September 1 - 3, 2014

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizer:

Prof. Dr. Mihai Nadin
University of Texas at Dallas/USA

September 1 - 3, 2014

Venue:

Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg
Lehmkuhlenbusch 4
27753 Delmenhorst
Germany

Organizer:

Prof. Dr. Mihai Nadin
University of Texas at Dallas/USA

Funded by:

Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

Funded by:

Fritz Thyssen Stiftung

This session covers the Soviet/Russian contributions to a science of anticipation and will offer a unique opportunity to deal with the suppressed science of a number of distinguished researchers, partly known through their contributions to other subjects. The context is simple to define: the only accepted model of science in the Soviet Union was a trivialized understanding of causality. This was the” official science.” The so-called Marxist-Leninist dialectics accepted only cause-and-effect explanations even in areas of very subtle relations among various variables.
This limitation affected the freedom of those studying what we today call the motoric system (human performance), thinking, and human interaction. In short neuroscience and cognitive science – of interest to many distinguished scientists – were forced to trivialize and ignore complexity. The most distinguished of them did not accept the dogma. In reality, more than their colleagues from the West, they advanced hypotheses based on notions either ignored in the USA and Western Europe, or considered too broad. Excessive specialization returns valuable knowledge but also falls prey to the danger of missing the broader picture.
Those who did not succumb to the pressure of the system distinguished themselves not only through scientific integrity, but also through an originality that was rarely recognized. The session on these pioneering efforts will address the work of distinguished scientists such as P.K. Anokhin (the theory of functional systems, the early definition of feedback, in 1935, i.e., before Norbert Wiener); V.B. Schvrykov (goal-directed behavior and learning); L.E. Tsitolovsky (nervous system plasticity); A.A. Ukhtomsky (the dominanta principle , higher systems of the brain); D.N. Uznadze (formation of concepts, fundamentals of experimental psychology information processing); L.A. Orbeli (evolution in nature and informational systems), among others.
The focus is not on history, but on scientific relevance, especially on writings yet to be made known, from which present research can benefit.

Monday, September 1

09:00 – 09:20      Welcome address
                               Session: P. K. Anokhin and the Theory of Functional Systems
09:20 – 10:00      Konstantin Anokhin (Moscow, Russia)
                               Cognitome: Cognition and Anticipation in the Extended
                               Functional Systems Theory
10:00 – 10:40      Yuri Alexandrov (Moscow, Russia)
                               Cognition as Systemogenesis
10:40 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40      Evgenii Vityaev (Novosibirsk, Russia)
                               Purposefulness as a Principle of Brain Activity. Functional
                               Systems Theory
11:40 – 12:20      Lev Tsitolovsky (Tel Aviv, Israel)
                               Endogenous Generation of Goals and Homeostasis (Skype)
12:20 – 13:20      Lunch Break
13:20 – 14:00      Alexander Saltykov, Sergey Grachev (Moscow, Russia)
                               The Concept of System-Forming Factor in the Theory of
                               Functional Systems
14:00 – 14:20      General Discussion
                               Session: N. A. Bernstein and the Physiology of Activity
14:20 – 15:00      Irina Sirotkina, Elena Biryukova (Moscow, Russia)
                               Futurism in Physiology: Nikolai Bernstein, Anticipation, and
                               Kinaesthetic Imagination
15:00 – 15:40      Boris Velichkovsky (Moscow, Russia/Dresden, Germany)
                               A Prospective Outlook on Research within the Levels-of-Processing
                               Approach
15:40 – 16:00      Coffee Break 
16:00 – 16:40      Mark Latash (Pennsylvania, USA)
                               Bernstein’s Desired Future and the Physics of Human Movement (Skype)
16:40 – 17:20      Josef Feigenberg (Jerusalem, Israel)
                               Memory, Probabilistic Prognosis, and Presetting for Action (Skype)
17:20 – 18:00      Vera Talis (Moscow, Russia)
                               New Pages in the Biography of Nikolai Alexandrovich Bernstein
18:00 – 18:20      General Discussion
18:20 – 19:30      Dinner
20:30 – 21.30      Evening Meeting: Memories

Tuesday, September 2

                               Session: A. A. Ukhtomsky and the Study of the Dominant
09:20 – 10:00      Lena Zueva, Konstantin Zuev (Moscow, Russia)
                               Theory of the Dominant by A. A. Ukhtomsky and Anticipation
10:00 – 10:40      Sergey Chebanov (St. Petersburg, Russia)
                               A. A.Ukhtomsky's Idea of Chronotope as a Frame of Anticipation
10:40 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40      Andres Kurismaa (Tartu, Estonia)
                               Approaches to Anticipation in the Framework of Dominant Studies
11:40 – 12:00      General Discussion
                               Session: Anticipation - Evolutionary and Behavioral Perspectives
12:00 – 12:40      Dobilas Kirvelis, Vygandas Vanagas (Vilnius, Lithuania)
                               E. N. Sokolov’s Neural Model of Stimuli as a Cybernetic Approach to
                               Anticipatory Perception
12:40 – 14:00      Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40      Merab Tsagareli (Tbilisi, Georgia)
                               I. S. Beritashvili and Psychoneural Integration of Behavior
14:40 – 15:20      Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Yuri Natochin (St.-Petersburg, Russia)
                               From Archebiosis to Evolution of Organisms and Informational Systems
15:20 – 16:00      Inga Poletaeva, Zoya Zorina (Moscow, Russia)
                               Extrapolation Ability in Animals of Different Species and its Possible
                               Links to Exploration, Anxiety, and Novelty Seeking
16:00 – 16:20      Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:00      Aaro Toomela (Tallinn, Estonia)
                               Towards Understanding Biological, Psychological, and Cultural
                               Mechanisms of Foresight/Anticipation
17:00 – 17:40      Elena Sergienko (Moscow, Russia)
                               Anticipation in the Early Development (Skype)
17:40 – 18:00      General Discussion
18:00 – 19:00      Dinner
20:30 – 21:30      Evening Meeting: Memories

Wednesday, September 3

09:20 – 10:00      Elena Nikolaeva (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
                               Alexander Luria: Creator in the Perspective of Time
10:00 – 10:40      Fabian Labra-Spröhnle (Wellington, New Zealand)
                               The Mind of a Futurologist: The Morphology of Cognitive Anticipation
                               as a Cardinal Symptom (Skype)
10:40 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40      Mihai Nadin (Dallas, USA)
                               Anticipation in the Perspective of Time: Rediscovering the 
                               Pioneering Work of Scientists from the Previous Soviet Union
11:40 – 12:40      Final Discussion and Summary (Outputs of the Conference)
13:00 – 14:00      Lunch

This session covers the Soviet/Russian contributions to a science of anticipation and will offer a unique opportunity to deal with the suppressed science of a number of distinguished researchers, partly known through their contributions to other subjects. The context is simple to define: the only accepted model of science in the Soviet Union was a trivialized understanding of causality. This was the” official science.” The so-called Marxist-Leninist dialectics accepted only cause-and-effect explanations even in areas of very subtle relations among various variables.
This limitation affected the freedom of those studying what we today call the motoric system (human performance), thinking, and human interaction. In short neuroscience and cognitive science – of interest to many distinguished scientists – were forced to trivialize and ignore complexity. The most distinguished of them did not accept the dogma. In reality, more than their colleagues from the West, they advanced hypotheses based on notions either ignored in the USA and Western Europe, or considered too broad. Excessive specialization returns valuable knowledge but also falls prey to the danger of missing the broader picture.
Those who did not succumb to the pressure of the system distinguished themselves not only through scientific integrity, but also through an originality that was rarely recognized. The session on these pioneering efforts will address the work of distinguished scientists such as P.K. Anokhin (the theory of functional systems, the early definition of feedback, in 1935, i.e., before Norbert Wiener); V.B. Schvrykov (goal-directed behavior and learning); L.E. Tsitolovsky (nervous system plasticity); A.A. Ukhtomsky (the dominanta principle , higher systems of the brain); D.N. Uznadze (formation of concepts, fundamentals of experimental psychology information processing); L.A. Orbeli (evolution in nature and informational systems), among others.
The focus is not on history, but on scientific relevance, especially on writings yet to be made known, from which present research can benefit.

Monday, September 1

09:00 – 09:20      Welcome address
                               Session: P. K. Anokhin and the Theory of Functional Systems
09:20 – 10:00      Konstantin Anokhin (Moscow, Russia)
                               Cognitome: Cognition and Anticipation in the Extended
                               Functional Systems Theory
10:00 – 10:40      Yuri Alexandrov (Moscow, Russia)
                               Cognition as Systemogenesis
10:40 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40      Evgenii Vityaev (Novosibirsk, Russia)
                               Purposefulness as a Principle of Brain Activity. Functional
                               Systems Theory
11:40 – 12:20      Lev Tsitolovsky (Tel Aviv, Israel)
                               Endogenous Generation of Goals and Homeostasis (Skype)
12:20 – 13:20      Lunch Break
13:20 – 14:00      Alexander Saltykov, Sergey Grachev (Moscow, Russia)
                               The Concept of System-Forming Factor in the Theory of
                               Functional Systems
14:00 – 14:20      General Discussion
                               Session: N. A. Bernstein and the Physiology of Activity
14:20 – 15:00      Irina Sirotkina, Elena Biryukova (Moscow, Russia)
                               Futurism in Physiology: Nikolai Bernstein, Anticipation, and
                               Kinaesthetic Imagination
15:00 – 15:40      Mark Latash (Pennsylvania, USA)
                               Bernsteins's Desired Future and the Physics of Human Movement (Skype)
15:40 – 16:00      Coffee Break 
16:00 – 16:40      Josef Feigenberg (Jerusalem, Israel)
                               Memory, Probabilistic Prognosis, and Presetting for Action (Skype)
16:40 – 17:20      Vera Talis (Moscow, Russia)
                               New Pages in the Biography of Nikolai Alexandrovich Bernstein
17:20 - 18:00       Celebrating the English Edition of feigenberg's book about Bernstein:
                                From Reflex to the Model of Future (Translated by Julia Lonkova,
                                Edited by Eberhard Loosch and Vera Talis).
                                Original Edition: „Николай Бернштейн - Oт рефлекса к модели
                                будущего“. Москва: Смысл, 2004
18:00 – 18:20      General Discussion
18:20 – 19:30      Dinner
20:30 – 21.30      Evening Meeting: Memories

Tuesday, September 2

                               Session: A. A. Ukhtomsky and the Study of the Dominant
09:20 – 10:00      Lena Zueva, Konstantin Zuev (Moscow, Russia)
                               Theory of the Dominant by A. A. Ukhtomsky and Anticipation
10:00 – 10:40      Sergey Chebanov (St. Petersburg, Russia)
                               A. A.Ukhtomsky's Idea of Chronotope as a Frame of Anticipation
10:40 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40      Andres Kurismaa (Tartu, Estonia)
                               Approaches to Anticipation in the Framework of Dominant Studies
11:40 – 12:00      General Discussion
                               Session: Anticipation - Evolutionary and Behavioral Perspectives
12:00 – 12:40      Dobilas Kirvelis, Vygandas Vanagas (Vilnius, Lithuania)
                               E. N. Sokolov’s Neural Model of Stimuli as a Cybernetic Approach to
                               Anticipatory Perception
12:40 – 14:00      Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:40      Merab Tsagareli (Tbilisi, Georgia)
                               I. S. Beritashvili and Psychoneural Integration of Behavior
14:40 – 15:20      Tatiana Chernigovskaya, Yuri Natochin (St.-Petersburg, Russia)
                               From Archebiosis to Evolution of Organisms and Informational Systems
15:20 – 16:00      Inga Poletaeva, Zoya Zorina (Moscow, Russia)
                               Extrapolation Ability in Animals of Different Species and its Possible
                               Links to Exploration, Anxiety, and Novelty Seeking
16:00 – 16:20      Coffee Break
16:20 – 17:00      Aaro Toomela (Tallinn, Estonia)
                               Towards Understanding Biological, Psychological, and Cultural
                               Mechanisms of Foresight/Anticipation
17:00 – 17:40      Elena Sergienko (Moscow, Russia)
                               Anticipation in the Early Development of Cognition (Skype)
17:40 – 18:00      General Discussion
18:00 – 19:00      Dinner
20:30 – 21:30      Evening Meeting: Memories

Wednesday, September 3

09:20 – 10:00      Elena Nikolaeva (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
                               Alexander Luria: Creator in the Perspective of Time
10:00 – 10:40      Fabian Labra-Spröhnle (Wellington, New Zealand)
                               The Mind of a Futurologist: The Morphology of Cognitive Anticipation
                               as a Cardinal Symptom (Skype)
10:40 – 11:00      Coffee Break
11:00 – 11:40      Mihai Nadin (Dallas, USA)
                               Anticipation in the Perspective of Time: Rediscovering the 
                               Pioneering Work of Scientists from the Previous Soviet Union
11:40 – 12:40      Final Discussion and Summary (Outputs of the Conference)
13:00 – 14:00      Lunch