Mind, Brain, and Consciousness

Conference

Perspectives from Indian Knowledge System

Organized by the Indian Knowledge System and Mental Health Applications (IKSMHA) Centre, IIT Mandi

About The Conference

The conundrum of finding a consistent first principle causal mechanism for the origin of consciousness and conscious experience has virtually baffled the greatest thinkers of our time. Despite ongoing advances in consciousness studies, we have not been able to answer the so-called ‘hard problem’ of consciousness satisfactorily. Interestingly, Indian Knowledge Systems (IKS) have addressed the issue within a holistic framework without necessarily adhering to the physicalist and reductionist paradigms of modern science. Specifically, IKS provides a number of interventions from the yoga sutras, Sankhya, Ayurveda, and other traditional texts. These interventions may include yoga, meditation, ayurveda, and other Indian performing arts. Thus, there is a great need of imbibing the insights from IKS and its numerous interventions in order to solve the fundamental questions in relation to consciousness and conscious experience for cognitive wellness and mental health. The international conference, “Mind, Brain, and Consciousness (MBC): Perspectives from Indian Knowledge System,” organized by the Indian Knowledge System and Mental Health Applications (IKSMHA) Centre, envisages a healthy discussion among scientists and philosophers on consciousness as well as different IKS interventions for cognitive wellness and mental health.

The conference will be the first of its kind to bring together scholars from all walks of life, i.e., neuroscientists, psychologists, AI and robotics researchers, physicists, mathematicians, biologists, computer scientists, traditional scholars and practitioners of Indian Knowledge Systems, etc. We welcome papers and posters from all the areas mentioned above. The conference will have plenary talks, parallel sessions (for paper and poster presentations), and brainstorming panel discussions.

Important Dates

Call for abstracts starts: 1st March 2023
Deadline for abstracts submission: 15th July 2023
Results of accepted abstracts: 30th September 2023
Deadline for camera-ready submission: 30th October 2023
Deadline for registration: 30th November 2023
Conference: 14th, 15th, and 16th December 2023

Registration Fees

India
Students INR 3000
Faculty/ Researcher / Industry INR 6000
Abroad
Students USD 150
Faculty/ Researcher / Industry USD 300

Guidelines for Paper Submission

Conference accepts extended abstracts and/or full-lengths papers based on original work. The extended abstracts, if accepted, will be published as web proceedings on the conference webpage. In contrast, full-length papers, if accepted, will be published as proceedings with a publisher (e.g., Springer). Extended abstracts should be limited toa maximum of 1000 words including 2 figures and 2 tables (references are not counted in the word limit). Full-length papers should follow the Springer template. In both extended abstracts and full-length papers, excluding references and citations, the amount of similarity to published sources should not be more than 15% and similarity to a single source should not be more than 4%.


Submission Format

In order for your paper to be included in the Proceedings, Please follow the springer template below are the links.

Latex template:
https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19338728/data/v1

Microsoft Word template:
https://resource-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/content/19338734/data/v1


Submission Method

Authors can submit their abstract and full-length papers through the following link.
https://easychair.org/cfp/mbcc2023

This conference invites submission that are as per but not limited to the following themes:



Host


Conference Partners

Talks

Team

Prof. Stuart Hameroff,

University of Arizona
Team

Prof. Subhash Kak

Oklahoma State University
Team

Dr. Anirban Bandyopadhyay

NIMS, Tsukuba, Japan
Team

Prof. Arun K. Pati

HRI Allahabad
Team

Dr. Venugopal Damrela

University of Colorado
Team

Prof. Braj Bhushan

IIT Kanpur
Team

Dr. Bhupal Dev

University of Washington
Team

Vinayak Rajat Bhatt

Chanakya University
Team

Dr. Venkata Raghavan

IIT Bhubaneshwar
Team

Prof. Joy Sen

IIT Kharagpur
Team

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya

University of Melbourne
Team

Dr Alok Bajpai

Psychiatrist Working independently and with IIT Kanpur
Team

Dr. Vadim Tuneev (Bhakti Vigyan Goswami)

Scientific Advisor, BIHS Florida

COMMITTEES

committee
Dr. Venugopal Damrela

University of Colorado

committee
Prof. Arun Sashidharan

NIMHANS

committee
Dr. Nirmalya Guha

IIT BHU

committee
Dr. Lalan Kumar

IIT Delhi

committee
Prof. Rama Jayasundar

AIIMS

committee
Dr. Uma Shankar Adluri

SIVAS

committee
Prof. Braj Bhushan

IIT Kanpur

committee
Prof. Ganpati Ramanath

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

committee
Dr. Kunal Mooley

CalTech

committee
Mr. Martin Fleming

BIHS

committee
Dr. Marieke Van Vugt

University of Groningen

committee
Mr. Gunjan Trivedi

Co-founder, Wellness Space

committee
Dr. Rajkumar Buyya

University of Melbourne

committee
Dr Alok Bajpai

Psychiatrist Working independently and with IIT Kanpur

committee
Dr. Vadim Tuneev (Bhakti Vigyan Goswami)

Scientific Advisor, BIHS Florida

committee
Prof. Stuart Hameroff

University of Arizona

committee
Prof. Arun K. Pati

HRI Allahabad

committee
Prof. H. R. Nagendra

S-Vyasa

committee
Prof. Arun Sashidharan

NIMHANS

committee
Prof. Laxmidhar Behera

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Varun Dutt

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Arnav Bhavsar

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Tulika Srivastava

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Shubhajit Roy Chowdhury

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Amit Prasad

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Aniruddha Chakraborty

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Chayan K. Nandi

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Nitu Kumari

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Jyotiranjan Beuria

IIT Mandi

committee
Dr. Kirti

IIT Mandi

Venue

The conference will be held on IIT Mandi's North campus at Kamand, Mandi District, Himachal Pradesh, India. Please read about the geography of this location here. The location is very close to a number of very popular tourist attractions.

About

Get In Touch

  • Email address

    iksmha@iitmandi.ac.in

  • Location

    IIT Mandi North Campus