Alentejo, Portugal, May 2015
On May 22-24, 2015, some of today’s foremost researchers of post-materialistic consciousness science will converge on the Research Campus of the International Academy of Consciousness (IAC), located near Évora, in the Alentejo region in Portugal, for the 1st INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF CONSCIENTIOLOGY (CONSCIOUSNESS SCIENCE).
The goal of the congress is to contribute for the establishment of a more adequate approach for the scientific study of the consciousness. At this year's three day congress, 21 keynote speakers will converge on the Research Campus, including world renowned physicists, neurologists, astrophysicists, doctors, psychologists, engineers and researchers. Including Federico Faggin PhD, Tom Campbell MS, Olaf Blanke PhD, Brenda Dunne MS, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi PhD, Ulisse di Corpo, PhD and Antonella Vannini, PhD, Wagner Alegretti, BSEE and Nanci Trivellato MSc.
These speakers will discuss human consciousness according to various disciplines and perspectives.
Maverick scientists have been venturing where only religion and philosophy dared, applying the principles of science, with new methodologies, to the internal, subjective world of consciousness. Consciousness is widely considered one of the greatest and most persistent mysteries of science. Why are we aware? Where does that awareness come from? Is it created by biology or is it more than that, surviving biological death? The event is open to anyone interested in the multidimensional paradigm..