J. Twentieth
Conference on Toward a Science of Consciousness : TSC 2013 (March 3-9)
The Twentieth
Conference on Toward a Science of Consciousness (TSC 2013) was organized at
Dayalbagh Educational Institute from March 3-9, 2013. The conference was shared
between DEI Convocation Hall, Quantum-Nano Systems Centre and Centre for
Consciousness Studies. Over 400 delegates from all over the world attended the
conference. There were 22 Plenary Talks with 18 international speakers from USA, Canada,
Belgium, Romania, Germany,
Norway, Japan and Australia and 4 national speakers.
The plenary talks covered various interdisciplinary aspects of consciousness.
There were 24 concurrent sessions and 3 poster sessions in TSC 2013. The
workshops offered during the event included those by DEI team (Basic Neuro and
Cognitive Sciences), Prof. Stuart Hameroff (Review of Orch. OR Theory), Prof.
Menas Kafatos (Self in Science) and Dr. Deepak Chopra (Healing, Transformation and
Higher Consciousness).
The event was
inaugurated on March 5 by Prof. James Barrell, University of West Georgia,
with his talk entitled “Inner Experience
and Neuroscience: Merging both Perspectives”. The Vision Talk was delivered
by Revered Prof. P.S. Satsangi, Chairman Advisory Committee on Education,
Dayalbagh Educational Institutions, entitled, “Towards Integrating Arts (First-Person Spiritual-Cognitive-Material
Phenomenology) and Science (Third-Person Neuro-Physical Environmental-Cognitive
Correlates) of Consciousness : The Dayalbagh Vision”. The Inaugural
Function was transmitted to all the e-Satsang Branches and the Satsang Hall at
Dayalbagh also. There was a lively Cultural Programme on the Inaugural Day for
the delegates of TSC.
Panel Discussion
was held on March 9, 2013 on the topic Inner Science and Natural Sciences, moderated by Mr. Prem Prashant. The
Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for educational and scientific cooperation,
between Dayalbagh Educational Institute and University
of Waterloo, first signed in July
2008, was renewed for another term of five years on March 9, 2013 in the
Closing Function of TSC 2013, in the presence of Prof. Peter Roe, Director,
International Exchange Programmes, University
of Waterloo. All contents
of the original MoU signed in 2008 remain in effect, and an additional clause
on undergraduate and graduate student exchange for research, internships has
been added in the renewal agreement.
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