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SUMMARY:Temporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love with Vincent Colapietro€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTemporality and Tragedy: Irrevocable Loss and Redemptive Love \n\n\n\nwith Vincent Colapietro \n\n\n\nSaturday May 7\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA. N. Whitehead’s Process and Reality can be read as a sustained meditation on Locke’s characterization of time as ‘perpetual perishing.’ But he refuses to see time solely as an occasion of perishing. Colapietro will seize this occasion itself to reflect on time and tragedy. Is time by its very nature tragic\, entailing the irrevocable loss of whatever emerges and\, for a time\, endures in its flux? Or is time a site wherein forms of ‘ immortality’ are attainable? But of even more basic concern are several different senses of time\, above all\, the time envisioned by the most influential physicists (including Einstein) and the conception of time implicit in the activity of physicists themselves. Are physicists in time in the same sense that they so often conceive time (specifically\, time as a reversible process or even an illusory phenomenon)? That is\, is the dominant understanding of time among theoretical physicists compatible with what physicists do as agents? Colapietro will argue that agential time is an irreducible phenomenon and any attempt to explain it away (or to render it illusory) is mistaken. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVincent Colapietro is Liberal Arts Research Professor Emeritus at the Pennsylvania State University. He is presently at the Center for the Humanities (University of Rhode Island). One of his main areas of research is pragmatism\, with emphasis on Peirce. Though devoted to developing a semiotic perspective rooted in Peirce’s seminal work\, Colapietro draws upon a number of other authors and perspectives (including Bakhtin\, Jakobson\, and Bourdieu as well as such movements as phenomenology\, hermeneutics\, and deconstruction).  He is the author of Peirce’s Approach to the Self (1989)\, A Glossary of Semiotics (1993)\, Fateful Shapes of Human Freedom (2003)\, and Acción\, sociabilidad y drama: Un retrato pragmatista del animal humano (2020) as well as numerous essays. He has written on a wide range of topics\, from music (especially jazz) and cinema to psychoanalysis and deconstruction\, from art and literature to ontology and phenomenology. He has served as President of the Charles S. Peirce Society\, the Metaphysical Society of America\, and the Semiotic Society of America.
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Narcissism in Classical Jewish Sources
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nTales of Love and Narcissism in Classical Jewish Sources with Rabbi Neal Rose€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTales of Love and Narcissism in Classical Jewish Sources \n\n\n\nwith Rabbi Neal Rose \n\n\n\nSunday May 8\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThe foundational literature of many societies contains reflections on the nature of love. These sources come in the form of stories\, aphorisms\, and even theoretical discussions. Ancient Greek literature has a variety of philosophical reflections on the nature of love and narcissism. Classical Hebraic literature\, biblical and rabbinic\, evidences a lack of theoretical discussions in favor of more concrete expressions. This literature contains moral rules and regulations\, wisdom teachings\, and a great variety of stories. My presentation will center primarily on the narratives of love in both biblical and rabbinic sources. The many dimensions of love and narcissism are enacted by an array of characters such as Moses\, Sarah\, Queen Jezebel\, the Messiah\, and above all God. The theoretical aspects of the presentation are informed by the work of Martin Buber\, Franz Rosenzweig\, and Erich Fromm. (Have a Bible at hand so we can look at the material together). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\nRabbi Neal Rose taught at the University of Manitoba from 1967 to 2000. He was a member of the Departments of Judaic Studies and Religion. He also was an instructor in family therapy at the University of Winnipeg’s Department of Spiritual Care. He and his wife currently live in St. Louis\, MO where he serves as rabbinic scholar in residence at Congregation Bnai Amoona and community Chaplain.
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with John Horgan
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xojiLfdukI\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between John Horgan and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday May 119:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nThe idea that the end of science “as we know it” is near may sound absurd to many. And yet\, in the era of “Big Data and Artificial Intelligence” the limits of human insight seem to saturate\, as scientific revolutions and revelations stall. In this instalment of The Future Scientist series\, we will reflect upon the limits of knowledge\, the idea of scientific progress\, and current exciting directions in both in fundamental physics and consciousness studies. We will also discuss the role of science journalism in shaping the public perception of science in the age of selfies\, outlining future challenges and present opportunities at the intersection of science and society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Horgan is an award-winning science journalist and Director of the Center for Science Writings at Stevens Institute of Technology. His books include The End of Science\, a 1996 bestseller translated into 13 languages\, and Mind-Body Problems\, published online in 2018. A frequent contributor to Scientific American\, he has also written for The New York Times\, National Geographic and many other publications. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-scientist-a-conversation-with-john-horgan/
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SUMMARY:Portrayals of Love in Literature and Culture
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nPortrayals of Love in Literature and Culture with John Briggs€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPortrayals of Love in Literature and Culture \n\n\n\nwith John Briggs \n\n\n\nSaturday May 14\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n‘Love makes the world go round\,’ according to a song from the Broadway musical Carnival. Certainly the theme of love stands out as a central force motivating poetry\, fiction\, film\, and popular culture. \n\n\n\nThis session will explore selected familiar works of literature and popular culture in order to consider what clues these they contain to the implicit meanings of love that haunt us. What secret does the song suggest when it tells us: \n\n\n\nLove makes the world go ‘roundLove makes the world go ‘roundSomebody soon will love youIf no one loves you now \n\n\n\nIn the 1960s people were advised to make love not war. Still\, why is it that war makes for the best romantic love stories? Do our literary and popular portrayals of love provide insights into the tangled thickets of love where narcissism\, domination\, betrayal\, disillusion and conflict accompany expressions of infinite tenderness and care? \n\n\n\nTypes of love portrayed in this sessionRomantic and Erotic LoveLove of Friends\, FamilyLove and the Innocence of ChildhoodLove of God and Country\, Cosmos\, Knowledge and Other AbstractionsLove of Life\, Love of Earth \n\n\n\nThe feelings of love expressed in literature from the Native American context will provide a contrast to the feelings and ideas of love for those of us raised in anthropocentric (human-centered) cultures. \n\n\n\nFred Rogers\, host of the public television children’s show Mr. Rogers Neighborhood articulated the vital importance of love to children\, as you can see in these two YouTube clips: \n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtsLoA1nBDQ&list=TLPQMTQwMzIwMjJFAj-eQEew9A&index=3https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIG5rroOv5I \n\n\n\nScientists have shown that without love a child becomes psychologically damaged and may even die. But love and death are woven together\, so literature tells us. \n\n\n\nParticipants are urged to review several short YouTube clips from film versions of one of the most intense romantic love stories every written: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. \n\n\n\nAn overview montage of the story https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqwS3614J7Q \n\n\n\nDramatic moments \n\n\n\nCathy reflects on love https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNmWXt-8J1U \n\n\n\nCathy remembering her childhood castle with Heathcliff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gbCsNzr-L8 \n\n\n\nHeathcliff reacting to Cathy’s death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nB84L4aIZo \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofLC0be13Ks\n\n\n\n\nHeathcliff reaching for the ghost of Cathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABx-JZPSM10 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe (1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/images-of-love-in-literature-and-culture/
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SUMMARY:Power of Love
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nPower of Love with Satish Kumar€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPower of Love \n\n\n\nwith Satish Kumar \n\n\n\nSunday May 15\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nAs gravity holds the physical world together\, love holds the metaphysical world together.  Love permeates through all our activities and gives us a sense of joy\, fulfilment and contentment. Satish Kumar will speak about personal love\, love of people\, love of nature; love at all levels. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeace-pilgrim\, life-long activist and former monk\, Satish Kumar has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9\, Satish renounced the world and joined the wandering Jain monks. Inspired by Gandhi\, he decided at 18 that he could achieve more back in the world and soon undertook a peace-pilgrimage\, walking without money from India to America in the name of nuclear disarmament. Now in his 80s\, Satish has devoted his life to campaigning for ecological regeneration\, social justice and spiritual fulfilment. \n\n\n\nSatish founded Schumacher College as well as The Resurgence Trust\, an educational charity that seeks a just future for all. To join Satish in protecting people and planet\, become a member of Resurgence (with 20% off)\, entitling you to this charity’s change-making magazine\, Resurgence & Ecologist. \n\n\n\nSatish appears regularly on podcasts\, radio and television shows. He has been interviewed by Richard Dawkins\, Russell Brand and Annie Lennox\, appearing as a guest on Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs\, Thought for the Day and Midweek. Satish presented an episode of BBC2’s Natural World documentary series\, which was watched by 3.6 million people. An acclaimed international speaker and author\, Satish’s autobiography sold over 50\,000 copies\, inspiring change around the world.
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SUMMARY:Parenting as a Journey Towards Awakening
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nParenting as a Journey Towards Awakening with Ramona Rolle-Berg and Renée Rolle-Whatley€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nParenting as a Journey Towards Awakening \n\n\n\nExploring Self-growth through the Hidden Guidance of the Heart \n\n\n\nwith Ramona Rolle-Berg and Renée Rolle-Whatley \n\n\n\nSaturday May 21\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA well-known wisdom teaching from de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince mirrors what Vedic rishis\, Sufi and Christian mystics alike have imparted for millennia: ‘It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.’ \n\n\n\nHow then do we perceive this unseen field of potential-filled guidance? And how\, once aware of it\, can we engage with it in a conscious and coherent way? That’s what researcher-clinicians and integrative medicine practitioners Ramona Rolle-Berg\, Ph.D. and her sister\, Renée Rolle-Whatley\, Ph.D. will discuss using the results of their published and ongoing research about parental love. \n\n\n\nRolle-Berg and Rolle-Whatley suggest that experiencing parenting over time may eventually reveal the existence of a fundamental invisible awareness— a ubiquitous orthogenetic vibration acting upon humanity—guiding individuals towards heart-centered evolution. \n\n\n\nThe daily choices we make direct our lives. Choosing to actively parent is one such choice. As parents\, we become more devoted\, more loyal\, and more humble. We transformation. Through the vehicle of active parenting\, Rolle-Berg and Rolle-Whatley propose that egocentric perceptions give way. Over time\, integration of new parenting behaviors evolves perceptions and ultimately\, our heart’s capacity to love unconditionally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRamona Rolle-Berg\, Ph.D. describes herself as an intuitive\, an integrative medicine practitioner-clinician\, and scholar. Her clinical approach is based on healing through trust and compassion. With the aid of energetic and evidenced-based healing modalities\, she promotes client-realized self-awareness growth and a reclaiming of self. As a scholar\, she is focused on using CAQDAS (computer-assisted qualitative data analysis systems) to conceptually reveal deeper process-based relationships\, grounded in data\, exemplified by parental behaviors. Her original published research presented devotion as a process of change used by parents of Autistic children to both strengthen self-induced physical/psychological limitations and to reclaim life. She has a BS & MS in Engineering and PHD in Mind-Body medicine. With her sister\, her current research explores how loyalty\, devotion & humility interact to provide parents with life experiences that promote integration to higher levels of consciousness via non-judgmental compassion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRenée Rolle-Whatley\, Ph.D. takes a two-prong approach to health and wellness: as a practitioner-clinician\, she provides intuitive guidance and evidence-based energetic-and integrative-modality supports for clients seeking mind-body-spirit healing and health care around chronic and/or long-term physical and emotional health challenges.  As a scholar she is focused on revealing the theoretical concepts and behavioral processes between physical and non-physical vibratory experiences of love through study of the lived experiences of parents that actively parent.  Her original published research presented relational loyalty as an underlying process adopted by parents towards individuated growth in self-acceptance and self-awareness. She has a BS & MS in Engineering and PHD in Mind-Body medicine. With her sister\, her current work explores the intersection of self-awareness and self-acceptance as revealed thru the impact of non-judgmental compassion.
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SUMMARY:Love In A Time of Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording \n\n\nLove in a Time of Crisis with Mark Vernon€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove In A Time of Crisis \n\n\n\nwith Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSunday May 22\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nLove is often used in nebulous or ill-defined ways\, which means that its nuanced perceptions and mature forms can be hard to grasp. The need for a deeper awareness of love becomes particularly acute in times of crisis\, though times of crisis also offer moments to understand love move fully. In this talk\, Mark Vernon will explore the links between love and personal development\, different types of power\, its relationship with freedom and mind\, as well as erotic yearning\, suffering and loss\, and so also to the knowledge of the ways in which reality itself is shaped by love. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio\, as well as writing for the national and religious press\, and online publications. He also podcasts\, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake\, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy\, and other degrees in physics and in theology\, having studied at Durham\, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books\, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus\, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London\, UK. He is working on the notion of spiritual intelligence with the research group\, Perspectiva. Mark’s latest book is Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey\, Angelico Press\, 2021. For more information see www.markvernon.com.
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SUMMARY:Love Across Traditions
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nLove Across Traditions with Jane Clark and Mark Vernon€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLove Across Traditions \n\n\n\nwith Jane Clark and Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nSaturday May 28\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIt is often noted that the ancient Greeks had an advantage in possessing several words for love. Eros\, philia\, agape and others allowed them to be nuanced about love and navigate its differences. So is there benefit in considering how love has been understood in different wisdom traditions\, too? This conversation will explore how love has been understood in various faith contexts and across time\, looking at Christian\, Sufi\, Platonic and other insights. The aim will be to tease out similarities and differences so as to deepen and refresh the felt presence of love in our lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Clark is a teacher and independent researcher who lives in Oxford. She has been studying the Islamic mystical tradition for more than forty years and has given many lectures and courses both in the UK and internationally for organisations such as The Beshara Trust\, Oxford University Department for Continuous Education and Temenos Academy. She is a Senior Research Fellow of the Muhyiddin Ibn ʿArabi Society\, and also the editor of Beshara Magazine\, in which capacity she is able to pursue her particular interest in the relevance of the spiritual traditions to contemporary life. Jane originally studied science\, and first came across David Bohm’s ideas during her PhD studies when she was working on  magnetism. She went on to do a series of dialogues with him in London in the 1980s/90s\, and interviewed him for Beshara Magazine https://besharamagazine.org/metaphysics-spirituality/david-bohm-wholeness-timelessness-and-unfolding-meaning/. She also did a piece on Infinite Potential with Paul Howard https://besharamagazine.org/metaphysics-spirituality/david-bohm-infinite-potential-paul-howard/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMark Vernon is a writer and psychotherapist. He contributes to and presents programmes on the radio\, as well as writing for the national and religious press\, and online publications. He also podcasts\, in particular The Sheldrake-Vernon Dialogues with Rupert Sheldrake\, gives talks and leads workshops. He has a PhD in ancient Greek philosophy\, and other degrees in physics and in theology\, having studied at Durham\, Oxford and Warwick universities. He is the author of several books\, including A Secret History of Christianity: Jesus\, the Last Inkling and the Evolution of Consciousness which in part explores the work of Owen Barfield. He used to be an Anglican priest and lives in London\, UK. He is working on the notion of spiritual intelligence with the research group\, Perspectiva. Mark’s latest book is Dante’s Divine Comedy: A Guide for the Spiritual Journey\, Angelico Press\, 2021. For more information see www.markvernon.com.
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SUMMARY:Strangers on the Threshold: Love\, Wisdom\, and the Task of Philosophy
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nStrangers in the Threshold: Love\, Wisdom\, and the Task of Philosophy with Will Buckingham€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStrangers on the Threshold: Love\, Wisdom\, and the Task of Philosophy \n\n\n\nwith Will Buckingham \n\n\n\nSunday May 29\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWhat is philosophy? Why do we philosophise? And why\, in a time of crisis\, does philosophy matter?A familiar answer might be that philosophy is the love of wisdom\, that we philosophise out of a hunger for wisdom\, and that this deep need for wisdom is all the greater when we navigate through times of crisis. But for the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas\, this gets things back to front. Philosophy\, Levinas writes\, is not the love of wisdom. It is\, instead\, the wisdom of love in the service of love. Why do we philosophise? Why do we awaken to philosophical questions? Levinas’s answer is clear: we philosophise\, or awaken to love’s wisdom\, because we are called to do so by another – by the proximity of a stranger on the threshold\, by someone who is not us.In a time of crisis\, the temptation is often to withdraw\, to fall back on our own resources\, or to batten down the hatches. But in this talk\, writer and philosopher Will Buckingham will explore how Levinas sets out a more challenging\, and more fruitful\, path. Weaving together philosophy and storytelling\, he will argue that in a time of crisis\, the greatest philosophical demand may be this: to open up the door. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Love in a Time of Crisis Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWill Buckingham is a writer from the UK with a PhD in philosophy and an MA in anthropology. He has previously been associate professor of writing and creativity at De Montfort University\, Leicester\, and visiting associate professor in the School of Literature and Journalism at Sichuan University. He now works as a freelance writer\, and is on the visiting faculty at Parami University\, Myanmar. His most recent book is Hello\, Stranger: How We Find Connection in a Disconnected World (Granta 2021). https://www.willbuckingham.com
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SUMMARY:Re-Visioning Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Dates: June 5 – 12\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Harald Atmanspacher\, Gary Lachman\, Iain McGilchrist\, John Pickering\, William Seager\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini\, Angelita Valencia Borbon and Beverley Zabriskie. Guests Federico Faggin and Roberto Miller \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1700.00 euros (This fee includes 7-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals and sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event:\n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by recognizing the primacy of consciousness\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. How do we understand matter\, time and space\, individual consciousness\, birth and death\, free will? Are all things alive and conscious in some sense? \n\n\n\nJoin us at the Pari Center and let us explore together the tip of the iceberg of these challenges\, perhaps the closest that philosophical enquiry comes to our existential questions and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\nWe are delighted and honoured to announce that Federico Faggin\, inventor of the microprocessor and delver into the science of consciousness\, will be with us in Pari for this event. We will also be hosting Roberto Miller the filmmaker of the documentary The Four Lives of Federico Faggin.  Following a screening of the film\, there will be a panel discussion with Federico and other presenters and then an open discussion and Q&A with all participants of ‘Re-visioning Consciousness.’ \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1700.00 euros. The event fee includes a 7-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Sunday June 5 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Sunday June 12 after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConsciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.Schrödinger \n\n\n\nWhen we move beyond the ‘hard problem of consciousness’ by abandoning the tacit premises of materialism and physicalism\, a vast panorama of questions opens up. \n\n\n\nIs consciousness indeed\, as Schrödinger suggests above\, the primal experience\, the elementary primary fact all our philosophy and all our science are built upon? \n\n\n\nDoes consciousness arise in the world\, according to the physicalist view (e.g.\, when a sufficiently complex nervous system evolves)\, or does the world arise in consciousness? And\, if the latter is the case\, how does that happen? If the world is a dream arising in consciousness\, why does it arise? And why is the dream structured as it is\, why is it a cosmos\, not a chaos? \n\n\n\nMatter and spacetime appear to have their own order\, their own laws that govern our experience. Are those laws intrinsic to consciousness? Are they in turn a creation of consciousness? \n\n\n\nAnother possible approach is that of pantheism. In this perspective the world exists and consciousness exists\, they are both primary. But the world is infused with consciousness\, everything is conscious to some degree\, from the most elementary (say\, an elementary particle) to the cosmic scale of the universe itself. \n\n\n\nIf that is so\, why are we not aware of it? The reason might be that we recognize consciousness only when it is close enough to our own level. I am aware of the consciousness of my dogs and cats\, but the consciousness of an atom and that of a solar system both elude me\, they are too different. \n\n\n\nOr you might say matter and consciousness are just two sides of one coin. Dual aspect monism suggests that mind and matter are the dual manifestation of one substance\, which is perceived from the inside (in the first person) as consciousness\, from the outside (in the third person) as things. \n\n\n\nIn Re-Visioning Consciousness\, we will explore together the tip of the iceberg of these profound questions\, perhaps the closest philosophical enquiry comes to our existential and emotional involvement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nDoes “Consciousness” Exist? with Harald Atmanspacher \n\n\n\nAwakening Conciencia and The Path With Heart with Angelita Valencia Borbon \n\n\n\nDreaming Ahead of Time with Gary Lachman \n\n\n\nValue and Purpose with Dr. Iain McGilchrist \n\n\n\nWhy Re-vision Consciousness? with John Pickering \n\n\n\nThe Problem of Consciousness in Philosophy\, Or What’s All the Fuss About? 
with William Seager \n\n\n\nInside Out and Outside In with Beverley Zabriskie \n\n\n\nThe Four Lives of Federico Faggin – Screening of the Film followed by Roundtable with the filmmaker Roberto Miller\, Federico Faggin and Presenters from this event \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:Psyche and Time
DESCRIPTION:Organizers: The Pari Center and ISAPZURICH \n\n\n\nDates: June 14 – 20\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Frédérique Dambreville\, Deborah Egger\, Andrew Fellows\, Christopher Hauke\, Mathew Mather\, Shantena Sabbadini and Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1400.00 euros (This fee includes 6-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals\, sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n[W]e cannot apply our notion of time to the unconscious. Our consciousness can conceive of things only in temporal succession\, our time is\, therefore\, essentially linked to the chronological sequence. In the unconscious this is different\, because there everything lies together\, so to speak.C.G. Jung \n\n\n\nTime is integral to many of C.G. Jung’s remarkable insights into the nature and dynamics of the psyche\, from individual development to the unus mundus—the invisible and timeless foundation of reality. \n\n\n\nJoin ISAPZURICH and the Pari Center for an in-depth exploration of the ubiquitous yet mysterious phenomena of Psyche and Time from the perspectives of science\, philosophy\, symbolism\, mythology\, therapeutic practice\, and culture. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nA defining characteristic of Carl Jung’s extraordinary life’s work is his engagement across all scales\, from the cosmic and metaphysical to the personal and psychological. Another is his breadth of influences\, from Hermetic to quantum worldviews. This is the context for our exploration of two ubiquitous phenomena that\, like fish in water\, we take for granted\, but which on closer examination are profoundly puzzling: psyche and time. Our perspectives will be scientific\, philosophical\, symbolic and mythological\, clinical and cultural as we zoom in from the universe to the practice room\, and end with a trip to the cinema! \n\n\n\nIn the first two days we will explore the fundamental nature of time with theoretical physicist Shantena Sabbadini\, and of psyche with applied physicist and Jungian Analyst Andrew Fellows. The next day we will enter the world of astrology—a lifelong interest of Jung’s that connects psyche and cosmos through time—with Jungian Analyst and professional astrologer Frédérique Dambreville. We will also explore synchronicity and the turning of the age through the symbolism of the scarab with Jungian scholar and educator Mathew Mather. On the fourth day\, Jungian Analyst Deborah Egger will delve into the vital role of time in the psychotherapeutic process\, and Mathew will follow up his previous presentation with an experiential workshop. On the last whole day\, Jungian Analysts Yuriko Sato and Christopher Hauke will\, respectively\, present an Eastern view of psyche and time\, and show how predominantly Western views have been depicted\, and sometimes deconstructed\, in film. The final morning will feature a dialogue among all the presenters responding to further questions and those aspects of the event which have generated most interest. \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1400.00 euros. The event fee includes a 6-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Tuesday June 14 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday June 20 after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nThe Nature of Time with Shantena Sabbadini \n\n\n\nThe Nature of Psyche with Andrew Fellows \n\n\n\nThe Infinity of the Cosmos and the Depth of Psyche with Frédérique Dambreville \n\n\n\nA Green Gold Scarab: Symbol for the Turning of an Age? with Mathew Mather \n\n\n\nTime and Timing in Therapy with Deborah Egger \n\n\n\nAnima Mundi: Synchronicity and the Soul of the World with Mathew Mather \n\n\n\nLived Time in Japan with Yuriko Sato \n\n\n\nScreen Time: Movies\, Mind and the Experience of Time with Christopher Hauke \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor more information about ISAPZURICH see https://www.isapzurich.com \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Dr. Jimena Canales
DESCRIPTION:A Conversation between Dr. Jimena Canales and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday June 159:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nScience is what scientists make of it in the context of their times. Therefore\, to better understand its current state and its likely future\, we must study its history. However\, history is often written by the “winners”\, and we swim in it like a fish oblivious to the kinds of waters that nourish (but also constrain) our understanding of the world. In this installment of The Future Scientist series\, we will concentrate on the revolutions of physics at the dawn of the 20th century. The transformations of the very idea of science that ensued from certain ways of interpreting those advances percolated to biology and neuroscience all the way to the present moment. Drawing from major concrete historical events\, we will discuss the very concept of measurement\, the troubled relationship between the sciences and the humanities\, and the crucial question of who has the authority to make claims about reality\, and why. Although historians repeatedly learn that we hardly learn from history\, a careful looking back can certainly offer a glimpse as to how to make the future science more scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jimena Canales is an award-winning author and scholar focusing on the history of science in the modern world. She is currently a faculty member at the Graduate College at the University of Illinois-Urbana\, Champaign. She was previously the Thomas M. Siebel Professor in the History of Science at the University of Illinois and an Associate Professor at Harvard University. Canales is the author of A Tenth of a Second: A History\, The Physicist and The Philosopher: Einstein\, Bergson\, and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time\, Bedeviled: A Shadow History of Demons in Science\, and Simply Einstein. Her books have been voted Top 10 Books about Time (The Guardian)\, Best Science Books for 2015 (Science Friday\, NPR\, Public Radio International and Brainpickings)\, Top Reads for 2015 (The Independent)\, and Books of the Year for 2016 (The Tablet). Her scholarly work on the history of science has been published in Isis\, Science in Context\, History of Science\, the British Journal for the History of Science\, and the MLN\, among others. Her work on visual\, film and media studies has appeared in Architectural History\, Journal of Visual Culture\, and Thresholds. Canales writes frequently for general audiences publishing in The New Yorker\, The Atlantic\, Artforum\, Aperture\, Nautilus and WIRED among others. She has presented her work on science and art at the Pompidou Museum\, SFMOMA\, the 11th Shanghai Biennale\, and the Serpentine Gallery in London. She was a senior fellow at the IKKM (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2022
DESCRIPTION:Part 1: Imagination\, Creativity\, Dialogue\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: David Bohm and Philosophy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm has been described as one of the most significant and original thinkers of the twentieth century whose interests and influence extend well beyond the field of physics to include philosophy\, psychology\, language\, religion\, art\, creativity\, thought\, and education. Underlying his innovative approach to these many different issues was the fundamental idea that beyond the visible\, tangible world there lies a deeper\, implicate order of undivided wholeness. \n\n\n\nDuring July and August the Pari Center is offering a unique opportunity to hear and dialogue with those involved in the many aspects of David Bohm’s work and to discuss the implications of his ideas for the future. All sessions include audience participation in the form of Q&A and discussion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 1: Imagination\, Creativity\, Dialogue\n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nJuly 9 – 10\, 16 – 17\, 23 – 24\, 2022 \n\n\n\n9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n6 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn this second year of our Beyond Bohm series\, we will emphasize three themes–one for each of three weekends in July. \n\n\n\nThe first weekend will explore imagination. How might we enter it? How might we inhabit it? On July 9 we will inquire into how David Bohm worked with imagination\, while improvising upon and extending Bohm’s approach. On July 10 we will explore Tim Ingold’s radical anthropology and his new book\, Imagining for Real\, while touching upon some of the linkages with Bohm’s “participatory consciousness.” We are delighted that Prof. Ingold will join us for this session. \n\n\n\nOur second weekend will take up questions of creativity and the artistic process. On July 16 and 17 we will engage with the work of four different artists\, and the way this work complements and illuminates the work of David Bohm. Themes will include wholeness and fragmentation\, the artistic movement from implicate to explicate\, the nature of perception\, and the relation of consciousness to the “art object.” \n\n\n\nOur final weekend has the theme of dialogue. On July 23 our roundtable will open up the many questions and concerns regarding the shift from ‘in person” dialogue to on-line dialogue during the time of Covid-19. We will also take into consideration some of the more general questions about the human-digital-technological interface. Finally\, on July 24 we will have our second annual Indigenous Dialogue\, facilitated by Leroy Little Bear. This year’s theme is “Walk in Beauty\,” and will consider various approaches to ecology\, the environment\, and the Anthropocene”–the time of the new human. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday July 9Imagining Imaginationwith Richard Burg\, Beth Macy and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday July 10Imagining for Realwith Tim Ingold\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 16 and Sunday July 17Processes of Creation\, Part One and Twowith Steven Breaux\, Aja Bulla-Richards\, Sky Hoorne and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 23Dialogue in the Age of Zoomwith Julie Arts\, Richard Burg\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Lee Nichol and David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday July 24Indigenous Dialogue: Walk in Beautywith Leroy Little Bear\, Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Amethyst First Rider\, Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Melissa Nelson\, John Briggs\, Harvey Locke and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: David Bohm and Philosophy\n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley\, Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila\, Petteri Limnell\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, William Seager and Marij van StrienCurated by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nPari Center Online Series \n\n\n\nAugust 6 – 7\, 20 – 21\, 27 – 28\, 2022 \n\n\n\n9:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n6 Two-hour sessions\, Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm was concerned with providing a description of reality – at the quantum level\, and more generally\, a unified description of matter\, life\, and consciousness\, all adding up to a general concept of reality or a metaphysical theory. This concern with reality did not mean that he ignored the role of the mind (language\, perception\, etc.) in his attempts to describe reality. In other words\, he did not ignore epistemological issues or questions that concern the nature of our knowledge and the problems of justifying it. On the contrary\, his broad philosophical work includes extensive studies of various epistemic issues: physics and perception\, the notions of truth and understanding\, a view of science as “perception-communication”\, experimentation with the structure of language\, study of knowledge understood as process\, and discussions of topics such as communication\, creativity\, art\, religion and so on. This series discusses various aspects of Bohm’s philosophical thought. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 6Bohm and Philosophy: An Introductionwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 7Creativity and the Generative Orderwith Petteri Limnell interviewed by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 20The Role of Philosophy in Bohm and Hiley’s Research in Physicswith Basil Hiley interviewed by Petteri Limnell \n\n\n\nSunday August 21Consciousness\, Bohm and the Quest for Intelligibilitywith William Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 27Why Bohm was Never a Deterministwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nSunday August 28Aristotelian Metaphysical and Epistemological Reflections in David Bohmwith Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila
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SUMMARY:Imagining Imagination
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/oESEtsX_iC8?si=viacKy-JvlKZq-T7\n\n\n\n\n\nImagining Imagination \n\n\n\nwith Richard Burg\, Beth Macy and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday July 9\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn 1978\, as David Bohm was bringing forth his vision of the implicate order\, he pointed out that\, rather than being a new model\, “I regard the implicate order as a new form of imagination.” There are many potential lines of inquiry bound up in this statement. Among those that we will take up are: What did Bohm mean by “a new form of imagination”? How might this differ from a model? We tend to think that descriptions and models are either literal or metaphorical – but are there aspects of imagination that are neither of these? Could a renewed and revitalized imagination itself the key to this inquiry? \n\n\n\nTo illustrate how these questions regarding imagination can have practical applications\, the second portion of this session will consider a two-year experiment into Bohm’s notion of “holoflux.” At the core of this process is an approach to embodiment called rheosoma\, the flowing body – itself an experiment in “Bohmian” imagination. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Burg – In 2003 I retired from consulting\, my fourth career (IT\, potter\, Continuing Medical Education research). Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone\, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals. \n\n\n\nIn 1990 a friend sent me a transcript of a talk given by David Bohm at MIT. In my organization development practice – focused on changing corporate cultures – group work was a built-in aspect of the process. Bohm’s dialogue experiment was thus enticing\, and I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area\, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group\, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour\, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently\, like many\, in online dialogues\, before and during the covid pandemic. \n\n\n\nEarly on in my dialogue work\, I received permission to transcribe the little pamphlet\, Dialogue: A Proposal (D. Bohm\, D. Factor\, and P. Garrett) and post it online via colleagues at MIT. It is still available\, in multiple “versions\,” some with several addenda/commentaries. \n\n\n\nRichard is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nBeth is a contributor the the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
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SUMMARY:Imagining for Real
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/cwtFTrIY2rc?si=SWt0zE9E5upeg3IY\n\n\n\n\n\nImagining for Real \n\n\n\nwith Tim Ingold\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol\, Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSunday July 10\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nWhat does imagination do for our perception of the world? Why should reality be broken off from our imagining of it? It was not always thus\, and in his latest book\, Imagining for Real\, Tim Ingold sets out to heal the break between reality and imagination that is at the heart of modern thought and science. \n\n\n\nIngold’s work in anthropology is as radical in its field as that of David Bohm in physics and Christopher Alexander in architecture\, and has been brought to fruition through a five-year research project\, “Knowing from the Inside.” As Ingold describes it\, he was determined “to develop a way of study\, or a method\, that would join with the people and things with whom and which we share a world\, allowing knowledge to grow from our correspondences with them.” \n\n\n\nIn this session we will have an extended conversation with Prof. Ingold\, exploring the multiple layers of his extensive body of work – and the numerous correspondences this work has with David Bohm’s inquiries into participatory consciousness. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Ingold\, FBA\, FRSE\, is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland\, and has written on environment\, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North\, on animals in human society\, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology\, archaeology\, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000)\, Lines (2007)\, Being Alive (2011)\, Making (2013)\, The Life of Lines (2015)\, Anthropology and/as Education (2018)\, Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018)\, Correspondences (2020) and Imagining For Real (2022). \n\n\n\nhttps://www.abdn.ac.uk/socsci/people/profiles/tim.ingold \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasses live art\, drawing\, sculpture\, poetry\, philosophy and ‘dialogue’ (as set out by David Bohm): Art is not viewed straightforwardly as a tool of communication or form of personal expression\, but more as a complex kingdom that is continually attempting to establish itself through human thought and action. \n\n\n\nHester’s work has been shown internationally including at former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago\, LIVE Biennale Vancouver\, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland\, Tate Britain\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Halle G Vienna and\, most recently\, Nirox Sculpture Park\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nHester is a contributor the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/hester-reeve\n\n\n\n\nhttp://www.hesterreeve.com/
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Dr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMWhew3KOM4\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Dr. Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday July 139:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nOur social rituals in academia alternate between “coffee breaks” (to get us going) & “beer hours” (to get us loose). The former pumps our analytical mind when it is time to work\, the latter inhibits it when it is time to mingle. And yet\, our minds remain unchanged. However\, psychedelic substances –whose etymology means mind-manifesting– are a well-known but still rather-unexplored catalyzer of the human potential. A brief history of notorious psychedelic explorers\, such as Humphry Davy or William James\, attests their stamp on human thought. After all\, it may not be a coincidence that there are so many aged pioneers\, whose minds were expanded in the 60s by their use before their stigmatization. Today\, the psychedelic world is undergoing a revival\, if not a revolution. We will discuss psychedelics at the intersection of science and philosophy\, and also address the historical route that led to their prohibition (together with the decline of religious traditions in the West\, the rise of the New Age disconnected from analytical thought\, and the dominance of British idealism and current physicalism). Sacred plants are not mere recreational drugs\, but mind-expanders towards other “modes of sentience”; a candidate remedy for the malaises of our civilization. The so-called ‘altered’ states of consciousness provide a fertile ground of inquiry whereby not only the mind can be recast as a different “object” of study but also afford a transformation of the very mind of the subject that studies it. The scientist and the mystic can meet within the same body. The future scientist will probably be a shaman. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes is philosopher of mind and metaphysics who specialises in the thought of Spinoza\, Nietzsche\, and Whitehead\, and in fields pertaining to altered and panpsychological states of consciousness. He is a research fellow and associate lecturer at the University of Exeter where he has co-founded the Philosophy of Psychedelics Exeter Research Group\, the ambit of which includes taught modules\, conferences\, workshops\, and publications. Peter is the author of Noumenautics\, Modes of Sentience\, editor of Bloomsbury’s Philosophy and Psychedelics volume\, the TEDx Talker on ‘psychedelics and consciousness’\, and he is inspiration to the inhuman philosopher Marvel Superhero\, Karnak. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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SUMMARY:Processes of Creation
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/XDP6Quiqo2Y?si=pPufF3aUROIdPeuf\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/QN3nvuz2cWs?si=OCzTvHRoYY9gKfgm\n\n\n\n\n\nProcesses of Creation \n\n\n\nwith Steven Breaux\, Aja Bulla-Richards\, Sky Hoorne and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSaturday July 16 and Sunday July 17\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nTwo 2-hour sessions \n\n\n\nThese sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nMost artists\, most artisans – really\, anyone who creates – go through some process of envisioning…formulating…gestating…imagining. There are\, as well\, processes of intending\, expressing\, embodying\, disclosing. And then further\, manifesting\, revealing\, exhibiting. Some of these processes may operate prior to the threshold of conscious awareness. Some of them may move in a grey area. Some may be\, or may become\, overtly intentional. These various processes – and many others not named – may loop back on one another\, interpenetrate one another\, fuel or negate one another. For many who create\, there is an element of mystery\, of uncertainty\, a dance of the unexpected and unforeseen. \n\n\n\nWith four artists over two days\, we will explore the dynamic nature of these processes\, which have multiple resonances with David Bohm’s implicate and explicate orders\, and with his notions of wholeness and fragmentation. Each artist will present and discuss selections of their work. They will then further discuss their work in conversation with the three other artists in the program\, before opening their segment to audience comment and participation.  \n\n\n\nJuly 16    Steven Breaux\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAs a painter I have always believed that the paint in a brushstroke is encoded with the mental states of the artist during the process of its making\, and that in the analysis of the work of art by a “viewer” these states could be accessed. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI propose that during the creative art-object process a “field” or subtle structure is formed and sustained by the artist’s qualitative states and consciousness – and that this field exists as a hidden aspect of the material art-object. Revealing distinguishing features between a traditional painting and other mediums including digital (algorithmic) work\, I propose that this field or subtle structure is dynamic\, viable and accessible to the artist and the viewer. \n\n\n\nHighlighting my artistic process\, exploration and discovery I will focus on how these are influenced by aspects of David Bohm’s ontology. \n\n\n\nJuly 16   Aja Bulla-Richards\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBy giving form to unseen and latent qualities and processes we open up the possibility of new ways of relating to the world around us and within us. As a designer\, making latent natural systems and cycles visible is part of my creative process\, one that involves collaborating with these movements in and on the earth.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis way of working is a a response to the urgent environmental crisis we are facing – a crisis that necessitates a shift out of a mechanical worldview that sees nature as resource\, and towards an exploration of our participatory relationship with a living world. In this presentation I will outline and illustrate how this process of bringing forth the “implicate” aspects of natural systems works in practice\, and how all of us can shift our vision to more fully see “into” the natural world. \n\n\n\nJuly 17     Sky Hoorne\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA lens-based\, photographic way of perceiving the world has become deeply embedded in\, and come to dominate\, fundamental aspects of human consciousness. This mode of perception more often than not leads to fragmentation and subtle alienation\, which then becomes reflexive in our relationship with the world. Through different mediums I try to counterbalance this photographic and object-oriented “error” by turning to our imaginative potential\, which can reveal the world to us in new ways.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNature – both human-impacted and the wild remnants – is not to be “transcended” and sublimated to mental objects\, but rather to be “inscended” – to be stepped into and fully experienced in all of its richness\, beauty\, ugliness\, and power. In this presentation I will illustrate some of these limits on our perception\, and how these limits might be opened. The body forms an integral part of this process: the subject matter is not only perceived visually\, but also psychologically\, emotionally\, and by imagining “into” the processes observed. \n\n\n\nJuly 17    Hester Reeve\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThrough engaging with David Bohm’s understanding of creativity\, I have had to question whether I really am creative or not – such questioning opens up a complicated but rich terrain and Bohm’s perspective has confirmed my intuition that the task is as much philosophical as artistic. There is an important line to wonder and wander along in creative unfurling\, exercising a balance between being a creative creature in my own life with some sort of experimental outward stretch to enable larger\, often incomprehensible processes to fulfil some sort of potential of existence.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nI love to think about such things as much as I love the smell of turps in an art studio\, but my real excitement is how such mental gymnastics ‘knead’ out the cultural habits and personal assumptions from my brain-body\, clearing the way for attunement to fresh possibilities – in how I behave\, in the forms I make\, or how I might work with others. For this presentation\, I will lead with examples from my art practice that engage these various philosophical and artistic interests. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2022-2/Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Artists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteve Breaux\, BFA\, MFA\, Florida State University\, is retired (2020) Professor of Visual Arts at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette where he taught Art and the Computer\, Conceptual and Formal Development\, Advanced Drawing\, and 2d. Design. For 25 years he has worked both as a solo artist and in collaboration with his wife and partner\, Kathy Reed\, in a variety of media including process art\, printmaking\, painting on silk\, computer animation/video\, photography\, and painting often in combination. He has researched the nature of the art process as it relates to differences between painting and digital (algorithmic) artwork for over 25 years. In 2011\, his research led to the ideas and concepts in quantum physics\, David Bohm in particular\, which helped to shift his private research into a more public arena that included lectures and presentations. \n\n\n\nIn 2015 Steve was invited to present the research behind his abstract\, Waking Space: The Emerging Art Object\, Quantum Theory\, and Algorithmic Art at the Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference in Helsinki\, Finland. The abstract can be found here: \n\n\n\n\nhttps://stevebreaux-kathyreed.com/pdfs.html\n\n\n\n\nSteve’s work has been accepted regionally\, nationally and internationally for inclusion in galleries\, museums\, catalogues and exhibitions. \n\n\n\nhttps://stevebreaux-kathyreed.com/section/188730.htmlhttps://stevebreaux-kathyreed.com/section/258261-COLLABORATIVE-WORK.html \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAja Bulla-Richards is an architectural and landscape architectural designer\, public artist\, and educator. She works at the intersection of social\, ecological\, and conceptual systems and everyday experience. As the Creative Director at Watershed Progressive\, Aja is responsible for managing and designing resilient landscape projects and educational programs throughout California. As a Lecturer in the landscape architecture and urbanism graduate program at University of Southern California\, she leads design studios that address adapting our constructed world to shifting natural and sociocultural forces. Aja’s ongoing research questions our dominant cultural narratives\, and explores multiple forms of knowledge formation and co-creation. Her projects explore how we can re-imagine and transform monofunctional systems into resilient socio-ecological cycles that engage and re-enchant everyday experience\, promote alternative cultural practices\, and uncover latent ecological processes. \n\n\n\nAja is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\nhttp://www.watershedprogressive.com/M.S. Architecture\, Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury UniversityM.L.A.\, University of Virginia\, School of DesignM.Arch\, University of Virginia\, School of DesignB.A.\, Architecture\, University of California at Berkeley \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSky Hoorne holds a MS in Computer Science from Vrije Universiteit Brussel and attended LUCA School of Arts Ghent. She is a graphic artist\, creator of comic strips\, and a dedicated scholar of the work of David Bohm. Currently she is focused on ceramic sculptures\, drawings\, paintings\, and on making complex issues digestible to a broader\, non-academic public. \n\n\n\nRooted in her life philosophy of ‘active context’/’contexting’\, Sky attempts to make ‘inscendental’ works of art\, in which the viewer is invited to step into the subject by appealing to their primal imagination and subtle participation. This approach involves free play with clichés\, perspectives\, and polarities. Despite her background in IT\, her main interests include psychology\, eastern philosophy\, science of mind\, no-nonsense metaphysics and kiko/qi gong. \n\n\n\nSky is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\nhttps://www.antihype.be/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHester Reeve is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University UK. Her practice encompasses live art\, drawing\, sculpture\, poetry\, philosophy and ‘dialogue’ (as set out by David Bohm): Art is not viewed straightforwardly as a tool of communication or form of personal expression\, but more as a complex kingdom that is continually attempting to establish itself through human thought and action. \n\n\n\nHester’s work has been shown internationally\, including at former Randolph Street Gallery Chicago\, LIVE Biennale Vancouver\, BONE Performance Festival Switzerland\, Tate Britain\, Yorkshire Sculpture Park\, Halle G Vienna and\, most recently\, Nirox Sculpture Park\, South Africa. \n\n\n\nHester is a contributor the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing 2022) \n\n\n\nhttps://hester-reeve.squarespace.com/https://www.shu.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-profiles/hester-reeve
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SUMMARY:Dialogue in the Age of Zoom
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/bLlTWvifB-0?si=Zn3plc9IpimUy9Ik\n\n\n\n\n\nDialogue in the Age of Zoom \n\n\n\nwith Julie Arts\, Richard Burg\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Lee Nichol and David Schrum \n\n\n\nSaturday July 23\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIt is impossible to overstate the effects of Covid-19 on the manner in which human beings interact. High on the list of these effects is a massive shift to online interaction for work\, social engagement\, and personal interaction. Dialogue in its many forms – Bohmian or otherwise – has also been significantly impacted by this online shift. In this session we will draw on the experience of seven people who have deep roots in various aspects of dialogue\, both before and during the Covid pandemic. At the forefront of our inquiry will be the many variances that occur between in-the-flesh interaction on one hand\, and interaction through the medium of streaming video on the other. What experiences are gained through the digital milieu? What experiences are lost? Is the future of dialogue – and conversation more generally – being re-shaped in accord with technology? As Covid-19 becomes endemic\, will groups still gather face-to-face? What are the implications of these many changes? \n\n\n\nOur roundtable will also take up more general questions regarding the cultural impact of social media and the human-digital interface. In what ways does the milieu of these technologies shape our awareness? What new skills of critical thinking can guide us as the digital world becomes omnipresent? At multiple junctures\, we will invite audience members to engage with us on all of these questions. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJulie Arts is currently on a sabbatical from being a senior faculty member and consultant with the Presencing Institute (PI)\, an organisation founded in 2006 by Otto Scharmer and colleagues\, to support action research and leadership development for systems change and societal transformation.Julie is an economist by training and has worked as a senior consultant\, designing and hosting multi-stakeholder transition processes and ecosystem leadership programs such as the UN SDG Leadership Lab and many in-house leadership programs for companies and NGOs. Julie is also a board member of Meg Wheatley’s Berkana Institute. She lives in Mechelen\, Belgium and in Pari\, Italy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichard Burg – In 2003 I retired from consulting\, my fourth career (IT\, potter\, Continuing Medical Education research). Simple Idea worked with corporate leaders to integrate human values and productivity in a constantly changing environment – engaging with teams and individuals to build relationships within the organization that nurture the humanity in everyone\, even as they work together to achieve audacious goals. \n\n\n\nIn 1990 a friend sent me a transcript of a talk given by David Bohm at MIT. In my organization development practice – focused on changing corporate cultures – group work was a built-in aspect of the process. Bohm’s dialogue experiment was thus enticing\, and I discovered a Bohmian dialogue group in the San Francisco Bay Area\, which I attended weekly for the next eight years. Stemming from that group\, Lee Nichol and I designed a nine-hour\, multi-day introduction to Bohm’s experiment at the first National Conference on Dialogue and Deliberation in Washington DC. I have since engaged in dialogue in many different contexts – most recently\, like many\, in online dialogues\, before and during the covid pandemic. \n\n\n\nEarly on in my dialogue work\, I received permission to transcribe the little pamphlet\, Dialogue: A Proposal (D. Bohm\, D. Factor\, and P. Garrett) and post it online via colleagues at MIT. It is still available\, in multiple “versions\,” some with several addenda/commentaries. \n\n\n\nRichard is a contributor to the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna and her husband\, Don Factor\, were longtime friends and supporters of David Bohm and the process of dialogue he envisioned. Don had first met Bohm in the 1970s in London\, and the two continued their friendship from that time on. It was their early acquaintance that led to inviting Bohm to be interviewed by Don at the Human Unity Conference – a large gathering of people from many different spiritual traditions – held at Warwick University\, in March of 1983. Following the enthusiastic response to this interview\, Bohm was invited to present more of his thinking at a weekend conference held in Mickleton\, England. It was during the ensuing weekend that what is considered to have been the very first Bohmian dialogue occurred. The transcript of the weekend has been preserved by Don Factor in the book\, Unfolding Meaning. \n\n\n\nFollowing that weekend\, Anna and Don began offering their home for dialogues among those who had been so inspired by the initial dialogue idea\, and along with Peter and Jenny Garrett and David and Saral Bohm\, they organized public dialogues at many locations across western Europe\, Scandinavia\, and Israel during the late 1980s. Stemming from these early dialogues is the well-known publication by Bohm\, Don Factor and Peter Garrett\, “Dialogue\, A Proposal” which still is considered a cornerstone description of Bohm’s intention for dialogue. \n\n\n\nLooking back\, Anna remembers David Bohm:  “He was a dear man. He really was so very kind and had a lot of humanity. I found him – and still find him – an inspiration…a lovely\, lovely man.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally Jeffery was introduced to the teachings of J. Krishnamurti while a young undergraduate in Sociology. Through involvement with his international school in England\, she met and was deeply impressed by David Bohm (a founding trustee of the school) and\, later\, his proposals for dialogue. Over three decades\, she has taken part in dialogue in many settings\, including prisons and her local (Lancaster) dialogue group. Involvement in two online dialogue groups began in 2018/19\, but since the pandemic and through the Lancaster group website\, others have been in contact\, expressing interest and wanting to start new ​online groups to explore David Bohm’s thinking in practice.  During this same period\, Sally was employed as a body work therapist\, including over 20 years working with people who’d had a cancer diagnosis\, along with their families. A leaning to such work might suggest she would take less readily to online dialogue\, missing the physical presence of the other participants. After initial hesitation\, this has proved not to be the case. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Macy\, PhD\, organizational consultant\, Bohmian dialogue practitioner \n\n\n\nThe common thread weaving through Beth’s career has been change\, having been a manager\, leader\, consultant or participant in organizations experiencing difficult issues:  organizations from small to large\, private to public\, non-profit to profit\, health care to oil and gas\, local to global. David Bohm’s dialogue has been core to her research\, writing\, consulting and teaching for nearly three decades. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s methodology of dialogue. \n\n\n\nBeth is a contributor the the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movement/Vision inspired by David Bohm (Pari Publishing). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory at Queen’s University\, following which he spent two post-doctoral years with David Bohm at Birkbeck College. Here\, he entered Bohm’s world of creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics and his enquiry into consciousness and what may lie beyond. \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum continues in these explorations\, in physics developing a new approach to relativistic quantum theory and\, through the dialogue process\, going into what it is to bring to light that which lies enfolded within our individual and collective consciousness.
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SUMMARY:Indigenous Dialogue: Walk in Beauty
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/PNhCLFrgXK8?si=pcMbssGQtAznkEUA\n\n\n\n\n\nIndigenous Dialogue: Walk in Beauty \n\n\n\nwith Leroy Little Bear\, Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Amethyst First Rider\, Robin Wall Kimmerer\, Melissa Nelson\, John Briggs\, Harvey Locke and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nFacilitated by Leroy Little Bear \n\n\n\nSunday July 24\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn Memory of Rose Imai \n\n\n\nThe concept of “ecological niche” has gained much traction since the early 20th century\, with many hundreds of plant and animal species now thoroughly assessed\, analyzed\, and categorized under this rubric. But what is the ecological niche of homo sapiens – of us\, human beings? We know that\, like any other species\, humans exist in a very narrow band of specific conditions within which we can live and flourish. With the onset of the Anthropocene – the “new human” era – those specific conditions have increasingly come under assault\, threatening the well-being not only of homo sapiens\, but of all life\, of the entire planet. \n\n\n\nIn this dialogue we will question whether utilitarian conservation – an approach that subtly or overtly emphasizes the benefit of conservation for humans – is sufficient to address the many implications of life in the Anthropocene. We will consider the prospect of relational conservation\, which is innate to indigenous worldviews. In relational conservation\, all of existence is considered animate\, and the intricate web of connections between “all my relations” is not a metaphor – it is the fundamental reality that must be steadily held in view. \n\n\n\nWhile exploring the implications of these different approaches to conservation\, our dialogue will also examine the tacit infrastructures of the currently dominant “western paradigm.” Through such examination\, we may come to a clearer understanding of wholeness and fragmentation\, and perhaps see a way forward to fundamental shifts in our underlying metaphysics. We may begin to see glimmerings of what our Navajo brothers and sisters mean when they say\, “May you walk in beauty.” \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Panel\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear\, PhD. Blackfoot Native—Professor Emeritus University of Lethbridge\, Canada. \n\n\n\nLeroy Little Bear was born and raised on the Blood Indian Reserve (Kainai First Nation)\, approximately 70 km west of Lethbridge\, Alberta. One of the first Native students to complete a program of study at the University of Lethbridge\, Little Bear graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1971. He continued his education at the College of Law\, University of Utah\, in Salt Lake City\, completing a Juris Doctor Degree in 1975. \n\n\n\nFollowing his graduation\, Little Bear returned to his alma mater as a founding member of Canada’s first Native American Studies Department. He remained at the University of Lethbridge as a researcher\, faculty member and department chair until his official retirement in 1997. \n\n\n\nIn recent years Little Bear has continued his influential work as an advocate for First Nations education. From January 1998 to June 1999 he served as Director of the Harvard University Native American Program. Upon his return to Canada\, he was instrumental in the creation of a Bachelor of Management in First Nations Governance at the University of Lethbridge—the only program of its kind in the country. \n\n\n\nIn the spring of 2003\, Little Bear was awarded the prestigious National Aboriginal Achievement Award for Education\, the highest honour bestowed by Canada’s First Nations community. Little Bear is the recipient of honorary doctorates from the University of Lethbridge and the University of Northern British Columbia. Along with his wife\, Amethyst First Rider\, Little Bear brought about the historic Buffalo Treaty between First Nations on both sides of the USA-Canada border in 2014. Little Bear was inducted into the Alberta Order Excellence and the Order of Canada in 2016 and 2019 respectively. \n\n\n\nAfter a lifetime of educational service\, Little Bear remains a dedicated and dynamic teacher and mentor to students and faculty at the University of Lethbridge. He continues to pursue new research interests including North American Indian science and Western physics\, and the exploration of Blackfoot knowledge through songs\, stories and landscape. \n\n\n\nWhile his educational achievements are remarkable\, Little Bear’s contribution to the First Nations community extends well beyond the classroom. He has served as a consultant to local and national organizations including the Blood Tribe\, Indian Association of Alberta and the Assembly of First Nations of Canada. His notable reputation has also earned him a place on numerous government commissions and boards including the Task Force on the Criminal Justice and Its Impact on the Indian and Metis Peoples of Alberta (1990-91). Little Bear’s legal advice is widely sought on such significant issues as land claims\, treaties\, and hunting and fishing rights. \n\n\n\nDr Little Bear is the co-author of several books on self-government and Aboriginal rights\, including Pathways to Self Determination\, Quest For Justice\, and Governments in Conflict. His credits also include a variety of influential articles such as\, ‘A concept of Native Title\,’ which was cited in a Canadian Supreme Court decision. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeannette Armstrong\, Syilx Okanagan\, is Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Okanagan Philosophy at UBC Okanagan Campus. She is a fluent speaker and teacher of the Nsyilxcn Okanagan language\, and a traditional knowledge keeper of the Okanagan Nation.  She is a founder of En’owkin\, the Okanagan Nsyilxcn language and knowledge institution of higher learning of the Syilx Okanagan Nation. She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Ethics and Syilx Indigenous Literatures. \n\n\n\nJeannette is the recipient of the Eco Trust USA Buffett Award in Indigenous Leadership\, and in 2016 received the BC George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award. She is an author whose published works include poetry\, prose and children’s literary titles\, and academic writing on a wide variety of Indigenous issues.  She currently serves on Canada’s Traditional Knowledge Subcommittee of the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada. Jeannette was recently named to the class of 2021 as a Fellow in the Royal Society of Canada. \n\n\n\nSome of her publications include: \n\n\n\n\nSlash. Theytus\, 1987; revised edition\, 1998.\n\n\n\nWhispering in Shadows. Theytus Books\, 1999.\n\n\n\nBreathtracks. Theytus\, 1991.\n\n\n\nEnwhisteetkwa; Walk in Water (for children). Theytus\, 1982.\n\n\n\nNeekna and Chemai (for children)\, illustrated by Barbara Marchand. Theytus\, 1984.\n\n\n\nwith Douglas Cardinal. The Native Creative Process: A Collaborative Discourse. Theytus\, 1992.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGregory Cajete is a Native American educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. Dr. Cajete is a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo\, New Mexico. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete is a practicing ceramic\, pastel and metal artist. He is extensively involved with art and its application to education. He is also a scholar of herbalism and holistic health. Dr. Cajete also designs culturally-responsive curricula geared to the special needs and learning styles of Native American students. \n\n\n\nHe worked at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico for 21 years. While at the Institute\, he served as Dean of the Center for Research and Cultural Exchange\, Chair of Native American Studies and Professor of Ethno- Science.  He is the former Director of Native American Studies (18 years) and is Professor Emeritus in the Division of Language\, Literacy and Socio Cultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico.  In addition\, he has lectured at colleges and universities in the U.S.\, Canada\, Mexico\, New Zealand\, Italy\, Japan\, Russia\, Taiwan\, Ecuador\, Peru\, Bolivia\, England\, France and Germany. \n\n\n\nDr. Cajete has authored 10 books: “Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education\,” (Kivaki Press\, 1994); “Ignite the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Curriculum Model”\, (Kivaki Press\, 1999); “Spirit of the Game: Indigenous Wellsprings (2004)\,”  “A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living\,” and “Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence” (Clear Light Publishers\, 1999 and 2000).   “Critical Neurophilosophy and Indigenous Wisdom\,” Don Jacobs (Four Arrows)\, Gregory Cajete and Jongmin Lee) Sense Publishers\, 2010.  “Indigenous Community: Teachings of the Seventh Fire\,” (Living Justice Press\, 2015). His most recent books are edited volumes entitled: “Native Minds Rising” and “Sacred Journeys” (John Charlton Publications\, 2020). Dr. Cajete also has chapters in 36 other books along with numerous articles and over 350 national and international presentations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmethyst First Rider is a member of the Kainai Nation\, Blackfoot Confederacy\, Alberta\, Canada and married to Leroy Little Bear. She is a leader in the performing arts community for more that 20 years\, producing and directing plays depicting Aboriginal stories and culture. Her experience in the arts has included dance productions\, consulting for the University of California\, Berkeley’s planetarium\, as well as narration and production in the National Film Board’s documentary: Kainayssini Imanistaiswa\, The People Go On.  She co-conceived Iniskim an immersive puppet lantern performance celebrating the reintegration of Bison into the natural ecosystem of Banff National Park. She is central to the development and success of The Buffalo: A Treaty of Cooperation\, Renewal and Restoration signed by over 30 First Nations and Tribes in Canada and the USA.  It is the biggest modern Treaty amongst First Nations.  Its purpose is to “one again welcome the Buffalo to live among us” and it recognizes “Buffalo as a wild free-ranging animal and as an important of the ecological ecosystem.” She is also a founding-advisor to the Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin Wall Kimmerer is a mother\, scientist\, decorated professor\, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom\, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants\, which has earned Kimmerer wide acclaim. Her first book\, Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses\, was awarded the John Burroughs Medal for outstanding nature writing\, and her other work has appeared in Orion\, Whole Terrain\, and numerous scientific journals. She tours widely and has been featured on NPR’s On Being with Krista Tippett and in 2015 addressed the general assembly of the United Nations on the topic of “Healing Our Relationship with Nature.” Kimmerer is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology\, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment\, whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability. \n\n\n\nAs a writer and a scientist\, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities\, but restoration of our relationships to land. She holds a BS in Botany from SUNY ESF\, an MS and PhD in Botany from the University of Wisconsin and is the author of numerous scientific papers on plant ecology\, bryophyte ecology\, traditional knowledge and restoration ecology. As a writer and a scientist\, her interests in restoration include not only restoration of ecological communities\, but restoration of our relationships to land. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York\, tending gardens both cultivated and wild. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMelissa K. Nelson is an ecologist and Indigenous scholar-activist. She earned her Ph.D. in ecology at the University of California\, Davis. Formerly a professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University\, she now teaches at Arizona State University in the School of Sustainability\, Global Futures Laboratory. From 1993 to 2021\, she served as the founding executive director and CEO of the Cultural Conservancy. She now serves as their president emerita. Melissa is the Bundle Holder for the Native American Academy. She is a contributor and co-editor of Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability published by Cambridge University Press in 2018. She is also a contributor and the editor of Original Instructions: Indigenous Teachings for a Sustainable Future (2008). She is Anishinaabe/Métis/Norwegian and a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe (1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Harvey Locke is a conservationist\, writer and photographer who lives in Banff National Park\, Canada. He works on protecting the natural world and humanity’s relationship with nature at all scales from local to global. He has a particular interest in both the patterns and processes of nature and in shared narratives that genuinely engage both western science and other knowledge systems to build an equitable\, nature positive and carbon neutral world. He is a co-founder of the Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative\, the global Nature Needs Half Movement and the Nature Positive global goal for nature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLee Nichol is a freelance writer and editor. His latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and\, as editor\, the forthcoming Holoflux:Codex – Form/Movment/Vision inspired by David Bohm (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm\, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue\, The Essential David Bohm\, and On Creativity. \n\n\n\nLee has been on the faculty of the Arthur Morgan School in Celo\, North Carolina; the Oak Grove School in Ojai\, California; the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley\, California; and Denver University in Denver\, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center\, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute\, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. Lee lives in Albuquerque\, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/indigenous-dialogue-walk-in-beauty/
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SUMMARY:Bohm and Philosophy: An Introduction
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/FlW7_cQmPNo?si=kUSEgshFmyGySUbj\n\n\n\n\n\nBohm and Philosophy: An Introduction \n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 6\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThis introductory talk will provide an overview of the topic of Bohm and philosophy.  Bohm worked on many topics and from different points of view over the years.  Are there some themes and views which persisted?  What might contemporary philosophers learn from Bohm? \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, Ph.D.\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/
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SUMMARY:Creativity and the Generative Order
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/JGI7HOnaXC8?si=1t3V7bNPNAAHwy-T\n\n\n\n\n\nCreativity and the Generative Order \n\n\n\nwith Petteri Limnell interviewed by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 7\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nOne issue that David Bohm was concerned with was creativity. In physics some of his models appeared deterministic\, raising the question of how genuine creativity is possible if everything is pre-determined.  In this discussion Limnell and Pylkkänen explore how creativity and freedom can be understood in the Bohmian physical universe. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPetteri Limnell lives in Pori\, Finland. He was awarded his Master’s in philosophy in 2008\, from the University of Tampere\, Finland. The subject of his thesis was about the moment NOW—the ‘Analysis of the present Moment from the Perspectives of Physics\, Metaphysics and Consciousness Studies.’ His BA thesis was about creativity: ‘Paul Feyerabend’sFarewell to Personal Creativity.’  Limnell teaches two ongoing courses at the Pori municipality Center\, and has worked as a consultant\, teacher\, tutor and in-house philosopher at the Pori Art Museum. He also works for the Critical College of Finland and runs the Satakunta Critical College in Pori. I have been President of the Pori Philosophical Society for 11 years\, since the very beginning. His main interests in philosophy relate to three of Popper’s ‘emergent’ worlds. Why and how do the universe\, life and human beings and consciousness exist? It all ultimately culminates in Kant’s three questions: ‘What can I know?\,’ ‘What should I do?\,’ and ‘What can I hope for?’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, Ph.D.\, is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki\, Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, Sweden\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Programme. His main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. In his book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that new notions emerging from quantum physics (especially Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation) provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness.  In 2018-2020 working as the Vice Dean of Research at the Faculty of Arts he had the main responsibility for developing the new profiling area Mind and Matter for the University of Helsinki https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/mind-and-matter. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and was a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/
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SUMMARY:The Role of Philosophy in Bohm and Hiley’s Research in Physics
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/hJ2RTsloqlQ?si=MvxMGl1CVxUqCs1i\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Role of Philosophy in Bohm and Hiley’s Research in Physics \n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley interviewed by Petteri Limnell \n\n\n\nSaturday August 20\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nBasil Hiley worked with David Bohm for over 30 years. While their research focused on physics\, philosophy played an important role in the discussions.  What was this role? In this session Petteri Limnell interviews Basil Hiley to find out. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBasil J. Hiley is a British quantum physicist and professor emeritus of the University of London. He received the Majorana Prize ‘Best Person in Physics’ in 2012. A long-time co-worker of David Bohm\, Hiley is known for his work with Bohm on the implicate order and for his work on algebraic descriptions of quantum physics in terms of underlying symplectic and orthogonal Clifford algebras. Hiley co-authored the book The Undivided Universe with David Bohm\, which is considered the main reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nThe work of Bohm and Hiley has been characterized as primarily addressing the question ‘whether we can have an adequate conception of the reality of a quantum system\, be this causal or be it stochastic or be it of any other nature’ and meeting the scientific challenge of providing a mathematical description of quantum systems that matches the idea of an implicate order. \n\n\n\nIn 1961 Hiley was appointed assistant lecturer at Birkbeck College\, where Bohm had taken the chair of Theoretical Physics shortly before. Hiley wanted to investigate how physics could be based on a notion of process\, and he found that David Bohm held similar ideas. He reports that during the seminars he held together with Roger Penrose he was particularly fascinated by John Wheeler’s ‘sum over three geometries’ ideas that he was using to quantize gravity. \n\n\n\nHiley worked with David Bohm for many years on fundamental problems of theoretical physics. Initially Bohm’s model of 1952 did not feature in their discussions; this changed when Hiley asked himself whether the ‘Einstein-Schrödinger equation\,’ as Wheeler called it\, might be found by studying the full implications of that model. They worked together closely for three decades. Together they wrote many publications\, including the book The Undivided Universe: An Ontological Interpretation of Quantum Theory\, published 1993\, which is now considered the major reference for Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nIn 1995\, Basil Hiley was appointed to the chair in physics at Birkbeck College at the University of London. He was awarded the 2012 Majorana Prize in the category The Best Person in Physics for the algebraic approach to quantum mechanics and furthermore in recognition of ‘his paramount importance as natural philosopher\, his critical and open minded attitude towards the role of science in contemporary culture.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPetteri Limnell lives in Pori\, Finland. He was awarded his Master’s in philosophy in 2008\, from the University of Tampere\, Finland. The subject of his thesis was about the moment NOW—the ‘Analysis of the present Moment from the Perspectives of Physics\, Metaphysics and Consciousness Studies.’ His BA thesis was about creativity: ‘Paul Feyerabend’sFarewell to Personal Creativity.’  Limnell teaches two ongoing courses at the Pori municipality Center\, and has worked as a consultant\, teacher\, tutor and in-house philosopher at the Pori Art Museum. He also works for the Critical College of Finland and runs the Satakunta Critical College in Pori. I have been President of the Pori Philosophical Society for 11 years\, since the very beginning. His main interests in philosophy relate to three of Popper’s ‘emergent’ worlds. Why and how do the universe\, life and human beings and consciousness exist? It all ultimately culminates in Kant’s three questions: ‘What can I know?\,’ ‘What should I do?\,’ and ‘What can I hope for?’
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SUMMARY:Consciousness\, Bohm and the Quest for Intelligibility
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/pZQLlQvxT1s?si=iG28bDKssti52KB7\n\n\n\n\n\nConsciousness\, Bohm and the Quest for Intelligibility \n\n\n\nwith William Seager \n\n\n\nSunday August 21\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm’s interpretation of quantum mechanics can be understood as driven by a need for an intelligible account of the physics of the world. But Bohm went beyond physics and linked the physics to metaphysics\, especially the metaphysics of consciousness. I will explore how the drive towards an intelligible account of the world and our place in it led Bohm to a view of nature which is arguably a form of panpsychism. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWilliam Seager is Professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto Scarborough. He has been working on the the philosophy of mind and especially the problem of consciousness for about 45 years\, but still hasn’t gotten very far. Two recent books of his are Theories of Consciousness (2nd ed. 2016) and The Routledge Handbook of Panpsychism (2020).
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/consciousness-bohm-and-the-quest-for-intelligibility/
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Prof. Avi Loeb
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcckBzlhbcw\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Prof. Avi Loeb and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday August 249:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nJoin the event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84147810626 \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nTo count as scientific\, evidence must be replicable. What to do with anomalies\, then? Rare-but-relevant events can help rather than hinder scientific progress. In fact\, science is not about making puzzles by discarding unfit pieces. In this installment of The Future Scientist series\, we will consider the interesting triad formed by the words “evidence”\, “experts” and “extraterrestrial”. On October 19th 2017 an interstellar object called ‘Oumuamua was detected passing relatively close to the Earth. Its behavior was anomalous-enough to interpret it as either a natural object of a type never seen before\, or as an artificial object. Whether ‘Oumuamua is some sort of extraterrestrial technological debris or not we cannot say with certainty now\, but we can certainly prepare ourselves to search for more. Enrico Fermi famously asked “where is everybody?”. Daring to look may entail seeing. As astounding images of unimaginable distant galaxies come from the Webb telescope\, perhaps we could also tailor telescopes to pay attention to closer objects moving fast in the sky. Cosmological matters cannot be disentangled from sociological ones. What unknowns should be studied\, and why? While stagnated research avenues continue to get a great deal of attention and funding\, the suggestion to search for signs of extraterrestrial life by means of a kind of extraterrestrial archeology is still often met with reluctance\, if not derision. And yet\, extraordinary evidence requires extraordinary funding\, claims Avi Loeb\, paragraphing Carl Sagan’s skeptic mantra. On a bigger picture (or perhaps smaller)\, the current academic culture wears out creative\, authentic\, and generous individuals\, indoctrinating them into the narrow conservative chambers of the familiar. But what does society want? And how can science operate at its uppermost potential? The future scientist will certainly know herself as not-knowing. She will be a friend of the unknown. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbraham (Avi) Loeb is the Frank B. Baird\, Jr.\, Professor of Science at Harvard University and a bestselling author (in lists of the New York Times\, Wall Street Journal\, Publishers Weekly\, Die Zeit\, Der Spiegel\, L’Express and more). He received a PhD in Physics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel at age 24 (1980-1986)\, led the first international project supported by the Strategic Defense Initiative (1983-1988)\, and was subsequently a long-term member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1988-1993). Loeb has written 8 books\, including most recently\, Extraterrestrial\, and nearly a thousand papers (with h-index of 119 and i10-index of 543) on a wide range of topics\, including black holes\, the first stars\, the search for extraterrestrial life and the future of the Universe. Loeb is the Director of the Institute for Theory and Computation (2007-present) within the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics\, and also serves as the Head of the Galileo Project (2021-present). He had been the longest serving Chair of Harvard’s Department of Astronomy (2011-2020) and the Founding Director of Harvard’s Black Hole Initiative (2016-2021). He is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences\, the American Physical Society\, and the International Academy of Astronautics. Loeb is a former member of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) at the White House\, a former chair of the Board on Physics and Astronomy of the National Academies (2018-2021) and a current member of the Advisory Board for “Einstein: Visualize the Impossible” of the Hebrew University. He also chairs the Advisory Committee for the Breakthrough Starshot Initiative (2016-present) and serves as the Science Theory Director for all Initiatives of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation. In 2012\, TIME magazine selected Loeb as one of the 25 most influential people in space and in 2020 Loeb was selected among the 14 most inspiring Israelis of the last decade. Click here for Loeb’s commentaries on innovation and diversity. \n\n\n\nPersonal website: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-scientist-a-conversation-with-prof-avi-loeb/
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SUMMARY:Why Bohm was Never a Determinist
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/m16j7dcsipo?si=VITcDJ5I7JuVg8-i\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy Bohm was Never a Determinist \n\n\n\nwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nSaturday August 27\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm’s theory of quantum mechanics is mostly known as a way to give a fully deterministic account of quantum mechanics. For this reason\, it has often been thought that Bohm’s aim was to restore the determinism of classical physics\, and he has been criticized as conservative and unwilling to accept the radical implications of quantum physics. \n\n\n\nHowever\, although the interpretation of quantum mechanics which Bohm proposed in 1953 does indeed have the feature of being deterministic\, for Bohm this was never the main point. In other texts which he published shortly before and after\, he argued that the assumption that nature is deterministic is unjustified\, and modified his interpretation to give a role to pure chance. His aim was a different one: to develop an intuitively understandable theory of quantum mechanics. This talk will explore the aims and philosophical commitments which motivated Bohm’s work in physics\, and argue that the role of determinism in debates about quantum physics has generally been exaggerated. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarij van Strien is a postdoctoral researcher at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. After studying physics and history and philosophy of science at Utrecht University\, she obtained a PhD at Ghent University. Her research focusses on the relation between physics and philosophy\, and in particular the philosophical implications that have been drawn and can be drawn from theories in physics.
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SUMMARY:Aristotelian Metaphysical and Epistemological Reflections in David Bohm
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://youtu.be/RZtVgSeG7Vo?si=9BeaWhbcMXq-MDM5\n\n\n\n\n\nAristotelian Metaphysical and Epistemological Reflections in David Bohm \n\n\n\nwith Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila \n\n\n\nSunday August 28\, 20229:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIt is well known that David Bohm’s causal interpretation of quantum mechanics and its development with Basil Hiley offers a realist ontological view of particles\, waves\, quantum potential\, and active information (Bohm 1952\, 1985\, 1988\, 1989\, 1990; Bohm and Hiley 1975\, 1987\, 1993). However\, the other epistemological and metaphysical underpinnings of the causal interpretation are still in need of detailed scrutiny. This presentation will explore two other realist components in Bohm’s thinking which bear some resemblance to Aristotle’s philosophy. The familiar argument from laws to the existence of the quantum objects and the reality of their properties will be only briefly mentioned. The focus will be on Bohm’s peculiar methodology of intuitive intelligibility (II)\, and his argument for the two metaphysical properties of causal powers\, which bear clear similarities to Aristotle’s epistemology and metaphysics. \n\n\n\nThe first part of the talk presents the (II) methodology. It is developed and applied it to demonstrate the reality of the strange properties of quantum causation\, such as\, non-locality\, self-activity\, and holism\, by showing that they are similar to phenomena in our daily life and thus familiar in common experience (Bohm and Hiley 1987\, 1993). In this manner Bohm and Hiley respond to the challenges of physicists to develop an intuitively comprehensible interpretation of quantum mechanics (see Pylkkänen 2017). The argument here will be that the (II) methodology has a systematic role in the causal interpretation. \n\n\n\nThe epistemological approach underlying the (II) methodology truly differs from the then popular empiricist epistemology\, according to which observations and observations merely\, form a foundation of scientific research. Observations\, though an important source and criteria of knowledge\, constitute a mere subset of what can be taken as common experience. However\, one may point to interesting similarities between the epistemological background assumptions of the (II) methodology and Aristotle’s methodology of saving the appearances (SA) (Aristotle Nicomachean Ethics\, for (SA) see Nussbaum 1986). In spite of important methodological differences\, both saving the appearances position and the (II) methodology adopt the epistemological stand that common experience is a valuable source of scientific and philosophical knowledge. \n\n\n\nThe second part of the presentation discusses the metaphysical properties of active information as a causal factor. A closer look at how Bohm speaks about active information as a causal factor in connection with the radio\, for instance\, reveals the power concept of causation (Meincke 2020). This forms a clear contrast to the empiricist view of causation as consisting merely of regularities between concomitant events. In talking about the functioning of the radio\, for instance\, one can identify two traditional metaphysical properties of causal powers (Bohm 1989\, Bohm and Hiley 1987\, 1993). These are the distinction between actuality and potentiality and the idea of full power as constituting of a pair of partner powers\, one active and the other a receiver of the activity of the other (Aristotle Metaphysics book IX chs. 1-7). \n\n\n\nThe claim that the causal interpretation involves classical elements of power metaphysics\, may sound somewhat puzzling\, since Bohm and Hiley do not explicitly speak about powers and their metaphysical properties. This can be explained in a natural way\, however\, by referring to Aristotle’s argument against Megaric philosophers for the necessity of potentialities (Metaphysics book IX ch. 3). My claim is that while Aristotle shows that the reality of potentialities is a necessary precondition of human action and causal relations in general\, the epistemological approach of the causal interpretation is quite similar. Power metaphysics is adopted as a chief element underlying our common experience. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarja-Liisa Kakkuri-Kuuttila has been professor of Philosophy of Management at the Aalto University Business School. She has taught courses in Philosophy of the Social Sciences and other philosophy courses for business students. She has worked on the dialogue method and philosophy of science in Aristotle and contemporary notions of dialogue. This interest has inspired her recently to investigate methodology and ontology in David Bohm’s and Basil Hiley’s causal interpretation of quantum mechanics.
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SUMMARY:The Enchanted Universe
DESCRIPTION:Dates: August 29 – September 5\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Jessica Ball\, Bernard Carr\, Patrick Curry\, Alex Gomez-Marin\, Ruth Kastner\, Alison MacLeod\, Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nChaired by Alex Gomez-Marin \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1700.00 euros (This fee includes 7-night stay in private accommodation\, all meals and sessions and workshops.) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nEnchantment is the experience of sheer wonder. It returns us to a state of mind\, and condition of the world\, as undivided concrete magic: equally natural and cultural\, material and spiritual\, inner and outer.Patrick Curry \n\n\n\nThis will be an informal meeting with presentations by experts followed by roundtable discussions. The cost of the event is 1700.00 euros. The event fee includes a 7-night stay in private accommodation and all meals. It also includes activities\, materials\, sessions and workshops. The event starts on Monday August 29 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Monday September 5 after lunch. \n\n\n\nParticipating in an event at the Pari Center means not only meeting with scholars and experts but living for a week in a medieval village\, mingling with the tiny local population\, eating local dishes and drinking local wines\, appreciating the beauty of the surrounding countryside\, and participating in a very gentle way of life far from the frenzy of work and city living. David Peat compared Pari to an alchemical vessel—a place where transformation can come about—as well as an opportunity to pause for a moment and re-assess one’s life. It’s a unique opportunity open to everyone. \n\n\n\nPlease contact Eleanor if you would like more information about this event at: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\nWhile technology is occupying an ever growing place in our modern world and the predominance of abstraction gets us farther and farther removed from the living world\, an increasing longing is developing for a return to our roots in nature\, to the enchantment and awe of existence\, to the fantastic realms of imagination\, to the symbolic richness of myth and fairytale. \n\n\n\nWe are meaning-making creatures\, we are explorers and adventurers of the symbolic dimension. We feel that our life is worth living only when our experiences speak to us\, when we live in conversation with the mystery\, when we commune with it. \n\n\n\nCome join us in this journey through the forests of imagination\, reclaiming a territory we once roamed\, recovering the soul of the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations:\n\n\n\nThe Body\, Nature and Dialogue with Jessica Ball \n\n\n\nThe View Beyond: Magic and Enchantment at the Frontiers of Physics with Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nWhat is Enchantment\, and What Follows? with Patrick Curry \n\n\n\nScience and Magic: A Disturbing Charming Braid with Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nQuantum Physics and the Return of Enchantment with Ruth E. Kastner \n\n\n\nThe Deep Imagination\, Metaphor\, and “All’s One” Vision with Alison MacLeod \n\n\n\nBrain Seed: Planting the Mind in the Non-Human Universe with Hester Reeve \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation:\n\n\n\nFor additional information about the event\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor additional information about The Pari Center\, you can check the PDF. \n\n\n\nFor Terms and Conditions\, you can check the PDF.
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SUMMARY:Il Processo della Trasformazione
DESCRIPTION:Date: settembre 10 – settembre 11\, 2022 \n\n\n\nSpeakers:  Max Bindi\, Gloria Nobili\, Martina Stolzlechner\, Chiara Zagonel \n\n\n\nVenue: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrezzo: 420 euro \n\n\n\nSeminario teorico-esperienziale alla scoperta delleteorie quantistiche di David Bohm e di alcune sue applicazioni \n\n\n\nIl seminario si articola in un’alternanza di momenti di spiegazione e altri di sperimentazione pratica delle idee del fisico quantistico David Bohm: la vita e lo sviluppo del suo pensiero\, la tecnica metamorfica riletta alla luce del concetto di ordini di realtà\, la connessione tra fisica e senso della vita\, e la ricerca del superamento della coscienza individuale attraverso il dialogo bohmiano. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSabato 10 settembre 2022\n\n\n\nOre 10-11 \n\n\n\nSaluti iniziali. Presentazione del Workshop \n\n\n\nOre 11-13 \n\n\n\nFisica e metafisica di David Bohm: la sua vita e le sue ideecon Chiara Zagonel \n\n\n\nIl fisico americano David Bohm è stato una figura estremamente significativa nel panorama scientifico del secolo scorso e le sue idee ed intuizioni hanno contribuito a una trasformazione profonda e radicale dell’immagine della realtà.Aspetti fondamentali delle teorie di Bohm sono i concetti di processo\, di olismo e di totalità\, che nelle sue mani diventavano dei potenti strumenti di indagine e interpretazione della realtà e grazie ai quali Bohm è riuscito a creare un vero ponte con il mondo del misticismo\, raggiungendo moltissime persone anche al di fuori del mondo scientifico. \n\n\n\nOre 15 -18.30 \n\n\n\nL’ordine implicato a portata di manocon Martina Stolzlechner\n\n\n\nLa Tecnica Metamorfica\, sviluppata da Gaston Saint Pierre negli anni 70\, consiste in leggeri sfioramenti ai piedi\, alle mani e alla testa e opera oltre spazio\, tempo e materia\, raggiungendo il livello dell’Unità paradossale dell’Essere e del Non-Essere\, ossia l’ordine implicato di David Bohm. Per Gaston Saint-Pierre\, in ogni cosa c’è un’intelligenza innata che a partire da questo livello si manifesta in tempo\, spazio e materia. E’ come una ghianda che\, quando il tempo è maturo\, si trasforma proprio in una quercia perché dentro contiene questa coscienza\, questa intelligenza Nella prima parte del suo intervento\, Martina Stolzlechner ci presenta la Tecnica Metamorfica\, un semplice rituale dove viene riconosciuto il potere di trasformazione\, di metamorfosi\, che proviene dall’interno e si manifesta all’esterno\, proprio\, come l’onda quantistica diventa particella. E così interno ed esterno risultano avviluppati in un continuo divenire.Nella seconda parte del pomeriggio avremo modo di mettere in pratica questa tecnica e sperimentare l’essere semplicemente presenti ai fatti che emergono. \n\n\n\nOre 21 \n\n\n\nProiezione di un dialogo tra David Bohm e Jiddu Krishnamurti \n\n\n\nDomenica 11 settembre 2022\n\n\n\nOre 9-11 \n\n\n\nMente e materia tra matematica\, fisica e concezioni del mondocon Gloria Nobili\n\n\n\nNegli ultimi anni della sua vita\, David Bohm aveva allargato la ‘lettura’ della Fisica quantisitca secondo la sua interpretazione a connessioni molto più ampie\, che esulavano dalla stretta trattazione attraverso la formulazione matematica e le teorie scientifiche. Il suo sguardo si ricollegava all’uomo\, alle grandi domande che l’uomo si pone riguardo al senso della propria vita\, oltre alla relazione tra la parte impalpabile mentale e quella materiale connessa con le nostre percezioni sensoriali. \n\n\n\nOre 11.30-12.30Introduzione al dialogo bohmiano previsto nel pomeriggio. \n\n\n\nOre 14.30-17.30 \n\n\n\nIl dialogo bohmianocon Max Bindi\n\n\n\nGrazie alla facilitazione di Max Bindi il gruppo farà un’esperienza di dialogo bohmiano: una forma di dialogo libero dagli schemi dove si dà spazio al flusso della comunicazione e nel quale i partecipanti cercano di raggiungere una comprensione comune\, sperimentando il punto di vista di tutti completamente\, allo stesso modo e senza giudicare. \n\n\n\nOre 17.30-18 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nConclusioni\n\n\n\n Il costo dell’evento è di 420 euro. Sono previsti dei prezzi di favore per chi completa l’iscrizione secondo il seguente calendario: -I primi 12 iscritti entro il 15 luglio 2022 potranno usufruire di un prezzo agevolato di 380 euro. Dopo il 15 luglio il prezzo sarà quello intero di 420 euro. Il prezzo comprende: partecipazione alle attività previste dal programma\, alloggio in stanza privata nel caratteristico Borgo di Pari\, il pranzo e la cena di Sabato 10 settembre e la colazione e il pranzo di Domenica 11 settembre presso il Bar-Ristorante “Le Due Cecche”\, nella suggestiva piazzetta del Paese. Al momento dell’iscrizione dovrà essere versata una caparra di 200 euro\, da saldare entro il 01 di settembre. L’evento inizierà Sabato 10 settembre alle ore 10:00 e terminerà Domenica 11 settembre alle ore 18:00.
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Tim Ingold
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KGbCQKhE8A\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Prof. Tim Ingold and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday September 289:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE! \n\n\n\nJoin the event at the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82791503732 \n\n\n\nThe dialogue will be in a lively and spontaneous format of approximately 45 minutes up to an hour and we will then open up for questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nIn the current zeitgeist of conjectural multiverses and promissory metaverses it has become increasingly hard to know what counts as real. Simultaneously\, the dominant narrative insists on severing imagination from real life\, as experts are urged to tell fact from fiction. In this instalment of The Future Scientist series we will join Prof. Ingold in his venture to heal the bifurcation between imagined and real worlds. After having tackled what he deems to be the central question of anthropology (namely\, why people perceive their environments in different ways)\, the challenge now is\, as he puts it\, “to make allowance for imagination without reopening the gap between humanity and nature”. Completing a trilogy that started with The Perception of the Environment (2000) and Being Alive (2011)\, Ingold’s recent collection of essays entitled Imagining for Real (2022) masterfully merges relational\, systems\, and ecological thinking in order for imagination to join the real “instead of playing off against it”. Orbiting around “the inescapable condition of human existence in a world”\, and highlighting the central role of creation\, attention\, and correspondence\, Ingold gently but powerfully subverts the multi-\, inter-\, and trans-disciplinarily mantra and instead proposes a return to the perennial “love of learning” that The Future Scientist shall reenact. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Tim Ingold\, FBA\, FRSE\, is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland\, and has written on environment\, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North\, on animals in human society\, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology\, archaeology\, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000)\, Lines (2007)\, Being Alive (2011)\, Making (2013)\, The Life of Lines (2015)\, Anthropology and/as Education (2018)\, Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018)\, Correspondences (2020) and Imagining For Real (2022). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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SUMMARY:The Future Scientist - A Conversation with Stephen Jenkinson
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0veQNp3yW0&t=2091s\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Stephen Jenkinson and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday October 12 9:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe session is live and all registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThis event is free and open to everyone.  \n\n\n\nJoin the event at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81425962114 \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. \n\n\n\nAs the Future Scientist series is coming to an end\, we do not want to miss the opportunity to be in conversation with Stephen Jenkinson. Stephen is a poet of non-negotiable truths; a teacher who always talks about the very same ineffable but never says the same thing twice. He is sometimes known as “grief-walker” due to his insistence on avoiding the pervasive absurdity of the current cultural imperative to “die not dying”. Life includes everything (also death). Is science dying? Is dying a deity? In the face of culture failure\, we will discuss a method of inquiry that can reveal (and perhaps heal) our death phobia\, grief illiteracy\, and amnesia of ancestry. Beyond the current pernicious triad “cope\, hope & dope”\, we will acknowledge our own ectopic ideas and cultural homelessness. Stephen talks about the “death trade”\, whose biologism and psychologism resonates with the indoctrination of the “scientific trade”. Science is the agent\, the culprit\, and the victim of the restless impulse to globalize everything. We are sold seven paradigm shifts before breakfast – all expensive because they ask so little of us. Subversion too often becomes decoration. Can we avoid the famous dictum that history repeats itself\, first as tragedy\, then as farce? The future scientist shall inhabit (that is\, occupy without claiming ownership) an orphan wisdom that may lead to a sort of cultural redemption. Celebrating Leonard Cohen’s genius verse\, “there is a crack in everything\, that’s how the light gets in”\, this is not going to be an easy conversation. Stephen’s allegations are a dark pool of light – a harsh blessing that calls for reckoning and elderhood in a time of trouble for the sciences and for humanity writ large. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Jenkinson\, MTS\, MSW is a worker\, author\, storyteller\, musician and culture activist. In 2010\, he founded Orphan Wisdom\, a house for learning skills of deep living and making human culture that are mandatory in endangered\, endangering times. It is a redemptive project that comes from where he comes from. It is rooted in knowing history\, being claimed by ancestry\, working for a time he won’t live to see. When not on the road\, he makes books\, succumbs to interviews\, tends to labours on a small farm\, mends broken handles and fences\, and bends towards lifeways dictated by the seasons of the boreal borderlands. In 2016 he and Canadian singer/songwriter and recording artist Gregory Hoskins fused their separate works into an evening of music that is part concert\, part poetry\, part lamentation\, part ribaldry\, part lifting the mortal veil and learning the mysteries there. That’s what’s been performed to sold out houses in Australia\, New Zealand\, Canada\, England\, Ireland\, Scotland\, Wales\, Iceland and the USA. The Nights of Grief & Mystery is their devotional act. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Àlex Gómez-Marín is a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics and a Masters in biophysics from the University of Barcelona. He was a research fellow at the EMBL-CRG Centre for Genomic Regulation and at the Champalimaud Center for the Unknown in Lisbon. His research spans from the origins of the arrow of time to the neurobiology of action-perception in flies\, worms\, mice\, humans and robots. Since 2016 he is the head of the Behavior of Organisms Laboratory at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, where he is an Associate Professor of the Spanish Research Council. Combining high-resolution experiments\, computational and theoretical biology\, and continental philosophy\, his latest research concentrates on real-life cognition and consciousness. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Future Scientist Series\n\n\n\nScience as we know it is a relatively recent human invention. \n\n\n\nAfter the ‘scientific revolution’ of the seventeenth century\, science and philosophy remained entangled as ‘natural philosophy’ until they started to separate in the nineteenth century (the very word ‘scientist’ was coined in 1834). Subsequently\, science morphed from an activity carried out by wealthy people as a hobby (the ‘amateur\,’ in the etymological sense of the word) into a paid job within an institutionalized system (the ‘professional’). Paradoxically or not\, great ideas come more easily from people who are not paid to have them—it’s like forcing someone to be free\, or compelling creativity by an act of will. \n\n\n\nIn the last decades\, a series of technological and societal changes have further accelerated mutations of what it means to be a scientist; from the selection forces cast by neoliberalism on ‘scientific careers\,’ to the kind of ‘science in the age of selfies’ that social media promotes. Scientists too are prey to the perverse dynamics of nowadays ‘attention economy.’ To understand what scientists do and why they do it\, one must also understand the political and social contexts in which they live. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, the rise of ‘big science’—initially in physics (particle physics and astronomy)\, and subsequently in life and mind sciences (genomics\, and connectomics)—is reconfiguring the landscape typically inhabited by the romantic figure of the lone scientist receiving visions in dream-like states of consciousness and\, eventually\, advancing science in a stroke of genius. In turn\, the idea of the scientist bred in the current academe is that of a diligent caffeinated deluxe technician as a part within the larger mechanism of research group army; a person trained exquisitely (and almost exclusively) on a research aspect\, a specialist unable to keep track of what goes on beyond the narrow confines of his/her discipline. Young scientists are indeed trained to be good at following rules and procedures (explicit laboratory protocols\, but also implicit codes of conduct and metaphysical commitments) but discouraged to learn to see when and how to transcend them. \n\n\n\nIn turn\, the more recent promises of ‘big data’ and ‘artificial intelligence’ posit a near-future landscape where some of the core skills and tasks traditionally attributed to humans may be soon carried out by machines (or so the ‘scientific soteriologists’ claim). Algorithms are not just ingenious means to an end that require human intervention to imbue them with meaning\, but are swiftly becoming ends in themselves\, pretending they offer an automated unbiased interpretation of the data. \n\n\n\nA re-appraisal of the habits of the modern scientist entails an ethical dimension as well: why do we treat animals as objects (as means\, rather than ends in themselves)\, why do we study life in laboratories primarily by killing it\, and why do we study life in laboratories in the first place? These questions also reflect on ecological considerations regarding our place in nature (humans in relationship with other animals\, and other kingdoms of life) and our destruction of the planet. Francis Bacon’s prophetic vision of the Promethean scientist\, so vividly captured in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein\, has become both a cautionary tale and an inspiration. \n\n\n\nIn addition\, and despite the real ‘paradigm changes’ in physics at the beginning of the twentieth century\, other branches of science such as biology and neuroscience remain under the spell of philosophical promissory materialism. Research facts are sold in tandem with covert metaphysical commitments. The objective-subjective divide still puzzles both scientists and the layperson. The mind-body problem remains to be solved (or dissolved). \n\n\n\nIn sum\, the whole enterprise seems to be committed to suppressing broad thinkers\, promoting academics that look more like corporate managers\, PR mavericks and professional fund-raisers and less like scholars\, who are asked to inhibit their interest in philosophy\, and to cast suspicion on their fertile imagination. Dogma and habit are inhibiting free inquiry. \n\n\n\nIt is as if science as a whole is becoming less scientific. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn the face of this milieu of factors\, in this series of online events we seek to reflect on what ‘the future scientist’ may look like. This is an ambitious exercise indeed\, which goes beyond mere theoretical speculation. It is not unlikely that sooner than we think current science will be unrecognizable to most of us. The consequences for humanity writ large\, not just for scientists themselves\, are pressing. \n\n\n\nThe question at stake is whether by ‘future scientist’ we mean what scientists in the future are all likely to look like\, or what a future better scientist might look like. In our conversations we will engage more in prescribing than in predicting\, that is\, we might begin by describing where science is going (prediction) to then describe where we hope science might go (prescription). Attempting the art of ‘dia-logos\,’ we hope to express a creative voice that will enlighten the way of a new science in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\nThe series will be direct conversations\, that is\, no formal presentation of the invited speaker but a kind of ‘thinking aloud’ in the mode of a dialogue between each guest and Àlex Gómez-Marín as the conversation host. The idea is to engage critically with various aspects of ‘the future scientist’ in a lively and spontaneous format for approximately 45 minutes to an hour\, followed by comments and questions from the audience. Each conversation will take place virtually\, on a Wednesday each month. \n\n\n\nThe invited speakers to The Future Scientist series are chosen not just as great interlocutors to discuss these issues\, but also as exemplars and hints of what ‘the future scientist’ may actually look like here and now.
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