16.00 Roger Taylor A preliminary study of the "life-energy"
associated with orgonite, ormus and pyramids by means of a
quantitative dowsing technique
16.30 Break
Chair: Ulisse di Corpo
17.00 Jon Taylor The physical and biological foundations of ESP
17.30 Marina Alfano, Rosolino Buccheri (sponsored by Antonio
Giuditta) Science’s impermeability as impediment to the
permeability of knowledge
17.50 The mysterious lights of the Norvegian Hessladen valley (a
documentary video)
18.50 Free time
21.00 Gala Dinner
8th European Meeting
"Frontiers of Biology and Contemporary Physics"
August 13 – 16, 2009
Hotel Domus La Quercia
Viterbo, Italy
PROGRAM
Sunday, August 16
9.00
Chair: Antonio Giuditta and Stefano Siccardo
Round Table on “Nature, origin and role of mind”
9.00 Peter Moddel: “Mind with regard to Meaning”
9.30 Robert Jahn, Brenda Dunne: “The Quantum Mechanics
of Consciousness”
10.00 Antonio Giuditta: “Mind and Biological Evolution”
10.30 Garret Moddel: "Physics is still OK"
11.00 Free discussion
12.00 Break
Program Committee:
Antonio Giuditta, Chair; Ulisse Di Corpo; Gerd H. Hovelmann;
Stefano Siccardi; Erling P. Strand
Local Organizer: Ulisse Di Corpo
Sponsors:
Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, Italy; Accademia di
Scienze Fisiche e Matematiche, and Accademia Pontaniana, Naples,
Italy; Italian monthly magazine ASTRA
12.20 Emilios Bouratinos The fifth force
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Congress ends
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Thursday, August 13
12.00 Registration desk opens
18.00 Get-together party
20.00 Dinner
16.20 Break
16.50 Guided tour of Old Viterbo
21.00 Dinner
Saturday, August 15
Friday, August 14
Chair: Erling Strand
8.45 Welcome
9.00 Ulisse Di Corpo Luigi Fantappiè
9.40 Antonella Vannini Pre-stimuli heart rate reactions
10.00 Vittorio Elia Dissipative structures in extremely diluted
solutions of homeopathic medicine
10.40 Richard Blasband The effects of healing intention on water
11.00 Break
Chair: Gerd Hövelmann
11.30 Rita Pizzi Evidence of neuron sensitivity to ultraweak
electromagnetic fields
12.10 Antonio Giuditta The 1907 PK experiments by prof. Filippo
Bottazzi
12.50 Massimo Biondi A pragmatic approach to cases of nonrecurrent spontaneous psychokinesis
13.30 Lunch
Chair: Robert Jahn
15.00 Paul Devereux Walking with spirits
15.40 Bjørn G Hauge Transient luminous phenomena in the low
atmosphere of Hessdalen valley, Norway
Chair: Garret Moddel
Alexander Trofimov Weakening of the protecting geomagnetic
field and biological evolution
9.40 Maria Luisa Felici, Giulio Caratelli Poltergeist cases and
geomagnetic factor: a verification
10.00 Edgar Wunder The (non)testability of astrology. Some
theoretical considerations and empirical attempts for solutions
9.00
10.30 Break
11.00
11.40
12.00
12.20
Chair: Chantal Toporow
Vasileios Basios Complex systems and living systems: a
promenade on the borderline
Bruno d’Udine, Philip Franses (sponsored by Antonio
Giuditta) Medicinal herbs as a living paradigm of the new
dynamic between biology, physics and complexity
Brigitte Holzinger Cognition during sleep: a therapeutic
intervention in nightmares
Lewis Hollander Weight gain transients as a clue to
consciousness access
12.40 Lunch
Chair: Rosolino Buccheri
15.00 Garrett Moddel Teasing energy from zero-point fluctuations
15.30 John F. Caddy Resonance and the implicate order: are
creativity and ceremony poles apart?