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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meF3nIRcQDc&t=12s\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal and Dr. Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday February 158:30am PST  | 11:30am EST  | 4:30pm GMT  |  5:30pm CET \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nA monthly virtual encounter to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nFollowing an hour-long lively and spontaneous dialogue between Alex and his guests\, the sessions will be open to questions from the audience. \n\n\n\nWhat will the future look like? How will the Future Human live? How will families\, child rearing\, education\, health services\, work\, art\, religion\, love\, science\, language\, storytelling change? And politics\, economics\, government\, and the law? Will we be able to inhabit our planet in harmony\, have sufficient energy\, and afford to eat healthy food? Will we even survive? Can we thrive? These are just some of the topics that will be discussed online at the Pari Center in 2023. \n\n\n\nEach month the Director of the Pari Center\, physicist and neuroscientist Àlex Gómez-Marín\, will be thinking and feeling aloud in the mode of dialogue with a prominent guest for about an hour\, followed by questions and comments from the audience. Pursuing a major theme without rehearsal or script\, they will attempt to engage with ‘that’ which sometimes takes place between (and beyond) two people talking. \n\n\n\nThroughout 2022\, Àlex hosted the very successful conversation series The Future Scientist\, a monthly virtual encounter that aimed to understand where science is going and to reimage where we hope it might go. Maintaining the spirit and the format\, the series will now expand its scope and morph into The Future Human as a natural continuation of the quest to reckon whence and whither humanity. \n\n\n\nWe will inaugurate the series on Wednesday 15th of February of 2023 (from 17:30 to 19:00 CET) with Prof. Jeffrey J. Kripal. Our conversation will orbit around “The Superhumanities”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeffrey J. Kripal is the Associate Dean of the Faculty and Graduate Programs in the School of the Humanities and the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought at Rice University. He also helps direct the Center for Theory and Research at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur\, California and sits on numerous advisory boards in the U.S. and Europe involving the nature of consciousness and the sciences. Jeff is the author of ten single-authored books\, including\, most recently\, The Superhumanities: Historical Precedents\, Moral Objections\, New Realities (Chicago\, 2022)\, where he intuits an emerging new order of knowledge that can engage in robust moral criticism but also affirm the superhuman or nonhuman dimensions of our histories\, cultures\, and futures. He is presently working on a three-volume study of paranormal currents in the sciences\, modern esoteric literature\, and the hidden history of science fiction for the University of Chicago Press collectively entitled The Super Story: Science (Fiction) and Some Emergent Mythologies. His full body of work can be seen at http://jeffreyjkripal.com  He thinks he may be Spider-Man. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÀlex 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 across species\, from flies and worms to mice and humans. Since 2016 he has been 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 computational biology and continental philosophy\, his current research concentrates on consciousness in the real world.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-human-a-conversation-with-prof-jeffery-j-kripal/
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SUMMARY:Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:Entanglement: Physics\, Mind and Worlds \n\n\n\nwith Emily Adlam\, Jonathan Allday\, Basil Hiley\, José Latorre\, Dean Radin\, Vandana Shiva \n\n\n\nCurated by Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nFebruary 18 – March 5\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nGiven the recently awarded 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics to Alain Aspect\, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for the experiments with entangled photons\, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”\, the mysterious notion of entanglement has come back with renewed force not only to the Olympus of mainstream science\, but also to the lives of laypeople\, recapturing our imagination as to the fundamental interconnected nature of the cosmos. \n\n\n\nIn a spirit of celebration\, this online series brings together world-experts to discuss what entanglement entails\, from a theoretical perspective\, along with the experiments that have confirmed “spooky action at a distance” and closed increasingly implausible loopholes that might provide another explanation. \n\n\n\nThe conversation will also address the impact of entanglement beyond physics\, and its promise for technological applications in quantum computing. \n\n\n\nWe intend to cover in relative depth some of the following questions: What is entanglement? What experimental evidence is there for entanglement? Is entanglement the distinctive difference between classical and quantum physics? How does entanglement impact on conventional notions such as ‘part’ and ‘whole’? Does entanglement point to a different conception of space and time? How might entanglement impact on areas of conventional science – e.g.\, quantum biology\, consciousness studies? Is entanglement anything more than a useful analogy in areas of less conventional science – e.g.\, parapsychology? Has entanglement been anticipated in the worldviews of other cultures? Does entanglement radically undermine the prevailing materialist western worldview? \n\n\n\nAs physicist David Bohm proposed\, “the reason subatomic particles are able to remain in contact with one another regardless of the distance separating them is not because they are sending some sort of mysterious signal back and forth\, but because their separateness is an illusion. . . . At some deeper level of reality such particles are not individual entities\, but are actually extensions of the same fundamental something.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday February 18Entanglement for Amateurswith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday February 19Quantum Computingwith Prof. José Latorre \n\n\n\nSaturday February 25Spooky Action at a (Temporal) Distancewith Dr. Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSunday February 26My Entanglement with Entanglementwith Prof. Basil Hiley \n\n\n\nSaturday March 4Entangled Minds and Matterwith Dr. Dean Radin \n\n\n\nSunday March 5Living in a Non-Local World: Entanglement Meets Ecologywith Dr. Vandana Shiva
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/entanglement-2/
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SUMMARY:Entanglement for Amateurs
DESCRIPTION:Entanglement for Amateurs \n\n\n\nwith Dr. Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday February 18\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nIn this talk I will explore the theoretical aspects of entanglement\, keeping the technicalities to a minimum but providing an adequate grounding for the other presentations to come. The work of John Bell will be discussed\, as he provided a means of experimentally showing exactly how counter to classical expectations quantum entangled systems really are. The experiments that have been carried out based on Bell’s work will also be covered in outline. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJonathan Allday was born in Liverpool in 1960. He did his first degree in Natural Sciences at Cambridge in 1982 and then returned to Liverpool to complete a PhD in elementary particle physics. As part of this\, he was fortunate to spend some time working at the European particle physics centre\, CERN\, in Geneva. \n\n\n\nAlso\, during that time he was co-opted onto a working party looking at the teaching of particle physics in schools and universities. The upshot was a new syllabus in particle physics and cosmology to be added to UK A-level (16-18) physics qualifications. The first questions were set in 1992. \n\n\n\nOn the back of the work on this syllabus\, Jonathan wrote his first book Quarks\, Leptons and the Big Bang\, which was published in 1998 and is about to enter its fourth edition. Jonathan has also collaborated on a couple of textbooks and written his own books on Quantum Theory\, General Relativity and the Apollo moon missions. \n\n\n\nProfessionally\, Jonathan worked as a physics teacher for 30 years in a variety of independent day and boarding schools in the UK. He was a head of physics\, a head of science and latterly an academic deputy head. He retired in 2000 and now runs a consulting company providing training and educational advice for schools. \n\n\n\nJonathan is married to Carolyn\, and they have three sons all of whom are far better at sport than he was. Carolyn was a GB swimmer\, which explains how come the boys can do sport. Jonathan and Carolyn live in a hamlet not far from Worcester in the UK. When not writing or consulting\, Jonathan enjoys watching cricket\, James Bond movies and Formula 1 races.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/entanglement-for-amateurs/
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SUMMARY:José Ignacio Latorre
DESCRIPTION:Sunday February 19\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosé Ignacio Latorre got his PhD in Particle Physics at Univ. Barcelona. He was a Fullbright Fellow at MIT (USA) and a postdoc at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen. He then became associate professor at the Univ. Barcelona and\, later\, full professor in Theoretical Physics. \n\n\n\nHe has written over 100 papers on Particle Physics and Quantum Information and has directed 12 PhD thesis. \n\n\n\nHe was a founder of the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual. \n\n\n\nHe produced two documentaries\, one of them on the last voice of the Manhattan Project. \n\n\n\nHe works on Ariticial Intelligence and was a founder of the NNPDF collaboration. \n\n\n\nHe is a partner at Entanglement Partners. \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/jose-ignacio-latorre/
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SUMMARY:Spooky Action at a (Temporal) Distance
DESCRIPTION:with Dr. Emily Adlam \n\n\n\nSaturday February 25\, 2023 \n\n\n\n9:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nSince the discovery of Bell’s theorem\, the physics community has come to take seriously the possibility that the universe might contain physical processes which are spatially nonlocal\, but there has been no such revolution with regard to the possibility of temporally nonlocal processes. In this talk\, I will explore what temporal nonlocality might mean for physics. I will begin by arguing that temporal locality is incompatible with relativity and I will consider what kind of temporal nonlocality is suggested by relativistic considerations. I will introduce the temporal Bell inequalities\, and discuss how temporal nonlocality is related to retrocausality. Finally\, I will describe how accepting temporal nonlocality might change scientific explanations and open up new possibilities for research in physics. The talk will be followed by audience discussion of possible objections to temporal nonlocality and areas of science that might be affected by temporal nonlocality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmily Adlam is a postdoctoral associate at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy of Science\, associated with the University of Western Ontario. Adlam received her PhD in relativistic quantum information from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that she completed the Perimeter Scholar’s International programme in theoretical physics\, and she did her undergraduate degree in physics and philosophy at the Univeristy of Oxford. Adlam works on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related issues in the philosophy of physics. Adlam is particularly interested in approaches to physics which go beyond the time evolution paradigm – encompassing a range of possibilities like temporal non-locality\, retrocausality\, and all-at-once laws.  \n\n\n\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/dr-emily-adlam/
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SUMMARY:My Entanglement with Entanglement
DESCRIPTION:My Entanglement with Entanglement \n\n\n\nwith Prof. Basil J. Hiley \n\n\n\nSunday February 26\, 20239:00am PST | 12:00pm EST | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \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\nTo see the Full Entanglement program
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/prof-basil-j-hiley/
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