Science & Scientist: Annual International Conference Series
(A message from Dr. B Madhava Puri, the visionary behind this conference series, from the inaugural conference Science & Scientist 2013)
SS2013
Synergy Institute Of Technology, Odisha, India
December 8, 2013 | Srila Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Goswami Maharaja (Dr. T.D. Singh)’s 76th Vyasapuja
The following selected topics may refer to an abstract or paper included in the conference proceedings (click image), in which there are more articles.
- Message from the Chairman, Inauguration of Science & Scientist Conference Series | B Madhava Puri, PhD
- A Mission Transforming Material Science Into Spiritual Science | Organizers
- 21st Century Biology Refutes Darwini Keynote paper: 21st Century Biology Refutes Darwinian Abiology an Abiology | B Niskama Shanta, PhD
- Science and Its Limitations | S. K. Patra, PhD
- Protein Folding at Single-Molecule Level | Amar Nath Gupta, PhD
- Science, Religion & Society | Sarat Chandra Das, PhD
- Mother Nature and Environment: An alternate solution | Alak Kumar Patra
- Failure of Darwinian Evolution as well as Structuralism leading to a Cognitive and Spiritual Revolution in Biology | B Vijnana Muni, PhD
- The nature and scope of soul – the network connecting the body with the Spirit | Karthigayan, P., PhD
- Understanding Life: A Holistic Approach | Abhimanyu Mohanta, Ph.D. and Rashmi Ranjan Jena, M.Phil
- Bio-psychosocial-spiritual model: What Bhagavad-Geeta says? | Rajeev Kumar
- God and Consciousness | Rahul Jain
- Soul Hypothesis | Shubra De
SS2014
P.B. Siddhartha College of Arts & Science, Andhra Pradesh, India
November 28-29, 2014
The following selected topics may refer to an abstract or paper included in the conference proceedings (click image), in which there are more articles.
- Daring To Defy Darwin | B Madhava Puri, PhD
- Dissecting Reductionism in Abiology | B Niskama Shanta, PhD
- Comparative Study of the Emerging Concept of Sentience in Modern Biology, Western Philosophy and Vedanta | B Vijnana Muni, PhD
- Five Steps from Science Laboratory to Science of Mind | A. K. Mukhopadhyay, MD
- Social Behaviour in Bacteria | Madhab K. Chattopadhyay, PhD
- Sedimentation Experiments Refute Geochronology and Darwinism | Prashant Reddy, PhD
- Some Fundamental Differences between Living Beings and Lifeless Matter | Syamala D. Hari, PhD
- Ascension in the Levels of Cognition and Impact on DNA and Healing | Sundeep Mishra, MD, DM Cardiology, FACC, FSCAI
- Acceptance of Vedic Concept of Passing the Effects of Actions (Karma) in Next Generation, Through the Eye of Molecular Biology Biology | Mohan Kharel, PhD
- A Holistic Approach to Ayurveda | Deba Prasad Dash, MD(Ay.)
- Back to Home | Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Goswami Maharaja
- Free Will of the Jiva Soul | Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Maharaja
SS2015
D.A.V. Sushil Kedia Vishwa Bharati, Lalitpur, Nepal
April 17-18, 2015
In partnership with: Nepal Bharat Friendship Society & Central Dept. of Biotechnology, Tribhuvan University
The following selected topics may refer to an abstract or paper included in the conference proceedings (click image), in which there are more articles.
- The Logic Of Life | B Madhava Puri, PhD
- Consciousness is Beyond the Grasp of Reductionism | B Niskama Shanta, PhD
- Sentience, Information and the Vedantic Concept of Reality | B Vijnana Muni, PhD
- The “Non-Local Self” is the Key! | Basuthkar J. Rao, PhD, FNA, FASc, FNASc
- Functional Geometry and Neuronal Basis of Consciousness | Sisir Roy, PhD
- Selfhood and Fear of Death: Reflections from a practitioner of Cognitive Science | Garga Chatterjee, MD, PhD
- Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance and Branching of the Central Dogma: Two recent revelations in the molecular basis of Inheritance | Rakesh K. Mishra, PhD
- Bacterial Sentience: Brain is not the Source of Mind | Rajani Malla, PhD
- Embryonic Origin of Heart Beat in Mammals: A mystery | Sonali Bhakta & Shonkor Kumar Das, PhD
- Superpowers and the Stubborn Illusion of Separation | Dean Radin, PhD
- The Balancing Role of Entropy and Syntropy | Ulisse Di Corpo, PhD and Antonella Vannini, PhD
- Sleep and Its Impact on Consciousness and Health | Sundeep Mishra, MD, DM Cardiology, FACC, FSCAI
- Review on Ayurvedic Concept of Atma (Soul) | Sushanta Sahu and Deba Prasad Dash, MD(Ay.)
- Experimental Philosophy, Astral Projection and the Science of Spiritual Biology | John Yates, PhD
- The Highest End | Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Goswami Maharaja
- Devotion and its Glories | Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Maharaja
- Free Will and Self Determination | Tariq Muneer
SS2016
Bangalore University, Karnataka, India
August 26-27, 2016
SS2017
Nepal Pragya Pratisthan, Kathmandu, Nepal
August 18-19, 2017
Conference theme:
Working Together Toward a Spiritual Science of the Conscious Self
SS2018
KIIT Deemed to be University, Odisha, India
October 26-27, 2018
Conference theme:
Exploring Beyond the Limits of Physical Sciences to Understand Life, Its Origin, Its Purpose, & Biodiversity
SS2019
Conference theme: Understanding the Source & Nature of Consciousness & Life
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
June 15-16, 2019
This conference welcomed speakers from the Third Way of Evolution (František Baluška and John Torday), Scientific and Medical Network (Joan Walton), International Society for Science and Religion (Michael Reiss), as well as cell biologists (Brian J Ford), Hegelian philosophers (Robert M Wallace), and others, to discuss topics including plant intelligence, cellular sentience, holistic approaches to science, the philosophy of G.W.F. Hegel, Bhagavat Vedanta philosophy, and more.
Full articles on the following topics are included in the conference proceedings (click image).
- Subjective Evolution of Consciousness | B Madhava Puri, PhD
- From Molecular Bioelectronics, via Cellular Sentience & Consciousness, up to Plant Cognition & Intelligence | František Baluška, PhD
- Physics Transcended: Cell Intelligence & the Nurture of Healing | Brian J. Ford
- Consciousness, from the Cell to the Cosmos | John S. Torday, PhD
- Evolutionary and Other Understandings of the Origin, Evolution, and Meaning of Life | Michael Reiss, PhD
- Science of a Living Universe (Reflections on the Gaia Worldview) | John J. Kineman, PhD
- A Comparative Study on Life and Consciousness as Described by Modern Science and Vedanta | Medicharla V. Jagannadham, PhD
- Life is a Wild Story | J. Scott Jordan, PhD
- A Scientific Critique to the Ontological View of an Organism as a Complex Machine | Marehalli G. Prasad, PhD
- 21st Century Biology is Turning towards Wholistic and Sentient Concepts | B Vijnana Muni, PhD
- There Will Never be a Newton of the Blade of Grass | B Niskama Shanta, PhD
- Pushing Back the Frontiers of Knowing beyond Materialist Science: Revisiting Ideas of Consciousness | Joan Walton, PhD
- Science as an Aspect of God | Robert M. Wallace, PhD
- Why Life Cannot be Seen as a Machine Working on Physical Laws | Sumangala Devi Dasi, PhD
- Artificial Intelligence Explains Why Life Comes Only from Life | Syamala D Hari, PhD
SS2020
SS2021
Conference theme: Difference between Artificial & Natural Intelligence
Online | December 30-31, 2021
SS2022
Conference theme: Difference between Artificial & Natural Intelligence – II
Hybrid | Online and at Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, West Bengal, India
December 12-13, 2022
See each video description for a full list of speakers, talk titles, clickable timestamps, and links to slides/articles. Here are some selected talk topics:
- Is a Computer Smarter than a Fruit Fly (Drosophila)? | B Madhava Puri, PhD
- Sentient-Machine Advocates are Probably not as Intelligent as They Think | B Niskama Shanta, PhD
- Two Tales of Cognitive Science: Analytical and Phenomenological | Navneet Chopra, PhD
- Intelligence in Nature — Its Importance in Understanding ‘Source of Life’ and Reality | B Vijnana Muni, PhD
- The Paradox in Artificial Intelligence: Looking to Artificial Consciousness | Rajakishore Nath, PhD
- The Difference Between Dance Performed by Human Being and Robot | Uma Anantani, PhD
- Intelligence: Natural versus Artificial – Critical Instabilities are the Key to Understanding Natural Creative Intelligence | Alex Hankey, PhD
- Artificial Intelligence vs Natural Intelligence – A System Approach | Sumangala Devi Dasi, PhD
- Dennett on Intelligent Tools | Abhishek Yadav and Ranjan Kumar Panda, PhD
- Limitations of Artificial Intelligence in Human Medicine | Sundeep Mishra, MD
- Artificial Intransigence | Brian J Ford
- Bacterial Intelligence and AI | Sisir Roy, PhD
- Biology Transcends the Limits of Computation | Perry Marshall
- Robots are Mere Toys in the Hands of Programmer | Sundeep Krishna Das & Damayanti Devi Dasi
- Can Facilitating ‘Woman’s Consciousness’ Save Us from Falling Prey to the AI-Linked Transhumanism Movement? | Tina Lindhard, PhD
- Difference Between Artificial and Natural Intelligence: A Philosophical Understanding of Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, PhD | Jayanti P Sahoo, PhD
SS2023
Conference theme: Life & Cognition at the Intersection of Science, Philosophy, & Religion
Online | December 17, 2023
- Purposive Explanations Are More Useful For Identifying Lower-Level Activity In Living Systems Than The Other Way Round | Denis Noble, CBE, PhD, FRS
- Superseding the Synaptic Network: How Cellular Complexity Transcends the Digital Neuron | Brian J Ford, Hon FRMS, Hon FLS
- Death & Desire: Negativity at the Foundation of Life | B Mdhava Puri, PhD
- Understanding the Vedāntic View on the Difference between Life & Non-Life | B Niskam Shanta, PhD
- Emotional Intelligence in Cows | B Vijnan Muni, PhD
- The Problem of Embodied Consciousness in the Lens of Vedāntic View of Consciousness | Rajakishore Nath, PhD
- Journey into Mind – DNA – Consciousness | Anandi Ravinath, MS
- Evolution is Cognitive Thermodynamics | J Scott Turner, PhD
- Complexity Theory & Purposiveness | Alicia Juarrero, PhD
SS2024
Conference theme | Systems Biology: The Scientific Understanding of Life Beyond Reductionism
Online | December 08, 2024
SS2025
Conference theme | Considering a Hegelian Dialectical Approach to the Science and Philosophy of Biology
Online | Sunday, December 06, 2025
