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Introduction

• Vicerector Heinz Engl
  Consciousness as an interdisciplinary theme at the university

• Dean Christian Noe
  The faculty standpoint on consciousness

• Dean Christian Noe
  Thoughts about interdisciplinarity

Session 1

• Allan Hobson
  What can brain science tell us about consciousness?

• Audience questions

• Michael Berger
  Consciousness is social and evolutionary useful

• Fred Bookstein
  An unfortunate natural experiment on consciousness

• Gustav Bernroider
  Two aspects of consciousness: action and content

• Katrin Schäfer
  Anthropology and consciousness: the search for adaptive values

• Response to discussants

• Audience questions

• Dean Christian Noe
  Summary of session 1

Session 2

• John Kihlstrom
  What revisions are necessary in scientific models of unconscious mental activity?

• Audience questions

• Lüder Deecke
  The transition between unconscious matters in the brain and conscious ones

• Rainer Maderthaner
  Psychological highlights to Kihlstroms theory

• Ludwig Huber
  Evolutionary components of consciousness

• Patrizia Giampieri-Deutsch
  Psychoanalytical and philosophical aspects

• Response to discussants

• Audience questions

• John Dittami
  Summary of session 2

Session 3

• Hellmut Wohl
  Modern brain science and theories of art

• Audience questions

• Christiane Hartnack
  A social science perspective of creativity

• John Dittami for Karl Grammer
  Chaos and creativity

• Violetta L. Waibel
  Philosophical contradictions

• Gerhard Klösch
  Neurology and creativity

• Response to discussants

• Audience questions

• Verena Winiwarter
  Summary of session 3

Session 4

• Steven Laureys
  Imaging neural activity and understanding conscious processes

• Lukas Pezawas
  What can psychiatry add to the understanding of consciousness

• Horst Seidler
  Anthropological data on brain structures associated with consciousness

• Josef Zeitlhofer
  Sleep states, neurological disease and consciousness

• Peter Kampits
  Philosophical and ethical aspects of life and death definitions

• Response to discussants

• Audience questions

• Gerd Müller
  Summary of session 4