“Exploring Beyond the Limits of Physical Sciences to Understand Life, Its Origin, Its Purpose and Biodiversity”

Conference Themes

SCIENCE OF SPIRITUAL BIOLOGY

1. Cognitive Biology
2. Self-Determination and Freewill
3. Body, Mind and Consciousness
4. Understanding Biodiversity from 21st Century Biology
5. Vedantic View of ‘Life and Its Origin’

SCIENTIFIC CRITIQUE OF PHYSICAL SCIENCES

1. Difference Between Organism and Machine
2. Failure of Genetic Determinism – Life Beyond Genes
3. Lessons from Hard and Easy Problems of Consciousness
4. Objective vs. Subjective Evolution
5. Why Biology is Beyond Physical Sciences?

Location: Auditorium, Campus 6, KIIT Deemed to be University, Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India