Seventh World Conference on the Future of Science 2011 - Mind: the essence of humanity

The Seventh World Conference on the Future of Science has been concerned with one of the most and exciting and rapidly-progressing areas of scientific research: the mind. Scientists of international renown have presented the latest findings on the evolution and functioning of mind – that uniquely human attribute, still largely mysterious, on which our future depends.

Emotions, decisions, the extent to which some animals have minds, the birth of beliefs, biological and artificial intelligence, mirror neurons, the force of memory, sleep and dreams, human language and mind, consciousness, mind-brain illnesses: all have been examined and discussed on the magnificent Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, 18-20 September 2011.