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A natural history of culture |
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During the Upper Palaeolithic revolution (about 50,000
to 10,000 years ago) humans developed a new set of skills and activities:
cave art, body ornamentation, human burials and other rituals - unmistakable
signs of a symbolic intelligence fundamentally like our own.
There is evidence, however, that many of the elements of modern human
behaviour can be traced even further back in time. The birth and evolution
of the modern mind is a mainly archaeological discipline receiving
contributions from other sciences including comparative genetics,
neurobiology and ethology. It is generally thought that spoken language
is a key to understanding this explosive evolution of human culture.
The session will cover human intelligence in comparison with that
of species closely related to us, the biological bases of human language,
the minimum common structure of any language, the origin of magical
thought in humans, and the birth and development of moral and religious
sensitivity.
These topics naturally encompass many classic questions about human
nature, free will, sociality, the development of technology, and our
future evolution.
| 9.00 a.m. - 9.15 a.m. |
CHAIR:
Giulio Giorello
- Professor of Philosophy of Science, University of Milan |
| 9.15 a.m. - 9.45 a.m |
Steven
Pinker - Johnstone Family Professor, Department
of
Psychology, Harvard University - The
Cognitive Niche |
| 9.45 a.m. - 10.15 a.m |
Marc
Hauser - Professor of Psychology, Organismic &
Evolutionary Biology and Biological Anthropology, Harvard University
- Evolution
of a Universal Moral Grammar |
| 10.15 a.m. - 10.45
a.m. |
Michael
Gazzaniga - Director Sage Center for the Study
of Mind, University of California, Santa Barbara - Are
Human Brains Unique? |
| 10.45 a.m. - 11.15
a.m. |
Antonio
Damasio - David Dornsife Professor of Neuroscience;
Director, Brain and Creativity Institute, University of Southern
California - Perspective from neuroscience |
| 11.15 a.m. - 11.45
a.m. |
Irenäus
Eibl-Eibesfeldt - Professor, Humanethologische
Filmarchiv, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft und Humanwissenschaftliches
Zentrum der Ludwig-Maximilian Universität München,
Germany - Final remarks |
| 11.45 a.m. - 12.45
p.m. |
Panel Discussion |
| 12.45 p.m. - 2.00 p.m. |
LUNCH |
| 2.00 p.m. - 2.15 p.m. |
Marcelo
Sánchez Sorondo - Chancellor Pontifical
Academy of Sciences, Vatican City |
| 2.15 p.m. - 2.45 p.m. |
Tomaso
Poggio - Eugene McDermott Professor, Computer Science
and Artificial Intelligence Lab, M.I.T.
Finally:
coevolution of neuroscience and AI? |
| 2.45 p.m. - 3.15 p.m. |
Maurizio
Martelli - Professor of Informatics, Dean Faculty
of
Sciences MFN, University of Genova - A
Computer Science Perspective |
| 3.15 p.m. - 3.45 p.m. |
Philip
Pettit - William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics
and Human Values, Dept of Philosophy, Princeton University -
The
Evolution of Norms |
| 3.45 p.m. - 4.15 p.m. |
Daniel
C. Dennett - University Professor and Austin B.
Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Director Center for Cognitive
Studies, Tufts University - The
Domestication of the Wild Memes of Religion |
4.15 a.m. - 4.45 p.m.
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Panel Discussion |
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Closing Ceremony |
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Giovanni Bazoli, Fulvio Conti, Chiara Tonelli, Kathleen Kennedy
Townsend, Umberto Veronesi |
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