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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:August 2 – 24\, 20258 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\n9:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.Each session: Full Price €15\, Member’s Discount €13.50Series tickets available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2\n\n\n\nFollowing an illuminating introduction to Bohm’s revolutionary physics\, we embark on an exploration of potentiality and its intricate relationship with actuality\, drawing upon the insights of both Bohm and Charles Burton Martin; we will delve deeply into the terrain of panpsychism\, examining consciousness not as a mere biological phenomenon confined to humans and animals\, but as a fundamental architectural principle woven into the very fabric of physical reality; we investigate whether Bohmian quantum theory might inspire new forms of psycho-physical laws; we will examine the conception of ‘strict monism’ and its relation to Bohm’s ideas of undivided wholeness; we will illuminate Bohm’s distinctive philosophy of science as manifested in his causal interpretation of quantum theory; we will consider the implications of quantum materials on humanity’s evolutionary trajectory\, examining how these emerging technologies may fundamentally reshape our civilizational future; and we provide an introduction to a new worldview: the Dynamic Universe—a proposal that provides a new way of understanding relativistic phenomena. \n\n\n\nEvery session will have openings for question / answer and discussion with presenters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 2Introduction to Bohm’s PhysicsJonathan AlldaySunday August 3Potentialities in Nature and the Nature of Potentialities: David Bohm’s 1951Quantum Theory and C. B. Martin’s Dispositionalist MetaphysicsAlex Carruth \n\n\n\nSaturday August 9The Impact of (Quantum) Materials on the Development of Humanity and of Shaping our FutureSaskia FischerSunday August 10On PanpsychismSanttu Heikkinen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 16The Dynamic Universe: A New Holistic World ViewTuomo Suntola \n\n\n\nSunday August 17 Consciousness\, Reduction and Quantum Psycho-Physical Laws  Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 23Bohm’s Philosophy of Science in his Causal Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsMarja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila \n\n\n\nSunday August 24 Not Even One  William Seager \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral information\n\n\n\nAll sessions will last for approximately 2 hours\, and will be held over zoom.us. The session structure may vary from speaker to speaker\, but in general participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenter and in some cases there will be breakaway discussion groups. 
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - Potentialities in Nature and the Nature of Potentialities
DESCRIPTION:Potentialities in Nature and the Nature of Potentialities: David Bohm’s 1951 Quantum Theory and C. B. Martin’s Dispositionalist Metaphysics \n\n\n\nwith Alex Carruth (and Paavo Pylkkänen) \n\n\n\nSunday August 39:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis talk explores the nature of potentiality and its relation to actuality through the views of David Bohm and Charles Burton Martin. \n\n\n\nBohm suggested in his 1951 textbook Quantum theory that quantum properties ought to be understood as potentialities that are actualized when they interact with a suitable\, classically describable system (such as a measuring apparatus\, but in principle any classically describable system\, for instance a crystal at the bottom of the sea). Central to Bohm’s view is a conception of potentialities as having three key features: they are incompletely defined; opposing and probabilistic. Furthermore\, the view implies that quantum theory presupposes the level of classical physics\, which raises questions about the completeness of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nInterestingly\, the dispositionalist metaphysics proposed by philosopher Charlie Martin has in some ways similar views about both the nature of potentialities and how they relate to manifest being\, opening up the possibility that the situation in quantum mechanics may be an example of a more general metaphysical principle. \n\n\n\nFirst\, Martin’s unorthodox view of dispositions as massively multi-track and as coming to manifest through reciprocal\, mutual partnerings seems to accommodate the three key features Bohm identifies in a way which neither orthodox views of dispositions nor non-dispositionalist views of properties can. \n\n\n\nFurthermore\, Martin rejects the notion of pure potentiality on the grounds that to move from potency to act\, some determinate\, manifest being is required (cf. Bohm’s classically describable system). A world of pure potentiality would be a world of ‘promissory notes’ which are never made good on. He also rejects the notion of pure manifest or actualised being\, on the grounds that being that is ‘in pure act’\, that is\, being that always manifests everything of which it is capable\, would actually amount to non-being (at least in the case of concrete\, material phenomena; perhaps abstract beings such as numbers might be in pure act). In Bohmian terms this is like the question whether the explicate order could exist without the implicate order. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Carruth is a metaphysician\, philosopher of science and philosopher of mind. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Durham in 2013. Amongst other things\, he works on the nature of properties; emergence and reduction; causation; consciousness; mental causation\, and perception. He is currently a senior researcher at the University of Turku in the Research Council of Finland project Temporality in Predictive Processing and is the PI of the Kone Foundation project Navigating Complexity: Between Emergence and Reduction at the University of Helsinki.
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