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SUMMARY:The Screen and the Soul
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6TRmZBZIpo\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Screen and the Soul: Virtual Reality\, Real Reality and How It Is \n\n\n\nwith Christopher Hauke \n\n\n\nSaturday July 39:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nFree Online Pari Dialogue \n\n\n\nThe Covid pandemic has required us to keep a broader social distance from one another; for psychotherapists this should be less of a problem. With reliable broadband making therapy sessions (and presentations like this one) possible online\, why do so many people still find the virtual session falls so far short of the ‘real’ meeting in person? Maybe our assumption that there is a ‘real’ version and there is an inferior ‘virtual’ version is wrong to begin with. Christopher Hauke will lay out three approaches to this question. \n\n\n\nThe first derives from quantum theorist David Deutsch and his book The Fabric of Reality (Deutsch\, 1997). The second approach digs further into philosophical implications around the idea that material reality is not an objective fact and consciousness is all there is. This is known as metaphysical idealism as analysed by Bernardo Kastrup’s (Kastrup 2020\, 2021) work especially his understanding of Jung’s metaphysics. \n\n\n\nLastly\, film narratives\, as well as factual ‘reality’ films\, have long been delivering ‘reality’ to us on screens in their own virtual way. So Chris will finish by discussing the bio-evolutionary ideas around visual perception\, affordance (Gibson\, 1979) and the central role of meaning in both film and the therapy session. In doing so\, he will bring us back to the definition of ‘virtual’ which flagged it as something in essence or effect. In this way he brings a new perspective to the idea of ‘real reality’ and ‘virtual reality’ in our new way of working. \n\n\n\nOn Saturday July 3\, Chris will open our monthly Community Call with a presentation and followed by discussion and Q&A. \n\n\n\nTHIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO EVERYONE!\n\n\n\nJoin our Zoom meeting via the following link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83111513487 \n\n\n\nIf you would like to participate\, have any questions or need any help just contact Eleanor Peat: eleanor@paricenter.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Hauke is a Jungian analyst in private practice and Senior Lecturer emeritus at Goldsmiths\, University of London interested in the applications of depth psychology to a wide range of social and cultural phenomena including film. His books include Jung and the Postmodern: The Interpretation of Realities\, (2000); Human Being Human. Culture and the  Soul  (2005) Visible Mind. Movies\, Modernity and the Unconscious.(2013). He has co-edited two collections of Jungian film writing: Jung and Film. Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image(2001) and Jung and Film II – The Return (2011). \n\n\n\nHis short films\, documentaries One Colour Red and Green Ray and the psychological drama  Again premiered in London venues and at congresses in Barcelona\, Zurich and Montreal. \n\n\n\nIn addition to new film projects he is now researching the limits of rationality\, and the place of the irrational in our lives.
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm: Science\, Order and Creativity
DESCRIPTION:Part 1: Physics and Metaphysics\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: Contemplation and Creativity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 1: Physics and Metaphysics \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam\, Basil Hiley\, Paavo Pylkkänen and Giuseppe Vitiello \n\n\n\nChaired by Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nJuly 10 – 11\, 17 – 18 and Closing Panel 25\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nTwo hour sessions on Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm has given a fundamental contribution to the still ongoing debate on the interpretation of quantum physics\, a contribution largely ignored by the mainstream physics community for decades\, but now being rediscovered and taken into consideration both in philosophical debate and in mathematical and experimental developments. \n\n\n\nThis first sequence of Beyond Bohm: Science\, Order and Creativity will explore some outer edges of these investigations. \n\n\n\n\nIt will describe how contextuality (one of the most puzzling features of the quantum world) is represented in the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum physics and compare it to various alternatives.\n\n\n\nIt will follow up Bohm’s investigation of consciousness in terms of a dialogue between the self and its Double (the representation it constructs of its surroundings).\n\n\n\nIt will outline the Dirac-Bohm picture\, a very significant recent mathematical result that provides a different physical intuition with which to understand quantum phenomena.\n\n\n\nIt will illustrate some of Bohm’s key philosophical contributions to a scientific metaphysics and sketch how they could be further developed in future research.\n\n\n\n\nTake this unique opportunity to participate in an exploration of what Bohm’s ideas mean for the future\, by former colleagues of David Bohm and scholars of his work. \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday July 10Contextuality in de Broglie-Bohm and Beyondwith Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSunday July 11The Brain and its Mindful Doublewith Giuseppe Vitiello \n\n\n\nSaturday July 17The Dirac-Bohm Picture: Bohm’s 1952 Approach in a Wider Contextwith Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday July 18Understanding the Nature of Reality and Consciousness: Bohm’s Philosophical Projectwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday July 25Closing Panel – Physics and Metaphysicswith Emily Adlam\, Basil Hiley\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini and David Schrum \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPart 2: Contemplation and Creativity \n\n\n\nwith more than 25 guest presentersChaired by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nAugust 14 – 15\, 21 – 22\, 28 – 29\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\nTwo hour sessions every Saturdays and Sundays \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live; recordings will be available for any sessions you are unable to attend. \n\n\n\nDavid Bohm’s work has been highly influential in the world of physics\, but his philosophical ideas crossed multiple disciplines with a holistic approach. This sequence of presentations will follow some of these ideas\, and explore new threads of inquiry inspired by Bohm: \n\n\n\nHow can artistic expression and philosophical inquiry complement one another? What is the role of imagination in exploring the polarity between participatory consciousness and literal thought? What can we learn from Indigenous cultures about enfoldment and unfoldment in the natural order? Can Bohm’s insight into participatory understanding\, along with Buddhist principles\, point the way through our collective human sorrow to what may lie beyond? What does the lineage of those who influenced Bohm’s dialogue tell us about the transmission and evolution of participative consciousness in today’s world? \n\n\n\nEach of these questions will be addressed in this six-part sequence of presentations. We hope you can join us as we attempt to stand on Bohm’s shoulders and peer into the future. \n\n\n\nAll sessions will be in ’roundtable’ format\, with each having a core group of guest presenters in conversation and dialogue. In most case\, the presentations will be followed 30 minutes of discussion and Q & A with all those attending the session. In total\, we have more than 25 guest presenters bringing their insights to ‘Beyond Bohm\, Part 2.’ \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 14Creativity and the Artistwith Jessica Ball\, Alison Churchill\, Emma Cocker and Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nSunday August 15Imagination and Participation: A Bohm-Barfield Nexuswith James Peat Barbieri\, Hester Reeve\, Mark Vernon. Facilitated by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSaturday August 21Transformation and Renewal Through Indigenous Dialoguewith David Begay (Navajo)\, Angelita Borbon (Yaqui)\, Greg Cajete (Tewa)\, Amethyst First Rider (Blackfoot)\, Rose Imai (Tuscarora)\, Leroy Little Bear (Blackfoot)\, Nancy Maryboy (Navajo)\, Melissa Nelson (Anishinaabe/Metis)\, Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday August 22Changing Consciousnesswith Sandra Fiegehen\, David Schrum and Stephen Smith \n\n\n\nSaturday August 28Dialogue’s Lineage and the Transmission of Participative Consciousnesswith Beth Macy\, Mark Ryan and Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nSunday August 29Beyond Bohm 2: Closing Sessionwith Leroy Little Bear\, Beth Macy\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol\, Hester Reeve and David Schrum
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SUMMARY:Contextuality in de Broglie-Bohm and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nContextuality In De Broglie-Bohm And Beyond with Emily Adlam€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContextuality in de Broglie-Bohm and Beyond \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSaturday July 10\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nContextuality is one particularly puzzling non-classical feature of the quantum world—but what conclusions should we draw from it? In this talk\, Dr Adlam will explain what contextuality is and why the presence of contextuality in our theories needs explaining. She will describe how contextuality is manifested in the de Broglie-Bohm interpretation of quantum mechanics and compare and contrast the de Broglie-Bohm account of contextuality to various alternatives. Finally\, she will discuss some interesting new mathematical approaches to contextuality and consider what these results add to our understanding. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Adlam is a theoretical physicist and philosopher of physics specialising in quantum information and foundations. She studied physics and philosophy at Oxford and then received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in relativistic quantum information. She recently published a book\, Quantum Foundations\, as part of the Cambridge University Press Elements of Philosophy series.
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SUMMARY:The Brain and its Mindful Double
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Brain And Its Mindful Double with Giuseppe Vitiello€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Brain and its Mindful Double \n\n\n\nwith Giuseppe Vitiello \n\n\n\nSunday July 11\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nBy repeated trial-and-error the brain constructs within itself\, through its mental activity\, an understanding of its surround\, that we describe as its Double. The relation that the self and its Double construct constitutes the meaning of the flows of information exchanged during their interactions. The act of consciousness resides in such a dialogue of the self with its Double. The continuous attempt to reach the equilibrium in this dialogue shows that the real goal pursued by the brain activity is the aesthetical experience\, the perfect ‘to-be-in-the-world.’ Active reciprocal responses between the self and the world imply responsibility and thus they become moral\, ethical responses through which the self and its Double become part of the larger social dialogue. Aesthetical pleasure unavoidably implies disclosure\, to manifest ‘signs\,’ communication. An interpersonal\, collective level of consciousness then arises\, a larger stage where the actors are mutually dependent\, each one simply non-existing without the others. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiuseppe Vitiello is Honorary Professor of Theoretical Physics\, University of Salerno\, Italy. \n\n\n\nAssociate (1983-2018) to INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare). Ph.D. in Physics\, University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee\, USA\, 1974. Research activity in elementary particles\, condensed matter physics\, biological systems and brain studies. Author of about 250 papers and of the books  My Double Unveiled – The dissipative quantum model of brain\, John Benjamins Publ. Co.\, Amsterdam 2001. H.Umezawa and G.Vitiello\, Quantum Mechanics\,  Bibliopolis\, Napoli 1986\, (Japanese translation by K.Yasue and M.Jibu\, Nippon Hyoron Sha. Co.Ltd.\, Tokyo\, Japan 2005). M.Blasone\, P.Jizba\, G.Vitiello\, Quantum Field Theory and its macroscopic manifestations\, Imperial College Press\, London 2011. G.G.Globus\, K.H.Pribram\, G.Vitiello (Editors)  Brain and Being. At the boundary between science\, philosophy\, language and arts\, John Benjamins Publ. Co.\, Amsterdam 2004. He collaborates since 2009 with Luc Montagnier (2008 Medicine Nobel Prize)\, on research on the electromagnetic properties of DNA and since 2003 has collaborated with Walter J. Freeman (deceased 2016) in neuroscience.
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SUMMARY:The Dirac-Bohm Picture: Bohm's 1952 Approach in a Wider Context
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nThe Dirac-Bohm Picture: Bohm’s 1952 Approach In A Wider Context. Basil Hiley€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dirac-Bohm Picture: Bohm’s 1952 Approach in a Wider Context \n\n\n\nwith Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSaturday July 17\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nIt has recently been shown that the Bohm approach outlined in his 1952 work is not a new type of ‘mechanics’ but is unitarily equivalent\, i.e. mathematically equivalent\, to the Schrödinger approach\, dealing directly with canonical coordinates (x\, p) rather than through the intermediary ‘wave functions’.  This fits in with the Stone-von Neumann theorem which explains why we already have the Schrödinger ‘picture’\, the Heisenberg ‘picture’\, the interaction ‘picture’ etc.  We have called it the Dirac-Bohm ‘picture’ based on a non-commutative algebra: it is from this picture that Bohm’s ’52 approach emerges.  The word ‘picture’ is here used in a technical sense\, but can be taken as providing a different physical intuition with which to understand quantum phenomena. \n\n\n\nAlthough many of the details are very technical\, Hiley will try to explain how the ideas provide a new way of looking at quantum phenomena\, which not only confirms Bohm’s philosophical insights\, but adds a new meaning to terms like the ‘Bohm momentum’\, the ‘osmotic momentum’ which\, in turn\, enables us to understand how the quantum potential fits in with the general notion of a gauge field.  The reason why the quantum potential gives rise to such a ‘strange’ force is that we are looking at it in terms of an interaction force.  However it gives rise to a different type of force which Einstein calls a ‘phoronometric’ force.  It is the type of potential that generates the Coriolis force which is responsible for the depressions arising in the Atlantic ocean giving us here in the UK such ‘wretched weather’ or the vortices that arise in the Bosporus.  What is not generally realised is that the perihelion precession of Mercury arises from just such a force in general relativity.  It is this mathematical structure that enables us to generate a new ‘dynamical geometry’ or better still a phoronometry providing new insights into the relation between the individual and the collective. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Basil Hiley\, collaborator and colleague of David Bohm for over 30 years \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.’
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SUMMARY:Understanding the Nature of Reality and Consciousness: Bohm’s Philosophical Project
DESCRIPTION:Buy the recording\n\n\nUnderstanding The Nature Of Reality And Consciousness: Bohm’s Philosophica Project. Paavo Pylkkänen€10\,00\n\n\nShop now\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen  \n\n\n\nSunday July 18\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \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. Such synthetic ontological projects were not popular in much of 20thcentury philosophy and thus Bohm’s philosophical work has been often ignored by professional philosophers. However\, it is important to realize that although he was clearly more concerned with describing a mind-independent reality than many other 20th-century physicists or philosophers\, this concern 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\, or the way language shapes our perception of reality. On the contrary\, his broad philosophical work includes extensive studies of various epistemic issues: physics and perception (Bohm 1965a)\, the notions of truth and understanding (Bohm 1964)\, a view of science as “perception-communication” (Bohm 1977)\, experimentation with the structure of language (the rheomode\, Bohm 1977)\, study of knowledge understood as process (Bohm 1974)\, and discussions of topics such as communication\, creativity\, art\, and so on. To fully appreciate Bohm’s views about the nature of reality\, they should be understood in the context of his epistemic considerations. \n\n\n\nWhat would it mean to go beyond Bohm in philosophy? Before doing that we ought to first be able to understand the philosophical significance of what he did. Perhaps his main contribution was to offer us a version of scientific metaphysics\, through his interpretations of quantum theory and the more general implicate order scheme he developed. The need for a scientific metaphysics has in recent years been energetically proposed by Ladyman and Ross in their “ontic structural realism”\, which is in some ways similar to Bohm’s implicate order scheme – perhaps some new possibilities arise when thinking together these schemes? But Bohm’s proposal to experiment with the structure of language and to ask what happens to epistemology if both reality and knowledge are processes offer likewise radically new perspectives for philosophy.  In this talk Pylkkänen will go through some of Bohm’s key philosophical contributions and sketch how they could be further developed in future research. \n\n\n\n\nhttps://philpapers.org/s/Paavo%20Pylkkänen\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, Philosopher of Mind\, Helsinki University\, Finland \n\n\n\nPaavo is Senior Lecturer in Theoretical Philosophy and Director of the Bachelor’s Program in Philosophy at the University of Helsinki. He is also Associate Professor of Theoretical Philosophy (currently on leave) at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience and Philosophy\, University of Skövde\, where he initiated a Consciousness Studies Program. \n\n\n\nHis main research areas are philosophy of mind\, philosophy of physics and their intersection. The central problem in philosophy of mind is how to understand the place of mind—and especially conscious experience—in the physical world. Pylkkänen has explored whether this problem can be approached in a new way in the framework of the new holistic and dynamic worldview that is emerging from quantum theory and relativity. He has in particular been inspired by the physicists David Bohm and Basil Hiley’s interpretation of quantum theory and has collaborated with both of them. \n\n\n\nIn his 2007 book Mind\, Matter and the Implicate Order (Springer) he proposed that Bohmian notions such as active information and implicate order provide new ways of approaching key problems in philosophy of mind\, such as mental causation and time consciousness. The overall aim of his research is to develop a scientific metaphysics. Paavo Pylkkänen has been a visiting researcher in Stanford University\, Oxford University\, London University\, Charles University Prague and Gothenburg University and is a member of the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in the Philosophy of Social Sciences (TINT).
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SUMMARY:Closing Panel: Physics and Metaphysics
DESCRIPTION:Closing Panel: Physics and Metaphysics \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam\, Basil Hiley\, Shantena Augusto Sabbadini and David Schrum \n\n\n\nSunday July 25\, 20219:00 PDT | 12:00 EDT | 17:00 BST  |  18:00 CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nIf you are unable to attend the live session\, the recording will be available. \n\n\n\nThe concluding panel of Part One of the Beyond Bohm event will examine work in progress in various areas related to Bohm’s thought. \n\n\n\nThe session will start with the panelists describing which developments of Bohm’s thought they consider most important for their work\, for their life and for philosophy in general. \n\n\n\nThe discussion will then be open to the audience. Conversation in small groups will be used to elicit relevant question and comments. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Series\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Adlam is a theoretical physicist and philosopher of physics specialising in quantum information and foundations. She studied physics and philosophy at Oxford and then received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in relativistic quantum information. She recently published a book\, Quantum Foundations\, as part of the Cambridge University Press Elements of Philosophy series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Basil Hiley\, collaborator and colleague of David Bohm for over 30 years \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\nShantena Augusto Sabbadini graduated from the University of Milan in 1968 and was awarded his PhD in physics from the University of California in 1976. In Milan he researched the foundations of quantum physics\, laying the base for what is currently known as the decoherence interpretation of quantum physics. At the University of California\, he contributed to the theoretical work behind the first identification of a black hole\, the X-ray source Cygnus X-1. In the 1990s he was scientific consultant for the Eranos Foundation\, an East-West research center founded under the auspices of C.G. Jung in the 1930s. In that context he produced various translations and commentaries of Chinese classics in Italian and English\, including the Yijing and the trilogy of Daoist classics\, the Laozi\, the Zhuangzi and the Liezi. From 2002 onwards he collaborated with F. David Peat running the Pari Center for New Learning and in 2017 he succeeded his friend and colleague as director of the center. \n\n\n\nShantena leads workshops and courses on the philosophical implications of quantum physics\, on Daoism\, and on using the Yijing as a tool for introspection. His most recent book in English\, Pilgrimages to Emptiness: Rethinking Reality through Quantum Physics\, was published by Pari Publishing in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid C. Schrum\, PhD. Quantum theorist \n\n\n\nDavid Schrum received his PhD in quantum theory from Queen’s University\, Canada (1971)\, after which he spent two years in post-doctoral studies with David Bohm at Birkbeck College\, London. At Birkbeck\, Schrum entered the world of Bohm’s creative and subtle philosophical approaches to physics\, and of his enquiry into the structure of consciousness and what may lie beyond. He was also introduced to his professor’s interest in the philosopher J. Krishnamurti. David Schrum continues engagement in these areas. \n\n\n\nFrom 1974 until retirement he taught at Cambrian College\, Sudbury\, Canada. Present areas of focus are relativistic quantum theory derived from a new application of the quantum principle\, and exploration and development of David Bohm dialogue as a process of shared enquiry into mind. \n\n\n\nHe is a board member of the Pari Center\, Italy.
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