 Hans Briegel, University of Innsbruck: On Agency and Freedom Under the Laws of Nature
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break 16:00 – 17.15 Robert Doyle, Harvard University: Quantum Physics and the Problem of Mental Causation
- "Projective simulation for artificial intelligence," H.J. Briegel, G. De las Cuevas, Nature Scientific Reports 2, 400 (2012).
"On creative machines and the physical origins of freedom", H.J. Briegel, Nature Scientific Reports 2, 522 (2012).
"Measurement‐based quantum computation", H.J. Briegel, D.E. Browne, W. Dür, R.Raussendorf, M. Van den Nest, Nature Physics 5, 19 (2009).
17:15 – 17:30 Uwe Meixner: Conclusion to the Conference 19:00 Dinner