Meeting/Workshop
Is the CNS a mandatory prerequisite to the "basic" survival in adulthood? CANCELLED
May 1, 2019
Strasbourg (France)
INTRODUCTION
Because April Fools' Day is over, we, unfortunately, have to cancel this event.
The Neurex team hopes to see you soon during one of our future, more genuine, event ;-).
Mechanistic theories claiming that the CNS is a paramount part of the adult living human organism came to prominence in the 1st century. This theory has been later developed and supported for decades with data analysed under the scope of this hypothesis by modern neuroscientists and is still predominant today.
Recently, however, the outbreaking results of E. Kandelinthewind et al. obtained by using a revolutionary method which computes the data obtained with axial tomographic head scan in a large set of the living population showed a bewildering absence of signal. The authors hypothesized that their innovating method of data analysis gets rid of artefact signals usually obtained using classical fMRI and PET techniques. The discovery challenges the theory that the CNS is necessary for humans to survive, but also questions the very existence of the brain. Indeed, J.C. Van Damasio and colleagues, a team of anatomists who support the Kandelinthewind theory raise the hypothesis that the brain is a post-mortem artefact and that the tissue and structures observed during the autopsy are the results of post-traumatic histological growth after death.
This workshop will gather eminent pioneer scientists whose studies intend to revolutionise the entire field of Neuroscience.
PROGRAM
09.00 - 09.30: Welcome (Irish-) coffee and filing of the participants
09.30 - 09.45: Welcome address of the President
09.45 - 10.15 The human sponge theory: an adult with no brain is no fool
Robert Squarepants, Columbia University, New York, U.S.
10.15-10.45 Imaging assessment of the etiology and severity of brain drain
Mario Bross, Kyoto University, Japan
10.45 - 11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.00 Post-mortem brain synthesis: proof of concept in the zombie
Jean-Christophe Cassel, Université de Strasbourg, France
12.00 - 14.00 Lunch break
14.00-14.30 If you open your mind too much, will your brain really fall out?
Tim Minchin, University of Western Australia, Australia
14.30-15.00 Neuromarketing: the homo œconomicus does not need a brain
Mark Spencer, London School of economics, England
15.00-15.30 Who fools whom? How politics made you believe they have a brain.
Gaius Caligula, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.30 Optogenetics, a light in the empty space
Clark Kubrick, University of California, Los Angeles, U.S.
16.30-17.00 The brain conspiracy theory: how the "system" created the "brain theory"
Paul Mason, Nashville, U.S.
DATES AND VENUE
Strasbourg, May 1st 2019.
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