Speakers list: A Scientific and Philosophical Conference on Ontological Distinction between Mechanical, Chemical & Biological Systems

SPEAKERS

Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. Serving Director, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science, NJ, USA	Logic of Life
John Jay Kineman, Ph.D. American Ecologist, and Research Affiliate at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA	Why Organisms are not only Machines?
Bal Ram Singh, Ph.D. Institute of Advanced Sciences, Dartmouth, MA, USA; Institute of Advanced Study, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India	A Vedic Approach to Develop Unified Ontological Elements for Mechanical, Chemical and Biological Systems
Sundeep Mishra, M.D. Professor of Cardiology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India	Difference between the functioning of Organic Heart and Plastic Heart
Sripad Bhakti Vijnana Muni Maharaja, Ph.D. President, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, Bengaluru, India	Vedantic Concept of life: Biology is Irreducible to Mechanics or Chemistry
Medicharla Venkata Jagannadham, Ph.D. Genomics and Proteomics Research Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India	Why the Functioning of the Cell cannot be understood by the Logic of Mechanical and Chemical Systems
Sripad Bhakti Niskama Shanta Maharaja, Ph.D. Gen. Secretary, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Institute, Bengaluru, India	How Physical Sciences can overcome the 'False Elephant'?
Deba Prasad Dash, M.D. (Ay.) Retd. Professor & Head, Dept. Panchakarma, Gopabandhu Ayurveda College, Puri, Odisha	Understanding Life beyond Machines and Chemicals
Sangeetha Menon, Ph.D. Dean, School of Humanities, Professor & Head, NIAS Consciousness Studies Programme, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Indian Institute of Science Campus, Bangalore, India	Beyond Body, and Experiencing Consciousness: Distinguishing the Ontology of the Brain and the Self
Sripad Bhakti Kamal Tyagi Maharaja Serving Devotee Scholar, Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, Nabadwip, India	Epistemic Integrity and Compatibility in Understanding Life and its Purpose ⁠— A Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Perspective on Science and Śāstra
Madhab K. Chattopadhyay, Ph.D. Retd. Genomics and Proteomics Research Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular & Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India	Bacterial Intelligence and Antibiotic Resistance
Sumangala Devi Dasi, Ph.D. (Shilpi Saxena) Center for Advanced Studies, Department of Geology, University of Delhi, Delhi, India	Thermodynamics Challenge to the Materialistic View of Origin of First Biological System
Sushim Dubey, Ph.D. Programme Officer, Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi, India	A Philosophical & Ontological Understating of Conscious and Un-consciousness with reference to Indian Philosophical System
Satish Krishna Das BNP Paribas Bank, Singapore	Why AI cannot be called as Natural Intelligence?
Alak Kumar Patra, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Dept. Civil Engineering, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, India (Member, Mechanics & Materials Group of Dept. Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology – Kharagpur, India)	Biological Evidence Against the Mechanical and Chemical Simplification of Organisms
Varanasi Ramabrahmam, Ph.D. Retd. Associate Professor of Physics, K.M. Center for P.G studies, Pondicherry, India	Ontology of Human Consciousness and Mind – A correlation of philosophical, mechanical and physicochemical systems
Lovneesh Garg, M.D. H.O.D., Dept. Radio-Diagnosis, Mohan Dai Oswal Hospital, Ludhiana, India	Defining the Ontological Distinction Between Mechanical, Chemical & Biological Systems

“As scientists attempt to understand a living system, they move down from dimension to dimension, from one level of complexity to the next lower level. I followed this course in my own studies. I went from anatomy to the study of tissues, then to electron microscopy and chemistry, and finally to quantum mechanics. This downward journey through the scale of dimensions has its irony, for in my search for the secret of life, I ended up with atoms and electrons, which have no life at all. Somewhere along the line life has run out through my fingers. So, in my old age, I am now retracing my steps, trying to fight my way back.”

:: Albert Szent-Györgyi (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937)

“From the reader's perspective, a book is composed of alphabetical letters; but the book itself did not originate from these letters. Ultimately it is from the ideas of the author that the letters of the book come to be. In the same way, the molecules of a biological organism are the result, not the origin of life. This is the difference between the order in which we come to know things (ordo cognoscendi) and the order in which something comes to be (ordo essendi).”

:: Sripad Bhakti Madhava Puri Maharaja, Ph.D. (Conference Chair & Serving Director, Princeton Bhakti Vedanta Institute of Spiritual Culture and Science)

How Life Changes Itself: The Read-Write Genome by James A. Shapiro, Ph.D.

Bacterial Intelligence