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Minister Matteo Piantedosi inaugurates Biogem's "2ue Cultures" in Ariano Irpino from September 11th to 14th.

Minister Matteo Piantedosi inaugurates Biogem's "2ue Cultures" in Ariano Irpino from September 11th to 14th.

Minister Matteo Piantedosi inaugurates Biogem's 'Le 2ue Cultures' 2025. The meeting, now in its seventeenth year, is scheduled for September 11-14 at Biogem's headquarters in Ariano Irpino. The main theme of the meeting will be "human intelligence" and, as always, will be open to the public. Organized by the Biogem Foundation and awarded the Medal of the Presidency of the Republic for the ninth time, it is part of the "Le 2ue Cultures 17th Edition Series of Events" project, realized with the contribution of the Campania Region, assigned as part of the 2025 Cultural Promotion Plan. It will also benefit from funding from the MIC (Ministry of Culture) and the patronage of RAI Campania. The meeting, scheduled for 4:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 11, will be introduced by Biogem President Ortensio Zecchino. This will be followed by a greeting from Fabio Florindo, President of the INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology), the first of 30. Big names representing both branches of knowledge. A high-impact start, therefore, for a particularly rich first day, which will delve into the thematic heart of the 2025 edition, thanks to a lecture on "consciousness as a characteristic of the human intellect," by psychiatrist and essayist Vittorino Andreoli. This topic evokes futuristic scenarios, linked to the ongoing era of Artificial Intelligence, analyzed, in their legal implications, by professor and former magistrate Amedeo Santosuosso, in a presentation entitled "Deciding with AI: Artificial and Natural Intelligence in Law." The intense first day will conclude with the music of violinist Simon Zhu, winner of the 2023 Paganini Prize.

On Friday morning, the meeting will be transferred to Bisaccia, where the newly formed "Friends of the Two Cultures" association (chaired by architect Laura De Magistris) and the Municipality of Bisaccia will accompany the Meeting speakers on a journey to discover the Ducal Castle and the Archaeological Museum of the Irpinia town. This will be a tribute to one of their "former" visitors, the poet Torquato Tasso, celebrated this year on the 430th anniversary of his death. This will be a poetic preview of a long afternoon session, which, starting at 4:30 pm, will feature the participation of Luciana Vaccaro, President of the Conference of Swiss University Rectors ("Plural Intelligences: The Challenge of University Teaching to Develop the Talents of the Future"). This will be followed by a lecture by neuroimmunologist Gianvito Martino, scientific director of the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, on "What is life between nature and culture?" The event will conclude with a roundtable discussion on "Artificial Intelligence and Medicine" between legal philosopher and bioethicist Laura Palazzani and digital health expert Eugenio Santoro from the Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research in Milan. The evening will feature the duo 'PiCello Bros', consisting of cellist Francesco Pepicelli and his brother, pianist Angelo.

Saturday afternoon will open with the presentation of the latest novel by Neapolitan writer Maurizio de Giovanni, interviewed by journalist Marco Demarco about his 'Il pappagallo muto'. The final three sessions are more nonfiction-based, all focusing on artificial intelligence. Specifically, physicist Fabio Pistella will present "Guarantees in the Use of Artificial Intelligence Agents: A Transparent Curriculum." Professor Emeritus Daniel Andler of the Sorbonne University in Paris is expected to give an in-depth presentation on "The Double Enigma: Human Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence." Professor Luca Mari will close the afternoon session with a presentation titled "In Dialogue with Artificial Intelligence: Discovering to Understand, Understanding to Decide." Sunday, as per tradition, begins in the morning, with electronics engineer Piero Trivellato opening with "ChatGPT&Friends: Reflections on the New Paradigm of Generative AI." The morning session, closing with "Natural and Synthetic Memories" by neuroscientist and physicist Antonino Cattaneo, will be interspersed with the refined humanism of historian of political thought Gennaro Carillo ("Between Cunning and Wisdom, Myth and Philosophy. Forms of Intelligence among the Greeks"). Neuroscientist Giorgio Vallortigara will open the final afternoon session of the meeting with the topic "Intelligence and Consciousness in Humans and Other Animals." This will be followed by a discussion on international current affairs, with the usual space hosted by Ambassador Cosimo Risi, this year in conversation with his colleague Michele Valensise, currently President of the Institute of International Affairs in Rome, on "One Year After Donald Trump's Election: The European Union and the New Chancellor's Germany." The subsequent roundtable discussion on "The Mind-Body Relationship, Beginning with the Book of "The Self and Its Brain" by Karl R. Popper and John C. Eccles, was particularly well attended. Physicist Antonio Ereditato, philosopher Michele Farisco and Sandro Nannini, and neurologist Filippo Tempia will participate, moderated by Biogem President Ortensio Zecchino. The closing address, this year entrusted to Michael Young, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, will be "Behavioral, Physiological, and Environmental Regulators of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms in Drosophila." After President Zecchino's farewell address, which previewed the title of the 18th edition, scheduled for September 2026, the conference will close with "The Music of Cinema," courtesy of Nello Salza on the trumpet.

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