Santiago de Chile – Friday January 13 at 9:30 am at the Hall of Honor of the former National Congress in Santiago de Chile there will be a lecture by Pier Luigi Luisi titled “What is life?”, as part of the “Congreso del futuro”, meetings cycle on contemporary issues going on in the Chilean capital until January 14. Pier Luigi Luisi was professor of Macromolecular Chemistry at the ETH Zurich – where he studied Einstein – and conducted pioneering research in the field for 30 years. He annually promotes the international week of Cortona, where students of various scientific disciplines meet with artists, psychologists, philosophers and religious people, and he is a speaker at the Mind and Life symposia in which the Dalai Lama confronts with Western scientists on the human mind and the relationship between science and Buddhist meditation. (9Colonne)