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Post-Graduate Certificate Course in Mind, Thinking & Creativity

Post-Graduate Certificate Course at Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia

Mind, Thinking & Creativity

November 6-8, 2017

 

Mind is humanity's highest developed instrument for seeking knowledge. It is the master tool that we use to comprehend the present, remember the past, and anticipate and plan for the future. From the act of striking two flints together to create fire to combining strings of 1s and 0s to design the code for supercomputers, mind has enabled humanity to create remarkable technologies and organized global institutions. The mind is the unifying foundation on which humanity’s entire social evolution is based. To understand this vital instrument better, the World Academy of Art & Science and World University Consortium have launched a ground-breaking project to explore Mind, Thinking and Creativity. A greater understanding of the nature of mind, its ways of knowing, the limits to thinking and rationality, mind's untapped potential, the workings of creativity and genius are essential for addressing the challenges confronting humanity today.  

In April 2016 WAAS and WUC, along with partnering organizations IACP, IUC, DHUC, and MSS organized a four-day roundtable on Mind, Thinking and Creativity 2016 at Dubrovnik, Croatia for to explore fundamental questions. The meeting was attended by experts from different fields of natural and social science, including medicine, neuroscience, engineering, psychology, sociology, economics, law, and philosophy. Video recordings, presentations and papers for the roundtable are available here.

The enthusiastic interest generated by the Dubrovnik meeting spurred efforts of WAAS and the World University Consortium to commence work on a on-line course on this subject which is now underway. A report on last year's meeting including videos and presentations was included in the Academy's July 2016 newsletter.

Roundtable 2 -- November 2017 at Dubrovnik

The second roundtable on Mind, Thinking & Creativity is being conducted by the World University Consortium, the World Academy of Art & Science, the Mother's Service Society, Person-Centered Approach Institute, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy and the Inter-University Centre from November 6-8, 2017 at Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

The program is an endeavour to rediscover the marvellous capacities of mind as humanity has originally discovered, developed and applied them. It aims to broaden the range and enhance the quality of our thinking by making conscious the implicit assumptions and barriers that confine it within narrow boundaries and the characteristic types of errors and omissions they give rise to.

The meeting will examine and evaluate the nature of mental processes, the capacity of mental faculties and characteristics, errors and limitations in the way they are utilized. The objective is for participants to understand the way mind works and ways it can work more effectively and creatively to see greater possibilities and actualize them. Concise case studies from different fields will be presented and discussed in order to develop insights and draw conclusions on the characteristics and limitations of mind. The meeting will explore ways to promote integrated forms of thinking that will foster original thinking, creativity and intuitive ways of knowing.

As before the proceedings will be recorded and broadcast live on-line as well as hosted on our websites for free access later.

To register for the course, please click here

For more information, please contact support@worldacademy.org

Roundtable Guidelines

  1. The purpose of the presentations is to generate discussion. Presentations should be concise, suggestive and thought-provoking rather than explanatory or argumentative.
  2. The first 20 minutes and last 10 minutes of each session will be reserved for presentations and comments by the presenters. Each speaker will have 15 minutes for presentation. Each panelist will have 5 minutes to comment, supplement or raise questions.
  3. Presenters are requested to send a PowerPoint or text summary of their presentation to support@worldacademy.org
  4. The purpose of the presentations is to provide raw material for the discussants to examine and evaluate in order to develop insights and draw conclusions regarding the nature of mental processes, the capacity of mental faculties and characteristics, errors and limitations in the way they are utilized.
  5. Presenters are requested to withhold their own observations and conclusions until the end of each session after the discussants have had an opportunity to consider the material.
  6. The subject of each session is how the mind works to arrive at knowledge or error. The topic is only an occasion. Therefore, presenters should strive to provide examples of characteristics premises and conclusions and the logic on which they are based, rather than on the specific details of each topic.
  7. Discussants are requested to confine their comments to three minutes each, so that all participants have an opportunity to speak at least once in each session.
  8. Discussants are requested to focus their comments and questions on mind, thinking and creativity rather than on the topics under discussion.
  9. Each comment should seek to clarify, supplement or complement those that precede it, rather than to agree or disagree with what has already been said.

Note on Certification

Certificates of Completion will be issued by Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik for students attending the course. Certificates of Participation will be issued by World Academy of Art & Science. Additionally, 5 ECTS credits will be issued by Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb, Croatia (DHUC) for students who submit an obligatory essay (10-20 pages) and pay 100 euros. The essay will be approved by Prof. Goran Bandov, Associate Professor and Vice Dean of DHU. Please write to support@worldacacdem.org, if you would want to earn the ECTS.

Course Directors and Coordinators

Goran Bandov,
Associate Professor and Vice Dean, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb, Croatia

Garry Jacobs,
CEO, World Academy of Art & Science; Chair of the Board and CEO, World University Consortium; Vice President, The Mother’s Service Society, Social Science Research Institute, India; Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Person-Centered Approach Institute, Italy; Managing Editor, Cadmus Journal

Alberto Zucconi,
President, Person-Centered Approach Institute, Italy; Treasurer, World Academy of Art & Science; Secretary General, World University Consortium

Participants

Jane Allen-Brown - Psychotherapist, Musician and Patron, Laszlo Institute

Pooja Asokan - Student, Primrose School, India

Saulo Jose Casali Bahia - Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil; Member, WAAS Board of Trustees

Carlos Blanco (Online) - Professor of Philosophy, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain; Chemist and Egyptologist; Former Visiting Fellow, Harvard University; Founder, Altius; Fellow, WAAS

Kannoth Jacob Boney - Free Lance Trainer & Faculty, Indian Navy, Kerala Police Academy & Colleges

Francis Brassard – Associate Dean, Professor of Philosophy, Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia, Croatia

Ana Bukmir - Student, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

Chandrasekaran (Online) - Senior Research Fellow, The Mother's Service Society, India; Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of India

Joe St Clair - Executive Director, The Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research; Freelance Writer

Dóra Damjanović - Student, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

Mia Despotović - Student, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

MSR Dev - Former Director & Scientist, ISRO; Chief Patron, Global Institute of Integral Management Studies, India

Drenka Dobrosavljević - Editor of Scientific Broadcasts, Radio Televizija Vojvodine, Serbia

Rodolfo Fiorini - Academic Scientist, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Perla Frgačić - Student, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

Bruno Korea Gajski - Faculty, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

Heron Jose Gordilho - Professor of Environmental Law, Federal University of Bahia, Salvador, Brazil; Fellow, WAAS

Gabrijela Gošović - Student, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

Robert Hoffman - President, whatIf? Technologies Inc.; Member, Club of Rome; Fellow, WAAS

Mario Hytten - Chief Executive Officer, Planetaire AB, Captimax Sports Media, Sweden

Senthil Inbarajan - Software Professional, India

Tom Jose - Chief Information Officer, Global Institute of Integral Management Studies, India

Ema Leto - Student, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

Winston Nagan - Chairman of the Board, WAAS; Professor of Law, University of Florida; Director, WUC

Marta Neškovic – Doctoral student, Serbia; Junior Fellow, WAAS

Rajendra Pachuri - President, World Sustainable Development Forum; Member, Board of Trustees, WAAS

Natalia Pogozheva - Chairman of the Board, Ducatt, Ukraine

Dejan Raković – Professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Belgrade, Serbia

Janani Ramanathan (Onine) - Associate Fellow, WAAS; Senior Research Analyst, The Mother’s Service Society

Naren Aravindraj Senthil - Student, PSBB Millennium School, India

Subiksha Senthil - Student, PSBB Millennium School, India

Vani Senthil - Research Analyst, The Mother’s Service Society, India

Bojana Skorc – Professor, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Montenegro

Ivo Šlaus - Honorary President, WAAS; Vice Chair of IUC Council; Dean, Dag Hammarskjold University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb: Director, WUC

S.S. Sreejith - CEO, Global Institute of Integral Management Studies, India

Andrea Tomšić - Student, Dag Hammarskjöld University College of International Relations and Diplomacy, Zagreb

Eladio Joaquin Valencia Garcia - Managing Director and Founding Partner, Techedge Digital Startups

Nov. 6, 2017

9:00 – 9:15 am

Introduction to the Roundtable

Ivo Slaus & Garry Jacobs

9:15 – 10:30 am

Observation & Mimesis: Invention of Agriculture & Green Revolution

Moderator: Senthil Inbarajan

Panelist: S. S. Sreejith

10:30 – 11:00 am

Break

 

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Mind and the Power of Organization

Presenter: Marta Neskovic (Presentation)

Moderator: Garry Jacobs

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Technological Innovation, Commercial Creativity & Social Change

Presenter: Vani Senthil (Presentation)

Moderator: MSR Dev

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Unraveling Complexity: Problem of Climate Change

Moderator: Rajendra Pachauri (Presentation)

Panelist: Heron Gordilho (Presentation)

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Break

 

4:00 – 5:30 pm

Social Conceptions: Origins and Basis for Law

Moderator: Winston Nagan

Moderator: Saulo Bahia

Nov. 7, 2017

9:00 – 9:15 am

Meditation on Infinity

 

9:15 – 10:30 am

Logic of Matter: Wave-Particle Duality, Observer Effect, Non-locality

Moderator: Ivo Slaus

Panelist: Bojana Skorc

10:30 – 11:00 am

Break

 

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Evidence-based Reasoning: Silver Blaze

Presenter: Marta Neskovic

Moderator: Garry Jacobs

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Models & Measurements: GDP

The Recalcitrant Rod

Moderator: Robert Hoffman (Paper)

Moderator: Rodolfo Fiorini

1:00 – 2:00 pm

Lunch

 

2:00 – 3:30 pm

Reason & Logic as instruments of Creativity

Moderator: Francis Brassard

Online Presenter: Carlos Blanco

3:30 – 4:00 pm

Break

 

4:00 – 5:30 pm

Logic of Life: Concepts of Health and Disease; the Placebo Effect

Moderator: Alberto Zucconi

Online Presenter: M. Chandrasekaran (Presentation)

Nov. 8, 2017

9:00 – 9:15 am

Meditation on Freedom

Eladio Valencia (Presentation)

     

9:15 – 10:30 am

Integration and Unification of Knowledge as acts of Creativity

Moderator: Dejan Rakovic

Online Presenter: Carlos Blanco

10:30 – 11:00 am

Break

 

11:00 – 12:00 pm

Human & Machine Intelligence & Creativity

Presenter: Mario Hytten (Presentation)

Moderator: Garry Jacobs

12:00 – 1:00 pm

Chance, Causality and Creativity

Moderator: Rodolfo Fiorini

Online Presenter: Janani Ramanathan (Presentation)

1:15 – 2:15 pm

Lunch

 

2:15 – 3:15 pm

Conclusions about Mind, Thinking & Creativity

Moderator: Winston Nagan

3:15 – 3:45 pm

Break

 

3:45 – 5:00 pm

Recommendations for Education

Moderator: Alberto Zucconi

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