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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Looking-Glass: Wholeness in Modern Science \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday\, Vasileios Basios\, John Briggs\, Jeff Dunne\, Stuart Kauffman\, Katherine Peil Kauffman\, Paavo Pylkkänen. \n\n\n\nMarch 1 – 16\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\n6 two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn exploration of themes from the book Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs. \n\n\n\nLooking-Glass Universe takes a fascinating look at the wholeness revolution in physics\, mathematics\, chemistry\, biology and neurophysiology\, and the scientists whose converging theories are changing our understanding of how the universe works. The series will explore how far the themes of the book Looking-Glass Universe have developed since it was first published.  \n\n\n\nThe ‘looking-glass’ theories propose that we are at this very moment living in an Alice-in-Wonderland universe where each part is in fact the whole\, where scientists conducting an experiment are themselves the experiment\, and even inanimate objects contain consciousness. These theories give scientific meaning to the ancient mystical idea that the universe is One. \n\n\n\nLooking-Glass Universe by John Briggs and F. David Peat will be released in a new edition this year with physicist Jonathan Allday filling in readers on how science has evolved in the 40 years since the book first appeared. He reviews the progress towards a looking-glass view of the universe and updating aspects of the text in line with current scientific thinking. \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to announce that two of the authors\, John Briggs and Jonathan Allday\, will be presenting during this series. \n\n\n\nSessions\n\n\n\nLooking Glass UniverseWith Jonathan Allday and John BriggsSaturday March 1 \n\n\n\nDavid BohmWith Jonathan Allday and Paavo PylkkänenSunday March 2 \n\n\n\nObjectivity: The Mythical Border Between Science and ScientistsWith Jeff DunneSaturday March 8 \n\n\n\nEppur Si Muove! The Sudden–and persistent–Vortex of Ilya Prigogine and their descendantsWith Vasileios BasiosSunday March 9 \n\n\n\nHeisenberg’s Potentia: Toward a Theory of ConsciousnessWith Stuart KauffmanSaturday March 15 \n\n\n\nThe Tao of Emotional Sentience With Katherine Peil KauffmanSunday December 16
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - Heisenberg’s Potentia: Toward a Theory of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Heisenberg’s Potentia: Toward a Theory of Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Stuart Kauffman \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 15\, 202510am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 5 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWerner Heisenberg in 1958 proposed that quantum states are ‘potentia standing ghost-like between a dream and reality.’  The proposal of ontologically real potentia not obeying Aristotle’s Laws of the Excluded Middle and Non-Contradiction provides an interpretation of superpositions and answers the six mysteries of Quantum Mechanics. This suggest that potentia are real and that quantum measurement converts Possibles to Actuals.  \n\n\n\nRadin’s work with colleagues is evidence at 6.49 sigma that mind can play a role in collapse of the wave function—the conversion of Possibles to Actuals. Qualia are never in superposition. These facts suggest that conscious qualia arise upon mind’s conversion of Possibles to Actuals.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Kauffman is an American medical doctor\, theoretical biologist\, and complex systems  researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the University of Chicago\, University of Pennsylvania\, and Universitry of Calgary. He is currently emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty at the Institute of Systems Biology. He has a number of awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Wiener Medal. He is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from delf-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection\, as discussed in his book Origins of Order (1993). \n\n\n\n He has published over 350 articles and 6 books: The Origins of Order (1993)\, At Home in the Universe (1995)\, Investigations (2000)\, Reinventing the Sacred (2008)\, Humanity in a Creative Universe (2016)\, and A World Beyond Physics (2019). \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, exploring the concept that reality consists of both ontologically real ‘possibles’ (res potentia) and ontologically real ‘actuals’ (res extensa)\, Kauffman co-authored\, with Ruth Kastner and Michael Epperson\, ‘Taking Heisenberg’s Potentia Seriously.’
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