The Best Proof is Experience: Meditation, Technoscience, and Humanity

a Meditatio seminar

Science and technology are shaping the lifestyles and environments of today’s knowledge and innovation societies. But, how are we humans shaping science and technology? 

Which are the metaphors and values that drive current scientific research and technological development?

This seminar focuses on what experiential wisdom practices such as meditation can offer to practitioners in science and technology to ensure that human quality shines through scientific research and technological development, and that the fruits of science and technology become a true witness of human well-being and of great respect for all life forms and the environment.

The seminar brings together scholars with an interest in the mindful, contemplative practice of science and technology, to discuss on the necessary human quality of tomorrow’s technoscientists.

Registration: €20 (€30 after 20 Oct)
 

Speakers:
 

• Jorge Wagensberg. PhD in Physics, profes-sor at UB, museologist, science communica-tor, former director of Barcelona’s Cosmo-Caixa Science Museum. 
   
• Michelle Francl. PhD in Chemistry, professor at Byrn Mawr Callege (USA), contemplative practice fellow of the Association for Con-templative Mind in Higher Education. 
   
• Laurence Freeman OSB. Benedictine monk, internationally recognised spiritual leader, director of the World Community for Christ-ian Meditation (WCCM). 
   
• Josep Maria Basart. PhD in Informatics, MSc in Philosophy, lecturer at UAB on Informa-tion and Communications Engineering Ethics. 
   
• Jaume Agustí-Cullell. PhD in Physics, former scientist at CSIC’s Artificial Intelligence Re-search Institute, vice-president of the Vivari-um Foundation, lecturer at the Center for the Study of Wisdom Traditions (CETR). 
   
• Marco Schorlemmer. PhD in Informatics, scientist at CSIC’s Artificial Intelligence Re-search Institute, WCCM’s national coordina-tor for Catalonia and Spain.