- Sunday, June 9
- Arrival day
- Monday, June 10
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Session #1 Workshop Opening
- 08:45-09:00 - Welcome: Pier Francesco Ferrari, Lucia Regolin and Giorgio Vallortigara
- 09:00-09:45 - Frantisek BALUSKA - Cognitive view of life – from cells to biosphere
- 09:45-10:30 - Pietro PERCONTI - Minimal consciousness
- 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
- 11:00-11:45 - Peter GODFREY-SMITH - Two models for minimal minds
- 11:45-12:30 - Konstantin ANOKHIN - Cognitome-minimal conditions for its emergence
- 12:30-14:15 - Lunch
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Session #2
- 14:15-15:00 - David GLANZMAN - The evidence for non-synaptic, cell-intrinsic encoding of memory
- 15:00-15:45 - Hessameddin AKHLAGHPOUR - An emerging bridge between polynucleotides and intelligent computation in nature
- 15:45-16:15 - Coffee break
- 16:15-17:00 - Randy GALLISTEL - The associative learning equations and their neurobiological implications
- 19:00 - Poster session
- Tuesday, June 11
- 8:15 - EXCURSION TO THE ARCHEOLOGICAL SITES
- Wednesday, June 12
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Session #3
- 09:00-09:45 - Simon LAUGHLIN - What makes brain special?
- 09:45-10:30 - Martin GIURFA - From concepts, numbers and awareness in honeybees
- 10:30-11:00 - Coffee break
- 11:00-11:45 - Björn BREMBS - If fruit fly brains negotiate internal and external strains, is it minimal cognition?
- 11:45-12:30 - Robert ELWOOD - Hermit crabs, cognition and sentience?
- 12:30-14:45 - Lunch
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Session #4
- 14:15-15:00 - Ranieri BIZZARRI - Investigating the chemical cognition and the memory of a single cell by optical imaging
- 15:00-15:45 - Romain BRETTE - Proto-cognition of a swimming neuron
- 15:45-16:15 - Coffee break
- 16:15-17:00 - Giorgio VALLORTIGARA - Cognition, consciousness and the efference copy
- 17:00-17:45 - Kristin ANDREWS - All animals are conscious: flipping the null hypothesis
- 17:45-18:15 - Concluding remarks
- 20:30 - Social Dinner
- Thursday, June 13 Attendants’ Departure Day
- 9:30 - SPEAKERS Round table
- Friday, June 14 Speakers’ Departure Day