Martin Potschka - project: phylogenic memory

Not all information that is preserved from generation to generation can be reduced to genetics. This conference focuses on one particular other type of memory which is mental and not object based; I propose to call it second phylogenic memory. One of the fundamental principles that makes this new paradigm work is telepathy. We therefore ask in the Saturday morning session: what is the evidence for telepathy and can it be reduced to known physical processes? In the Sunday morning session we then ask: do we deal with a material or an immaterial phenomenon? Incidences to which the new paradigm contributes will be discussed in the remaining sessions: biology and psychotherapy on Friday evening, social and political science as well as cultural studies on Saturday afternoon and Sunday afternoon, the evolution of information on Thursday evening. We will also discuss what semiotics can contribute to elaborate this second phylogenic memory. This is by no way an exhaustive list of subjects that are relevant, and it is planned to continue the discussion in the future. It is a principle aim of the workshop to start collect available evidence on the subject across the disciples and to find language to communicate the issues. The workshop starts with a general introduction of the subject on Thursday evening.

Date & Time	Participants			email	title

Th 21.9.06 18:00	Martin Potschka,	Vienna, Austria;		martin.potschka@univie.ac.at	Introduction [.pdf]

	EVOLUTION
19:00	Susantha Goonatilake	Sri Lanka		susanthag@hotmail.com	“Evolution of Information: Lineages in Genes, Culture and Artefact”
20:00	Hansueli F. Etter	Zürich, Switzerland		sti.jungpsych@mysunrise.ch	Evolution und Synchronizität [.pdf]

Fr 22.9.06	BIOLOGY
17:00	Anton Fürlinger		Hospital Lainz, Vienna, Austria	anton.fuerlinger@wienkav.at	Neurobiological origins of mimetic skills [.pdf]

	PSYCHOANALYSIS
18:00	Willi Just		Linz, Austria	rewi_just@hotmail.com	Synchronicity and soul stuff [.pdf]
19:00	Martin Potschka,		Vienna, Austria;	martin.potschka@univie.ac.at	Sigmund Freud on phylogenic memory [.pdf]
20:00	Robert Lippman		Elizabethtown, KY 42702, USA	Robbylippman@aol.com	Freud's Botanical Monograph Screen Memory Revisited [.pdf]

Sa 23.9.06	EXTRASENSORY INFORMATION TRANSFER
9:00	Jim Mcclenon and Martin Potschka		Elizabeth City State University, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, USA	jmmcclenon@mail.ecsu.edu, martin.potschka@univie.ac.at	Evidence for telepathy: The human values studies and experimental designs [.pdf]
10:00	Johanna Sommerfrenzel		Vienna, Austria;	jh.sommer@magnet.at	'Telepathy' - On Transmission and Transference of Unconscious Representations. A Psychoanalytic Approach [.pdf]
11:00	Peter Mulacz		Vienna, Austria	peter.mulacz@parapsychologie.info	Psi Field, Quantum Mechanical Effects -- or somewhat totally different?
12:00	Harald Walach		University of Northampton, UK	harald.walach@northampton.ac.uk	Generalised entanglement - a theoretical model for non-local phenomena in our macroscopic world [.pdf]

	MEMORY AND SOCIETY I
15:00	Tibor Szabó		University of Szeged and Lukács Circle of Szeged, Hungary	szabo@jgytf.u-szeged.hu	Collective memory on Lukács [.pdf]
16:00	Sándor Karikó		University of Szeged and Lukács Circle of Szeged, Hungary	kariko@jgytf.u-szeged.hu	Collective memory in Post-Stalinist Societies: guilt and forgiveness in transition [.pdf]
17:00	Alice Dombi and Marianna Joo		Szeged University, Hungary	mariannajoo@freemail.hu	Intercontextuality as a frame of cultural memory [.pdf]

Su 24.9.06	MIND AND MATTER
10:00	Werner Gabriel		University of Vienna, Austria	Werner.Gabriel@univie.ac.at	“Idealismus und Materialismus”
11:00	Erwin Marquit		University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA	marqu002@umn.edu	Marxism and materialism

	MEMORY AND SOCIETY II
14:00	Anita Kasabova		New Bulgarian University, Sofia, Bulgaria	anitakasabova@yahoo.com	Memory traces in 19^th Century Philosophy of Psychology: Hering on the role of traces in episodic and phylogenic memory [.pdf]
15:00	Elfriede Bonet		Vienna, Austria	a8408653@unet.univie.ac.at	The natural-cultural-order [.pdf]
16:00	Thomas Kenner		Medical University Graz, Austria	thomas.kenner@kfunigraz.ac.at	The Shadow of memory in the history of universities [.pdf]
17:00	Closing discussion

There will be a short coffee break after every lecture. Participants and guests will have the opportunity to socialize for lunch and dinner after the sessions every day. Tables will be reserved at nearby restaurants and announced during the conference.

Suplementary Material:

ISSEI 2002 key note lecture [.htm]

(by Martin Potschka; provides some introduction to the theme of the ISSEI 2004 workshop)

Innate and Social Characteristics of Language Capacity

(Chomsky, Searle and beyond) [.pdf]

(by Martin Potschka; introduces a concept related to the 2^nd phylogenic system; the paper supplements the detailed instructions)

How to Deal with Phylogenic Memory from an (Inter)Semiotic Point of View? [.pdf]

(discussison paper by Jeff Bernard)

Incidence of telepathy [.pdf]

(brief report by Martin Potschka)

Sigmund Freud on phylogenic memory [.pdf]

(article by Martin Potschka)

Phylogenic Memory: Its Role in Disordered Social Functioning [.pdf]

(article by William W. Bostock)

The 2006 conference in Vienna is a project continuation, the first meeting took place on occasion of the ISSEI 2004 conference. More details about that meeting below:

CONFERENCE

“The Narrative of Modernity:

Co-Existence of Differences”

9^th Conference of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI)

in cooperation with the University of Navarro , University of Navarro , University of Navarro ,

Pamplona, Spain; 2. - 7. August 2004

Registration and Accomodation [.html]

Detailed conference program with all workshops and dates [.doc]

(updated regularely)

The workshop "Types of phylogenic memory" (chaired by Martin Potschka)

will take place on Thursday 5.August 2004, morning and afternoon

preliminary workshop program:

Participants ISSEI2004 Pamplona		email	Title
Martin Potschka,	Vienna, Austria;	martin.potschka@univie.ac.at	1) Introduction [.pdf] 2) Sigmund Freud on phylogenic memory [.pdf]
William W. Bostock,	Univ. of Tasmania, Australia;	bostock@utas.edu.au	Phylogenic Memory: A Social Perspective [.pdf]
August Ruhs,	Univ. Vienna, Austria;	august.ruhs@univie.ac.at	'Telepathy' - On Transmission and Transference of Unconscious Representations. A Psychoanalytic Approach [.pdf]
André Michels	Luxembourg;	55 Avenue de la liberté, L-1931 Luxembourg, fax: +352-402306	Tradition, memory, historical truth: about Freud’s Moses
Eliza Slavet,	Univ. California San Diego, USA;	eliza@aya.yale.edu	Unheimliche Übertragung: Freud's Moses and the Fate of Memory [.pdf]
Ivan Mladenov,	Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria;	mladenovivan@hotmail.com	Reason Before Reasoning (The Method of Conceptualization Signs from Everyday Life) [.pdf]
Stefan Lutschinger,	Vienna, Austria;	s.lutschinger@digitaldrafts.org	Mnemic Inversions: A Lecture on Aby Warburg’s Cultural Semiotics [.pdf]
Søren Brier	Copenhagen Business School, Denmark;	sbr.lpf@cbs.dk	Cybersemiotics, self-organization, habittaking, emergence and the law of mind [.pdf]
Rajendra Prasad Bajpaj,	North Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India;	rpbajpai@nehu.ac.in	Implications of Biophotons to Consciousness [.pdf]

Illustrations on the subject of theatrum mundi:

	Title page of: Jean Bodin [1597] Universae naturae theatrum, Frankfurt/M: Wechsel

	Philander Colutius [1611] Theatrum naturae, Speyer: Matthaeus Buschweiler

	Globe theatre Robert Fludd [1619] "Ars memoriae", Lib. I, Cap. X, in: Utriusque Cosmi Historia, tomus secundus (On the Microcosm) part II, Oppenheim: John Theodore De Bry, p.55)

	Emblem book Jean Jacques Boissard [1596] Theatrum vitae humanae, with engravings by Theodore De Bry, Metz: A. Fabri

Links to material by contributing authors:

Franz Halberg, Germaine Cornelissen, George Katinas, Elena V. Syutkina, Robert B. Sothern, Rina Zaslavskaya, Julia Halberg, Francine Halberg, Yoshihiko Watanabe and Othild Schwartzkopff [2003] "Transdisciplinary unifying implications of circadian findings in the 1950s", Journal of Circadian Rhythms 1:2.

Thomas Kenner [2006] Memorandum zum Bau eines CAMPUS der Medizin Universität Graz (MUG) August/September 2006

last update:23.06.06

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