October 13 to 19, 2002 on the Island of Elba, Italy
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel, Dr. Britta Glatzeder
- Marta Olivetti Belardinelli, psychology, La Sapienza University of Rome, IT
- Per Aage Brandt, semiotics, University of Aarhus, NL
- Michael Daunderer, anaesthesiology, Medical University, Munich, DE
- Hubert Dreyfus, philosophy, University of Berkeley, US
- Rolf Elberfeld, philosophy, University of Wuppertal, DE
- Britta Glatzeder, philosophy, Human Science Center, University of Munich, DE
- Stephan Guenzel, philosophy, Humboldt University, Berlin, DE
- Godehardt Link, logic and philosophy of science, University of Munich, DE
- Riccardo Manzotti, robotics, Philosophy, University of Genoa, IT
- Thomas Metzinger, philosophy, University of Mainz, DE
- Yoshihiro Miyake, artificial intelligence, robotics, Tokyo Inst. of Technology, JP
- Albrecht von Müller, philosophy, Parmenides Center, DE
- Josephine Papst, linguistics, University of Graz, AT
- Ernst Pöppel, neuroscience, Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich; Parmenides Center, DE
- Helge Ritter, neuroinformatics, University of Bielefeld, DE
- Semir Zeki, neurobiology, University College, London, UK
- Antti Revonsuo, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku;
- Helge Ritter, neuroinformatics, University of Bielefeld.
- Mental Architecture in Natural and Artificial Systems (Marta Olivetti Belardinelli)
- Why Consciousness Is A Prerequisite For Thought (Per Aage Brandt)
- Why Consciousness is not Important to Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty (Hubert Dreyfus)
- A View on Consciousness and Thinking from Outside (Rolf Elberfeld)
- Thinking the archive - towards An Archaeology of Consciousness (Stephan Guenzel)
- Can There Be a Science of Neurodynamics? (Godehard Link)
- Artificial Consciousness (Riccardo Manzotti)
- Phenomenal Consciousness and the First-Person Perspective (Thomas Metzinger)
- Consciousness and Presence (Albrecht von Müller)
- An Introduction to the Sub-Symbolic (Josephine Papst)
- Complementary Mechanisms in Visual Consciousness – A Necessary Platform for Thinking (Ernst Pöppel)
- Elements of Artificial Attention (Helge Ritter )
- Thinking and Consciousness in the Perspective of Social System Theory (Joachim Rossbroich)
- The Disunity of Consciousness (Semir Zeki)

