October 3 to 5, 2001 on the Island of Elba, Italy

Organizers: Ernst Pöppel, Albrecht von Müller

• Wilfried Brauer, computer science, Technical University, Munich;
• Britta Glatzeder, philosophy, Human Science Center, University of Munich;
• Ulises C. Moulines, philosophy, Logic and Philosophy of Science, University of Munich;
• Albrecht von Müller, philosophy, Parmenides Center;
• Ernst Pöppel, neuroscience, Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich and Parmenides Center;
• Eva Ruhnau, physics, Human Science Center, University of Munich;
• Semir Zeki, neurobiology, University College of London.

• Intelligent agents and the knowledge society (Wilfried Brauer)
• Nietzsche's views of Parmenides and the nature of thinking (Britta Glatzeder)
• A taxonomy of thinking from a logico-epistemological perspective (part 2) (Ulises Moulines)
• The notions of time and reality from a philosophical point of view (Albrecht von Müller)
• Towards a taxonomy of thinking operations (Albrecht von Müller)
• The temporal synchronisation of neuronal events (Ernst Pöppel)
• The deconstruction of Descartes' methodological principles (Eva Ruhnau)
• A theory of time (Eva Ruhnau)
• The chrono-architecture of the brain (Semir Zeki)
• Art as a model for understanding the nature of thinking as a process of abstraction and sublimation (Semir Zeki)