April 5 to 10, 2003 on the Island of Elba, Italy
Organizers: Prof. Dr. Ernst Pöppel, Dr. Britta Glatzeder
- Niels Birbaumer, medical psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology, University of Tübinge, DE
- Alexander A. Fingelkurts, brain research, physiology, Moscow State University and Brain&Mind Technologies Research Centre, Helsinki, FI, RU
- Andrew A. Fingelkurts, brain research, physiology, Moscow State University and Brain&Mind Technologies Research Centre, Helsinki, FI, RU
- Herta Flor, medical psychology, University of Mannheim, DE
- Britta Glatzeder, philosophy, Human Science Center, University of Munich, DE
- Giorgio M. Innocenti, neuroscience. Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, SE
- Sean Kelly, philosophy, Princeton University, US
- Georg Kreutzberg, MPI for Neurobiology, Martinsried, DE
- Chris Langton, artificial life, complexity theory, Parmenides Center, US
- Godehard Link, logic and philosophy of science, University of Munich, DE
- Lamberto Maffei, neurobiology, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, IT
- Albrecht von Müller, philosophy, Parmenides Center, DE
- Ernst Pöppel, neuroscience, Institute of Medical Psychology, University of Munich; Parmenides Center, DE
- Antti Revonsuo, Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku;
- Helge Ritter, neuroinformatics, University of Bielefeld.
- Translation of Thoughts into Computer-Interfaces: Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI) for Animals and Humans (Niels Birbaumer and Herta Flor)
- Multivariability and Metastability as a Basis for Cognition (Alexander Fingelkurts)
- Operational Architectonics of Perception (Andrew Fingelkurts)
- Brain Networks and “Visual Thinking (Giorgio Innocenti)
- The Pictorial World of Brain Sciences (Georg Kreutzberg)
- The Logic of Motor Intentional Activity (Sean Kelly)
- The Emergence of Complexity (Chris Langton)
- Perception and Reality, or: Debunking Neurobiological Constructivism (Godehard Link)
- Neural Plasticity and the Collective Brain (Lamberto Maffei)
- Visual Support for Strategic Thinking (Albrecht von Müller)
- Complementarities (Ernst Pöppel)
- What is the smell of thinking? (Helge Ritter)
- Dreaming as Visual Thinking (Antti Revonsuo)
- Visual Thinking in Wittgenstein (Wilhelm Vossenkuhl)
