18 JUNE 2004

 

08h00-08h45                          Registration

 

08h45-09h00                         The organisers

« Introduction to the tribute »

 

1 – Autopoiesis and Enaction, moderated by Luigi Luisi

 

09h00 – 09h45                       Barry Mc Mullin (Dublin City University, Ireland)

« 30 Years of Computational Autopoiesis: A Review »

09h45 – 10h30                       Eric Goles (Centre for Mathematical Modelling, Univ. of Chile)

« Discrete dynamical systems and undecidability (sand pile

and ants) »

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

            11h00 – 11h45                       Steven Rose (University College London, Great Britain)

                                                           « The Autopoietic Brain/Mind »

            11h45 – 12h30                       Susan Oyama (The City University of New York, USA)

« Development 'sin techo, sin muros' »

 

            12h30 – 13h00                       Discussion

 

LUNCH

 

2 – Enaction and Cognition, moderated by Evelyn Fox Keller

 

            14h30 – 15h15                       Antonio Coutinho (Inst. Gulbenkian de Ciencia, Oeira, Portugal)

« Second Generation Immune Network »

            15h15 – 16h00                       Luc Steels (Vrije Univ. Brussel, Belgique & SONY CSL, Paris)

« Embodied semiotics dynamics »

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

            16h30 – 17h15                       Alva Noe (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

« Experience without the head »

17h15 – 18h00                       Andy Clark (Indiana University, Bloomington, USA)

« Profound Embodiment »

 

            18h00 – 18h30                       Discussion

 

 

20h30                                     SOCIAL EVENT

Gala dinner-dance hosted by the Chilean Embassy

 

 

 

19 JUNE 2004

 

 

3 – Cognition and Neurosciences, moderated by Bernard Renault

 

 

            09h30 – 10h15                       Paul Bach-y-Rita (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA )

                                                           « Emerging concepts of brain function  »

            10h15 – 11h00                       Michel Imbert (Universitι Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris)

« Is seeing to scan an image ?  »

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

            11h30 – 12h15                       Jean-Philippe Lachaux and Michel Lκ Van Quyen (LENA, Paris)

« The Brain Web : large-scale integration in the neural system  »

 

            12h15 – 13h00                       Discussion

 

LUNCH

 

4 – Consciouness and Practice, moderated by Anne Harrington

 

            14h30 – 15h15                       Matthieu Ricard (Shechen Monastery, Nepal)

                                                           « From mind training to brain plasticity, cultivating the inner

conditions for well-being »

            15h15 – 16h00                       Alan Wallace (Santa Barbara Institute for the Interdisciplinary

Study of Consciousness, USA)

« Three dimensions of consciousness: A Buddhist

phenomenology of mind »

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

16h30 – 17h15                       Michel Bitbol (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)

                                               « Downward causation: concept and experience »

 

            17h15 – 17h45                       Discussion

 

18h00 – 19h45                       SOCIAL EVENT

Avant-premiθre : « Monte Grande: What is life ? »

a documentary with Francisco Varela

directed by Franz Reichle

 

 

20 JUNE 2004

 

 

5 – Neurophenomenology and Consciousness, moderated by John Searle

 

            09h00 – 09h45                       Thomas Metzinger (Johannes Gutenberg-Univ. Mainz, Germany)

                                                           « Being No One - The Self-Model Theory of Subjectivity »

            09h45 – 10h30                       Evan Thompson (York University, Canada)

« Consciousness and valence »

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

            11h00 – 11h45                       Wolf Singer (MPI for Brain Research, Frankfurt/Main, Germany)

« The Observer in the Brain: A Dynamic State »

11h45 – 12h30                       Shaun Gallagher (University of Central Florida, USA)

« Towards a neurophenomenological account of autism »

 

            12h30 – 13h00                       Discussion

 

LUNCH

 

6 – Practice and Social, moderated by Jean Petitot

 

            14h30 – 15h15                       Andreas Roepstorff (University of Aarhus, Denmark)

                                                        « Webs of Significance: From Brain Dynamics to

Social Interaction »

         15h15 – 16h00                       Jean-Pierre Dupuy (CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris)

« A principle of indeterminacy in ethical decisions »

 

16h00 – 16h30                       Discussion

 

COFFEE BREAK

 

7 – Round Table, moderated by Evan Thompson

 

            17h00 – 17h45                       « Laying down a path in walking »

 

17h45 – 18h00                       The Organisers

                                                           Conclusion