San Francisco, California (USA) – February 17-18, 1990
The titles of their talks were the following:
- John Eccles, Nobel laureate, neuroscience
New Concepts on the Mind-Brain Problem - George Wald, Nobel laureate, biology
On the Nature of Consciousness - Roger Sperry, Nobel Laureate, Hixton Professor of Psychobiology, Caltech, Pasadena, California
- Henry Stapp, L.B. Labs, U.C. Berkeley, physics
A Quantum Theory of Consciousness - Karl Pribram, Center for Brain Research and Informational Sciences, Radford University, Virginia
Brain States and Processes as Determinants of the Contents of Consciousness - E.C.G. Sudarshan, Dept. of Physics, U. of Texas, Austin
Patterns in the Universe - John Searle, Dept. of Philosophy,University of California, Berkeley
What is Wrong with the Philosophy of Mind? - Ravi V. Gomatam, Bhaktivedanta Institute
Mind and the Symbol Processing Context - Robert Rosen, Dept. of Biology, Dalhousie University
Consciousness; Immanent or Transcendent? - Robert Jahn, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Margins of Reality—The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World - Brenda Dunne, Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University
Margins of Reality—The Role of Consciousness in the Physical World - A.G. Cairns-Smith, Dept. of Chemistry, Glasgow University
Evolution and Consciousness - Vasillii V. Nalimov, Dept. of Mathematics, Moscow State University
Spontaneity of Consciousness: A Probabilistic Theory of Meanings and Semantic Architectonics of Personality - Richard L.Thompson, Bhaktivedanta Institute
A Trans-Temporal Approach to Mind-Brain Interaction - H. Frohlich, Dept. of Physics, University of Liverpool
- David Long, Dept. of Philosophy, California State University, Sacramento
Over 500 registered delegates attended and participated in the deliberations of the conference. Most of them were from the North American academic community.
