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SUMMARY:Multiple Universes
DESCRIPTION:Multiple UniversesParallel Worlds in Quantum Physics\, Cosmology and Imagination \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr\, Geraldine Patrick Encina (Mapuche Descent)\, Ruth Kastner\, Tim Maudlin\, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz (Otomi-Toltec)\, Paul Tappenden and Jean François Vézina \n\n\n\nChaired by Shantena Augusto Sabbadini \n\n\n\nOctober 2 – 3\, 9 – 10\, 16 – 17\, 23 – 24\, 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\nIs the universe we live in unique? What lies beyond the boundaries of the universe we see? Was the process that we believe gave birth to our universe – the Big Bang –a singular event or are universes bubbling up all the time? Do we exist in different worlds and live parallel lives? \n\n\n\nSuch notions would have seemed outrageous a few decades ago: surprisingly\, as evidence begins to converge from different directions\, they are close to becoming scientific orthodoxy. \n\n\n\nThe Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann described a key motive in the evolution of scientific thought as “jettisoning excess baggage”. Ideas that were previously accepted as absolute truth (e.g. the idea that the Earth sits at the center of the cosmos) were later seen to be relative and simply a consequence of our particular perspective. Are we today on the edge of another such radical enlargement of our perspective by abandoning the notion of a single universe? \n\n\n\nIn this online course we will explore the idea of multiple universes (and multiple realities\, multiple selves) in science\, film\, science fiction\, indigenous wisdom\, etc. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday October 2The Multiverse and the Limits of Sciencewith Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nSunday October 3Dendritic Quantum Mechanicswith Paul Tappenden \n\n\n\nSunday October 10May The Force Be Between Us Exploring our MultiVerse with the help of Star Wars and Otherswith Jean-Francois Vezina \n\n\n\nSaturday October 16Discovering Multiple Possibilities in Quantum Theorywith Ruth Kastner \n\n\n\nSunday October 17Science\, Philosophy\, Evidence\, Explanation and Fine-Tuningwith Tim Maudlin \n\n\n\nSaturday October 23Is the Multiverse in the Mind or is the Mind in the Multiverse?with Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nSunday October 24Multiple Universes: Closing Sessionwith Bernard Carr\, Geraldine Patrick Encina\, Ruth Kastner\, Tim Maudlin\, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz\, Paul Tappenden\, Jean-Francois Vezina
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/multiple-universes-2/
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SUMMARY:The Multiverse and the Limits of Science
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeOyQW8QyoQ\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Multiverse and the Limits of Science \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nSaturday October 2\, 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\nDevelopments in both cosmology and particle physics suggest that our universe may just be one member of an ensemble of universes\, termed the multiverse. However\, there are many different versions of the multiverse proposal\, so it is important to distinguish between these in assessing the plausibility of the notion. In some versions the values of the physical constants may vary across the ensemble\, so this could provide a scientific basis for the suggestion that some of the constants are fine-tuned for the existence of observers. The evidence for this comes from numerous unexplained ‘coincidences’ between the constants\, a notion which used to regarded as purely philosophical or even theological. But what is the universe fine-tuned for? Is it for complexity or some physical feature (such as the existence of black holes) or is for life or consciousness. And is the multiverse a proper scientific proposal or just philosophical speculation? This depends on the definition of ‘science’ but it is argued that the nature of science has continually changed as our knowledge of the universe has expanded. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-multiverse-and-the-limits-of-science/
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SUMMARY:Dendritic Quantum Mechanics
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2LsAL9o_kw\n\n\n\n\n\nDendritic Quantum Mechanics \n\n\n\nwith Paul Tappenden \n\n\n\nSunday October 3\, 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 advent of quantum mechanics in the 1920s brought with it the idea that fundamental physical processes may be stochastic which is to say random but constrained by probabilistic law. Rather than the future being determined in advance\, as envisaged by Newtonian mechanics\, one actual future is stochastically selected from a range of alternativepossibilities. A way to restore determinism to physics is to replace the idea of a stochastic process with that of a dendritic process where all (possible) outcomes actually occur\, each in a different (branch) of a burgeoning quantum multiverse. The idea has been much discussed but remains very controversial. Paul explains some of the conceptual difficulties involved and how the idea may be linked to a non-standard materialist conception of the mind-body relation. \n\n\n\nIf you are constantly ‘splitting’ into every future previously thought merely possible\, in what sense is it you who lives through those futures? An analysis of trans-temporal identity is required. How can the concept of probability apply to multiple coexistent futures rather than the selection of a single actual future from a range of alternative possiblities? A thought experiment involving hypothetical parallel universes helps. If ‘splitting’ is intelligible\, what would the implications be for our choices in life if it came to be generally accepted by physicists and philosophers of physics? \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Tappenden’s first degree was in philosophy and psychology but he has long taken an interest in physics and was particularly fascinated by the philosophical problems associated with quantum mechanics. His PhD from King’s College\, London\, was an attempt to relate an important current debate in philosophy of mind with ideas in the so-called Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. Since then he has taught philosophy of science to physics students in Grenoble\, France\, and has pursued the ideas in his doctorate in a series of papers\, the most recent being in the journal Synthese\, 2019.
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SUMMARY:Multiple Universes in Mesoamerican Cultures
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-PDg5twUHw\n\n\n\n\n\nMultiple Universes in Mesoamerican Cultures \n\n\n\nwith Geraldine Ann Patrick Encina and Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz \n\n\n\nSaturday October 9\, 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\nDrs Mindahi Bastida and Geraldine Patrick will share about the cosmovision of Mesoamerican cultures\, where multiple simultaneous worlds are understood to exist. They will draw from different representations of such worlds and will also share personal experiences where they have had a glimpse into such alternate dimensions. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine Ann Patrick Encina (Mapuche Descent) has been a founding member of the Biocultural Heritage Network of Mexico since 2008\, is founder and executive director of Earth Timekeepers since 2016\, member of several pre-Columbian societies since 2015 and member of the Inter-American Society of Cultural Astronomy since 2013. \n\n\n\nShe has been a professor at the Intercultural University of the State of Mexico for courses on Ethnoecology and Biocultural Ethics (2007-2010)\, and at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Lerma (2012-2015) for Interdisciplinary Studies\, Complex Systems and Mesoamerican Calendars. \n\n\n\n Her research focuses on the ancestral and current ways of conceiving time and natural cycles in Mesoamerica\, especially among the Maya\, Otomian and Mexica cultures\, and since 2016 she has started study groups in four communities in Mexico and Guatemala with teachers\, university students and organized farmers and women interested in revitalizing their culture and traditional ways of living with the land. Among her publications are “Biocultural Sacred Sites in Mexico” in the book Indigeneity and the Sacred\, article Long Count in Function of the Haab and its Venus-Moon Relation. Application in Chichén Itzá and article Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent. Its Relation to Evening Venus\, Rains\, and the closing of 13 Bak’tun. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz (Otomi-Toltec) is the Director of the Original Nations Program at The Fountain and a member of the Mother Earth Delegation. He is an executive member of the Alliance Guardians of Mother Earth and a spokesperson of the recently created Grand Council of the Eagle and the Condor. He is also the General Coordinator of the Otomi Regional Council of the High Lerma River Basin\, Mexico\, that promotes the rights of nature and Mother Earth as well as the rights to self- determination of original nations. \n\n\n\nMindahi has served as a delegate to various commissions and summits on indigenous rights and sustainability\, including the 1992 Earth Summit and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD\, 2002). He was director of the Original Caretakers Program at the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City between 2015 and 2020 and has been invited to partake in several advisory councils. \n\n\n\nHe has written on the relation between the state and Indigenous Peoples\, intercultural education\, collective intellectual property rights and associated traditional knowledge\, biocultural sacred sites\, and other topics.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-cosmovision-of-mesoamerican-culture/
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SUMMARY:May the Force Be Among Us
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcEV5fcQCm0\n\n\n\n\n\nMay the Force Be Among Us: Exploring our MultiVerse with the help of Star Wars and other movies \n\n\n\nwith Jean-Francois Vezina \n\n\n\nSunday October 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\nJung defines the Individuation process as an expression of our own originality through collective and universal attraction points called archetypes. But can we imagine that an entire Planet or Universe has his own individuation?  If so\, how can we synchronise our personal Universe\, with the collective one? \n\n\n\nUsing the archetypal field of Star Wars Episodes 1-9\, Ready Player One\, Arrival and a surprise movie\, we will explore how to ‘travel’ through parallel universes or parallel time and extract valuable information about our Individuation in 2021. \n\n\n\nWe will use these movies to explore the concept of ‘Symphonicity\,’ a new way to see synchronicity on a collective level.  and learn how to extract Archetypal Ideas from the projection of our collective archetypical field on the screen that help inspire us in creativity in our lives. \n\n\n\nWe will then create a game to learn together the necessity of meeting the Unexpected and the necessary chances in our lives by using Arrival and a mystery movie. \n\n\n\nThis psycho-philo-poetic game is inspired by 20 years of research in my six books which I continue in the article: ‘The Space of Time: Synchronicity as an Act of Creation in Nature and Psyche’ that will be published in the next Pari Perspectives. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJean-François Vezina is a clinical psychologist in Quebec and author of 6 books including Necessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters That Transform Us by Pari Publishing. He was president of the Jungian society of Quebec for seven years and the animator and producer of the radio show Projections: Psychology and Cinema about symbols in the movies. He is also an international lecturer and a musician. www.jfvezina.net/
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/may-the-force-be-among-us/
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SUMMARY:Discovering Multiple Possibilities in Quantum Theory
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdDB8ueFnWU\n\n\n\n\n\nDiscovering Multiple Possibilities in Quantum Theory \n\n\n\nwith Ruth E. Kastner \n\n\n\nSaturday October 16\, 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\nIn her presentation Ruth will discuss the need for a paradigm change in the way we think about the world. When she says ‘we\,’ she means primarily the Western scientific tradition and its attendant metaphysical and epistemological background assumptions\, which have led to intractable problems in making sense of quantum theory. Among the assumptions leading us into this cul-de-sac are the empiricist notion that anything real must be tangible\, and the Democritan notions that (1) a container called ‘spacetime’ is the delimiter for all real objects and that (2) real entities are separable\, localizable ‘things’ that move from place to place in a local manner (as opposed to processes). A further Western background assumption is the notion that all dynamical action occurs in a unilateral fashion: e.g.\, that a physical quantity (e.g. energy) is emitted by one entity that does all the work and ends up at another spacetime point as a purely passive\, secondary effect. The latter can be understood as a ‘Yang-only’ view of interactions\, where Yang-type processes are generation\, initiation\, and creation. In contrast\, Yin-type processes include reception\, response\, and dissolution. The Western paradigm neglects this latter aspect\, and one consequence is that it has for many years overlooked an approach to field propagation that could shed new light on the physical meaning of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nRuth will also connect our current quantum conundrum to the insights of physician/psychologist Iain McGilchrist\, who has argued that Western culture has emphasized left-brain thinking (based on separation\, analysis\, and control) and neglected right-brain thinking (based on holism\, synthesis\, and intuition)\, which is equally valid and necessary. This holistic aspect includes the mode of possibility\, while the analytical\, left-brain component sees only actuality. Hans Reichenbach (expressing a minority view among philosophers of science) insightfully remarked that ‘the flow of time is a real becoming in which potentiality is transformed into actuality.’  The paradigm change required by quantum theory includes the recognition that potentiality\, or possibility (the intangible level described by quantum states and processes) is just as real as actuality (tangible spacetime phenomena). Thus\, quantum theory opens the door to an understanding that the phenomenal level of our experience rests upon a vast ocean of possibility from which creativity and the manifest level of life and experience emerges. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth E. Kastner earned her M.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Maryland. Since that time\, she has taught widely and conducted research in Foundations of Physics\, particularly in interpretations of quantum theory. She is the author of 3 books: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Theory: The Reality of Possibility (Cambridge University Press\, 2012; 2nd edition forthcoming in Fall 2021)\, Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (Imperial College Press\, 2015); and Adventures In Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality (World Scientific\, 2019).  She has presented talks and interviews throughout the world and in video recordings on the interpretational challenges of quantum theory.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/discovering-multiple-possibilities-in-quantum-theory/
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SUMMARY:Science\, Philosophy\, Evidence\, Explanation and Fine-Tuning
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt6nO3MTjvA\n\n\n\n\n\nScience\, Philosophy\, Evidence\, Explanation and Fine-Tuning \n\n\n\nwith Tim Maudlin \n\n\n\nSunday October 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\nVarious sorts of “multiverse” scenario force us to reflect both on the aims of physics and on the sorts of considerations that can make a theory credible. This topic has been somewhat suppressed in the physics community by the prevalence of operationist and instrumentalist rhetoric (“Shut Up And Calculate”). I will survey the situation with respect to how multiverse theories could address fine-tuning problems\, and the challenges that remain in making the principles used for assessing credibility clear and explicit. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTim Maudlin is Professor of Philosophy at NYU and Founder and Director of the John Bell Institute for the Foundations of Physics. His research interests lie primarily in the foundations of physics\, metaphysics\, and logic. His books include Quantum Non-Locality and Relativity (Blackwell)\, Truth and Paradox (Oxford)\, The Metaphysics Within Physics (Oxford)\, Philosophy of Physics: Space and Time (Princeton University Press) and New Foundations for Physical Geometry: The Theory of Linear Structures (Oxford). Philosophy of Physics: Quantum Theory comes out on March 12\, 2019. He is a member of the Academie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences and the Foundational Questions Institute (FQXi) and has been a Guggenheim Fellow and an ACLS fellow.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/quantum-mechanics-the-actual-world-and-other-possibilities/
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SUMMARY:Imagined Problems: Real Opportunities
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0CxUbY3iY\n\n\n\n\n\nImagined Problems: Real Opportunities \n\n\n\nwith Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert and Gary Goldberg \n\n\n\nWednesday October 209:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nThe science of perception tells us that our problems are subjective and socially constructed. So what is a “real” problem\, and what solutions become available to us?  In this engaging session\, Drs. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert\, MAPP\, PhD and Gary Goldberg\, MD discuss the nature of perception and “reality” in our VUCA world (volatile\, uncertain\, complex\, and ambiguous). They will also discuss how to move from feelings of overwhelm and despair to inspiration and agency by accessing our deep\, inner wisdom. Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey will be presented as a timeless\, increasingly relevant\, and useful frame for our individual and collective pursuit of meaning and authentic\, impactful action\, especially in light of our modern challenges. Personal stories and anecdotes will be used to illustrate how we can create our own sagas akin to Dorothy (Wizard of Oz) and Luke Skywalker (Star Wars). Participants will be invited to envision\, and then pursue their own achievable\, unique\, and deeply authentic solutions to achieve the beautiful new world that we all desire. \n\n\n\nOn Wednesday October 20\, Susanna and Gary will open our monthly Community Call 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/86035064521 \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\nDr. Susanna Wu-Pong Calvert is a 26-year veteran of higher education\, first starting at Virginia Commonwealth University where she was a faculty member in the School of Pharmacy\, Department of Pharmaceutics\, and Director of the Pharmaceutical Sciences Graduate Program for 11 years.  She joined the Office of Faculty Affairs at the University of Georgia in 2016 as the inaugural Director of Programming\, where she supported faculty success and wellbeing\, and leadership and organizational development for the 2300 faculty across the UGA campuses.  In 2018\, she founded the Foundation for Family and Community Healing\, who focuses on creating vibrant connections between individuals and their families\, communities\, and with Earth to promote wellbeing for all. \n\n\n\nSusanna has a Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy from the University of Texas\, Austin\, a Masters of Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania\, a PhD in pharmacy and pharmaceutical chemistry from the University of California\, San Francisco and a postdoctoral fellowship in dermatology\, also at UCSF.  During her career she has published almost 100 journal articles\, books\, and book chapters\, and has written hundreds of blogs for the Silver Lining blog (www.findingpositiveperspective.wordpress.com) and through FFCH.   She has several coaching credentials including Clifton StrengthsFinders\, Growth Edge Coaching\, Arbinger Institute\, and the Leadership Circle\, and is trained as a life coach.  Her passion is in helping individuals and organizations find and pursue their calling and the highest versions of themselves. \n\n\n\nFor more information on Susanna and her work www.HealingEdu.org and  www.SusannaCalvert.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Gary Goldberg received an undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of Toronto and then a Medical Degree from McMaster University.  He completed residency training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation with subspecialty certification in Brain Injury Medicine.  In 2020\, he retired from clinical practice after over 35 years working in the field of brain injury rehabilitation at academic medical centers in Philadelphia\, Pittsburgh and Richmond in the USA.  He now is focused on drawing on this work experience to seek a means of conjoining faith and science into a coherent conceptual framework of holistic inquiry. \n\n\n\nGary is an energetic member of the Pari Center\, actively participating in our online events and is a member of the Pari Center Advisory Board.
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SUMMARY:Is the Multiverse in the Mind or is the Mind in the Multiverse?
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKtozqHKuUA\n\n\n\n\n\nIs the Multiverse in the Mind or is the Mind in the Multiverse? \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr \n\n\n\nSaturday October 23\, 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\nPhysics has been triumphant in understanding the vast array of structures in the universe and the forces which link the microscopic and macroscopic domains. This link culminates in the big bang\, where the very small (M-theory) meets the very large (the multiverse). The history of physics might also be regarded as the expansion of our consciousness to ever larger and smaller scales. However\, at each stage the micro and macro frontiers have been regarded as bordering on philosophy because of the lack of empirical data. So does the merging of the two physics/philosophy borders at the big bang indicate the end of physics or the need for a radically new paradigm. I take the latter view and argue that a feature of the next paradigm must be an expansion of physics to accommodate mind and consciousness. This proposal impinges on two problems on the borders of physics and philosophy: the relationship between physical space and perceptual space and the nature of the passage of time. It is argued that the resolution of both these problems may involve a 5-dimensional model\, with the 5th dimension being associated with mental time. This proposal may relate to recent developments in brane cosmology\, which is one version if the multiverse proposal. A description of consciousness must also entail a proper understanding of the specious present\, the minimum timescale of conscious experience\, and this may be associated with other dimensions which arise in M-theory. Higher dimensions may therefore play a vital role in linking physics\, the multiverse and mind. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network.
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SUMMARY:Closing Panel: Multiple Universes
DESCRIPTION:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9MqWMqeslk\n\n\n\n\n\nClosing Panel: Multiple Universes \n\n\n\nwith Bernard Carr\, Geraldine Patrick Encina\, Ruth Kastner\, Mindahi Crescencio Bastida Muñoz\, Paul Tappenden and Jean-Francois Vezina \n\n\n\nSunday October 24\, 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\nA panel discussion with some of the speakers of the Multiple Universes series will close the event\, reflecting on the various perspectives that have emerged in the presentations and comparing different world views. \n\n\n\nThe session will begin by posing the panelists a few key questions to start the discussion. It will continue as a Q&A session open to everybody. You are invited to have your questions and comments ready\, and in formulating them please be mindful of other people’s need to ask their own questions! The best questions are often the most concise ones. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Multiple Universes Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe\, dark matter\, black holes and the anthropic principle. For his PhD he studied the first second of the Universe\, working under the supervision of Stephen Hawking at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge and the California Institute of Technology.He was elected to a Fellowship at Trinity College\, Cambridge\, in 1975 and moved to Queen Mary College in 1985. He has also held Visiting Professorships at Kyoto University\, Tokyo University\, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics. He is the author of nearly three hundred scientific papers and the books Universe or Multiverse? and Quantum Black Holes. Beyond his professional field\, he is interested in the role of consciousness in physics and in an expanded paradigm which accommodates mind. He also has a long-standing interest in the relationship between science and religion. He was President of the Society for Psychical Research in 2000-2004 and is currently President of the Scientific and Medical Network. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuth E. Kastner earned her M.S. in Physics and Ph.D. in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Maryland. Since that time\, she has taught widely and conducted research in Foundations of Physics\, particularly in interpretations of quantum theory. She is the author of 3 books: The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Theory: The Reality of Possibility (Cambridge University Press\, 2012; 2nd edition forthcoming in Fall 2021)\, Understanding Our Unseen Reality: Solving Quantum Riddles (Imperial College Press\, 2015); and Adventures In Quantumland: Exploring Our Unseen Reality (World Scientific\, 2019).  She has presented talks and interviews throughout the world and in video recordings on the interpretational challenges of quantum theory. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Tappenden’s first degree was in philosophy and psychology but he has long taken an interest in physics and was particularly fascinated by the philosophical problems associated with quantum mechanics. His PhD from King’s College\, London\, was an attempt to relate an important current debate in philosophy of mind with ideas in the so-called Everett interpretation of quantum mechanics. Since then he has taught philosophy of science to physics students in Grenoble\, France\, and has pursued the ideas in his doctorate in a series of papers\, the most recent being in the journal Synthese\, 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJean-François Vezina is a clinical psychologist in Quebec and author of 6 books including Necessary Chances: Synchronicity in the Encounters That Transform Us by Pari Publishing. He was president of the Jungian society of Quebec for seven years and the animator and producer of the radio show Projections: Psychology and Cinema about symbols in the movies. He is also an international lecturer and a musician. www.jfvezina.net/
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