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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2023
DESCRIPTION:Beyond Bohm 2023: Part 1 – Changing Meaning / Changing Being\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2023: Part 2: Science 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\nBeyond Bohm 2023: Part 1 – Changing Meaning / Changing Being \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by Lee Nichol \n\n\n\nJuly 16 – 30\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nNow in its third year\, Beyond Bohm aims to use multiple aspects of David Bohm’s work as jumping-off points for ongoing inquiry and experiential probings. We are especially happy with this year’s offerings\, and are honored to have more than 30 guest participants for Part 1 (July 16 – 30). \n\n\n\nOur first weekend will open up significant new territory while exploring perennial questions regarding meaning\, consciousness\, dialogue\, and the nature of experience. While organicism\, panpsychism\, and temporal flux are marbled throughout the work of David Bohm\, further perspectives – particularly those of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead – are brought to bear in our opening session. The following day\, Dr. Rupert Sheldrake brings his own unique perspective to some of these process-oriented questions\, asking\, “Is the Sun Conscious?” \n\n\n\nOur second weekend puts forth multiple perspectives regarding Bohm’s proposals about holoflux and holomovement. These concepts – and what they imply – are foundational for any experiential sense of Bohm’s overall metaphysics. The various perspectives shared across two sessions draw from years of experimentation with the relevance of this aspect of Bohm’s work\, within the actual movement of daily life. \n\n\n\nOur third weekend is a bounty of dialogue. The group of ten women partaking in the Saturday session collectively bring hundreds of years of experience with various dialogical modes. The following day\, Blackfoot elder Leroy Little Bear and multiple guests will once again share with us Leroy’s unique approach to dialogue\, rooted in indigenous world views and sensibilities. \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSunday July 16Bohm/Bergson/Whitehead: Life as Movementwith Àlex Gómez-Marin\, Lee Nichol\, Hester Reeve \n\n\n\nMonday July 17Is the Sun Conscious?with Rupert Sheldrake \n\n\n\nSaturday July 22Holoflux: The Qualitative Infinity of Naturewith Lee Nichol\, Cheryl Brant\, Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSunday July 23Holoflux: Codexwith Richard Burg\, Eva Casey\, Sky Hoorne\, Maria Hvidbak\, Beth Macy\, Hester Reeve\, Aja Bulla Zamastil \n\n\n\nSaturday July 29The Heart of DialogueDialogue with Jessica Ball\, Trine-Line Biong\, Eva Casey\, Anna Factor\, Sally Jeffery\, Beth Macy\, Marie-Eve Marchand\, Melissa Nelson\, Marjorie Parker\, Susanna Ruebsaat \n\n\n\nSunday July 30The Hidden Science: What Western Science Metrics Don’t Know – And Can’t KnowIndigenous Dialogue with Leroy Little Bear and Jeannette Armstrong\, Greg Cajete\, Marie-Eve Marchant\, Kent Monkman\, Melissa Nelson\, Lee Nichol \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2023: Part 2 -Science and Philosophy \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday\, Jens Allwood\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, Michael Richter\, William Seager\, David Schrum\, Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nAugust 5 – 6\, 12 – 13\, 26 – 27\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n6-two-hour sessions \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2023 Part two focuses on scientific and philosophical themes.  After an introduction to Bohm’s physics\, the topics include pluralism in science and the relation between Bohm and Paul Feyerabend; the role of mind and consciousness in Bohm’s interpretation of quantum mechanics and in Hugh Everett’s “many worlds” theory; Bohm’s view of the self and the observer; Bohm’s notion of an order between and beyond; and Bohm’s process-oriented view of language. \n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 5Introduction to Bohm’s Physicswith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSunday August 6Bohm’s Views on Pluralism in Science and the Relation between Bohm and Paul Feyerabendwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nSaturday August 12Maverick Minds: Bohm and Everett on Mind & Consciousnesswith William Seager \n\n\n\nSunday August 13Bohm’s View of the Self and the Observerwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 26David Bohm and an Order Between and Beyond:Toward a New Mind and a New Human Beingwith David Schrum
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2023-2/
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SUMMARY:Introduction to Bohm’s Physics
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Bohm’s Physics \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday August 5\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm 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 made very important contributions to a range of different areas in physics. Amongst these\, his work on quantum theory is possibly the most relevant to Pari discussions. In this talk I will attempt to outline Bohm’s ontological interpretation of quantum theory\, which has since been developed by Basil Hiley amongst others. I will also discuss Bohm’s development of the Einstein-Podalsky-Rosen (EPR paradox) paper which led to John Bell’s work and our current understanding of entanglement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond 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/introduction-to-bohms-physics/
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SUMMARY:Bohm's Views on Pluralism in Science and the Relation Between Bohm and Paul Feyerabend
DESCRIPTION:Bohm’s Views on Pluralism in Science and the Relation Between Bohm and Paul Feyerabend \n\n\n\nwith Marij van Strien \n\n\n\nChaired by Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 6\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nQuantum mechanics is often regarded as an important case for pluralism in science\, as the theory allows for a plurality of interpretations. This talk shows that scientific pluralism is also historically connected to quantum mechanics: in particular\, the philosopher of science\, Paul Feyerabend developed his arguments for pluralism in the context of debates on quantum mechanics and in conversation with David Bohm. \n\n\n\nIn 1952\, Bohm published an alternative interpretation of quantum mechanics\, demonstrating the possibility of non-standard interpretations. Bohm himself regarded this interpretation merely as a starting point for a more thorough rethinking of the foundations of quantum physics\, and argued that what was needed was the development of new concepts\, which could form the basis for a genuinely new theory yielding new predictions. In this context\, Bohm developed general arguments for pluralism in science: he argued that to avoid being trapped within a conceptual scheme\, scientists should always actively try to develop alternatives to current theories. In 1957\, Feyerabend and Bohm became colleagues in Bristol\, where they regularly discussed physics and philosophy. Bohm had a large influence on the development of Feyerabend’s pluralistic philosophy of science: Feyerabend in fact attributed one of his main arguments for pluralism to Bohm. Feyerabend saw pluralism as particularly urgent in quantum physics: in his perception\, Bohm’s alternative account of quantum physics was dogmatically rejected by the community of quantum physicists. \n\n\n\nHowever\, as Feyerabend’s understanding of the complexities of quantum physics and its historical development grew\, his criticism of the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics gradually became weaker\, and his views on pluralism changed: whereas pluralism remained an important virtue for Feyerabend\, he no longer thought that it should be imposed on science as a methodological requirement. Meanwhile\, Bohm’s attempts to develop a new conceptual framework for quantum physics remained largely unsuccessful\, and from the late 1970s\, he returned to his original interpretation from 1952. This interpretation has become increasingly popular\, but it is not the genuinely new theory which Bohm envisioned: it largely uses classical concepts and has not yielded new predictions. Despite the plurality of interpretations of quantum mechanics which one can find nowadays\, it is hard to find one which presents a new theoretical framework of the kind Bohm and Feyerabend envisioned. It thus seems that the pluralism for which Feyerabend and Bohm argued turned out to be hard to realize in practice. \n\n\n\n\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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/bohms-views-on-pluralism-in-science-and-the-relation-between-bohm-and-paul-feyerabend/
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SUMMARY:Maverick Minds: Bohm and Everett on Mind and Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Maverick Minds: Bohm and Everett on Mind and Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith William Seager \n\n\n\nSaturday August 12\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm 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 and Hugh Everett were both mavericks in physics\,  bucking the Copenhagen trend (which was exceptionally  powerful during their formative years and long after). They each developed a surprising and novel interpretation  of quantum mechanics\, which shared some features but were  also radically dissimilar\, almost as dissimilar as their  personalities and outlook on life. Their views have been much  discussed\, but less has been said of the place of mind  and consciousness within their interpretations. Bohm wrote  more explicitly about this\, but Everett said very little about  the nature of mind. Here\, I want to explore their views\, to outline Bohm’s approach to the mind and to see how mind can  be integrated with the so-called Many-Worlds interpretation we owe to Everett. \n\n\n\n\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/maverick-minds-bohm-and-everett-on-mind-and-consciousness/
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SUMMARY:Bohm’s View of the Self and the Observer
DESCRIPTION:Bohm’s View of the Self and the Observer \n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 13\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm 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 talk considers Bohm’s view of the self and the observer in the light of the recently published Bohm’s letters to Jeffrey Bub. (C. Talbot ed. (2020) David Bohm’s Critique of Modern Physics. Letters to Jeffrey Bub\, 1966-1969. Cham: Springer).  Bohm’s view is influenced on the one hand by the situation in quantum physics\, where the role of the observer is an important topic.  But there are also influences from his discussions with Krishnamurti. According to Bohm the plain fact in the mental domain is that observation is going on\, but there is no separate observer inside the mind\, who would be “doing the looking”.  Is this view plausible and consistent\, and how does it relate to other contemporary views of the self? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\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/
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/bohms-view-of-the-self-and-the-observer/
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SUMMARY:The Future Human - A Conversation with Mauro Biglino
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXtyPeSbULM\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Mauro Biglino and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday August 239:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \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 guest\, the session 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\n\n\n\n\nThe eighth conversation in this series will be on Wednesday August 23\, 2023 with Mauro Biglino. Our conversation will orbit around “the literal translation of the Bible and the oldest secret in history”. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMauro Biglino is an Italian biblical scholar\, translator\, popularizer and best-selling author for Mondadori\, one of the major publishing houses in Italy. During his career\, Biglino has directed and supervised the translation and publication of 17 books of the Old Testament for Edizioni San Paolo\, Italy’s main Catholic publisher. Mauro’s books take the reader by the hand and – free of any preconceptions or theological filters – accompany them through a fascinating narration of biblical verses\, which are analysed in their original form in ancient Hebrew.” \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-mauro-biglino/
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SUMMARY:David Bohm and An Order Between and Beyond
DESCRIPTION:David Bohm and An Order Between and Beyond: Toward a New Human Being and a New Culture\n\n\n\nwith David Schrum \n\n\n\nand guests Steven Rosen and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 26\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm 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 was a physicist and an explorer of mind who probed deeply the question of what might bring about a transformation of consciousness in the individual and in society as a whole. Such a renaissance he perceived could arise as humanity awakened to what he termed orders between and beyond\, new orders of cognition within which thought would operate in a movement subtle and creative. One approach that he brought to opening this understanding to others was to bring attention to how new orders of perception may be formed by bringing together and transcending orders already present. \n\n\n\nWe will look into several such transformations of order to develop a feeling for this\, following which we will focus on the ubiquitous orders of understanding which Bohm terms ‘literal’ thought and ‘participatory’ thought. The processes involved in these two sorts of comprehension\, we nowadays recognize as corresponding respectively to left hemisphere- and right hemisphere-dominated activities of the brain. Considering these orders brings out David Bohm’s approach to exploration of consciousness\, and it opens into his perception of truth as a process. This latter view brings questions as to its possible relevance to metaphysics and to cognitive science. \n\n\n\nWe will explore what it is to enter into these issues not only conceptually but also in movements subtle beyond words\, as it is in the liminal region beyond the poles of concepts on one hand and felt movement on the other\, that we may participate in a vital order between. \n\n\n\nAfter the presentation\, a roundtable discussion with Paavo Pylkkanen\, Steven M. Rosen\, and David Schrum will consider these issues. This will be followed and continued by participation of the group as a whole. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSteven M. Rosen is Emeritus Professor of Psychology at the College of Staten Island of the City University of New York. After receiving his Ph.D. in psychology from the City University in 1971\, he began exploring the foundations\, frontiers\, and poetics of science\, his work becoming transdisciplinary and philosophical in nature. Rosen’s essays have appeared in journals and collections spanning the fields of philosophy\, psychology\, theoretical physics\, education\, semiotics\, and ecology. His published books include Science\, Paradox\, and the Moebius Principle (1994)\, Dimensions of Apeiron (2004)\, Topologies of the Flesh (2006)\, and The Self-Evolving Cosmos (2008). Rosen’s website is embodyingcyberspace.com. \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:Bohm and Language
DESCRIPTION:Bohm and Language \n\n\n\nwith Jens Allwood\, Michael Richter and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 27\, 20239:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\n2-hour session \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\nThere was “a linguistic turn” in Bohm’s thinking\, particularly as a result of interaction with Donald Schumacher.  Among other things this led Bohm to propose a new language mode\, the rheomode which gives the verb a central role in language structure.  In this session Bohm’s proposals will be considered and critically examined. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTo see the Full Beyond Bohm Program\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJens Allwood is professor of Linguistics at the University Gothenburg. He is also professor of communication studies at Strömstad Academy. He is born in Moline\, Illinois\, USA in 1947. He is active as a researcher and professor emeritus in projects at the University of Gothenburg and in the Company Communication Development J.A. & E.A. HB. He is the director of Marston Hill Intercultural Center for Quality of Life\, chairman of the board of the Immigrant Institute and editor in chief of the Journal of Intercultural Communication (on-line\, open access). He has worked as researcher and teacher in linguistics\, specialized in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, multimodal communication and intercultural communication. He has coordinated and participated in a large number of national and international research project in semantics\, pragmatics\, corpus linguistics\, studies of spoken language\, multimodal communication\, intercultural communication and development of research and research education. He has been the chairman of the department of linguistics\, section manager of the Interdisciplinary center SCCIIL (semantics\, cognition\, communication\, information\, interaction). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Richter is a Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science at Leipzig University (Department of Natural Language Processing)\, and at the Institute of Applied Computer Science (InfAI) in Leipzig. His fields of research include Models of Communication in natural language; information theory;corpus linguistics\, lexical semantics; text mining; application of information theory in digital humanities; andsyntax models of natural language. \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:Seizing the Underlying Unity of Science\, the Arts and the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Dates: August 29 – September 5\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSpeakers: Mary Attwood\, John Cleese (via Zoom)\, John Krakauer\, Mervat Nasser\, Melissa Nelson\, John Pickering\, Jordi Pigem\, Mark Vernon \n\n\n\nCurated and Chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nLocation: Pari\, Italy \n\n\n\nPrice: 1995.00 euros \n\n\n\nwhich includes: \n\n\n\n\na 7-night stay in private accommodation;\n\n\n\nbreakfast\, lunch and dinner at the local restaurant featuring locally sourced produce and traditional dishes;\n\n\n\nthe water\, wine\, and coffee provided with meals;\n\n\n\nprogrammed activities and materials;\n\n\n\nrefreshments provided at mid-morning and mid-afternoon coffee breaks.\n\n\n\n\nEvent: The event starts on Tuesday August 29 at 19:00 with a welcome dinner and ends on Tuesday September 5 after lunch. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Event: \n\n\n\nThere was a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. This initial vision was lost\, leading to a bifurcation of nature that has impeded human flourishing. In the medieval hilltop of a Tuscan town\, we will seek to explore and experience the underlying wholeness that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind\, and the sense of the sacred. \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 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\nThe 20th century composer of devotional music\, John Tavener\, has written of the “one simple memory\,” a deeply buried sense of a time when understanding was unified and spoke to our inner wholeness. In that period the artisan\, miner\, metal worker and artist alike were considered as the midwives to nature\, aiding her in her striving to perfection. The physicist Wolfgang Pauli believed that this sprit was still alive in the 17th century when the quantitative science of Kepler and Galileo coexisted with a more deeply symbolic approach to nature and matter—each complementing the other. This later vanished in the hands of the followers of Descartes and Newton and\, for Wolfgang Pauli\, the ‘spirit in matter’ was banished for over two hundred years. Particularly in the twentieth century\, physics (and subsequently other major disciplines\, mirroring themselves in it) had lost its initial vision and become obsessed with a “will to power” as it sought control over nature. A “bifurcation of nature” —the harsh separation of reality as conceived by science and as experienced by humans (including scientists) —\, in the words of mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead\, is one of the greatest fallacies of modernity and a major impediment to human flourishing. However\, a “resurrection” of spirit within matter may be at hand today. Such wholeness can be explored in the medieval hilltop town of Pari\, Tuscany\, for in the Middle Ages nature\, beauty and the sacred were seen as one. The presenters and participants who come to Pari will bring together many skills to the discussions on the relationship of religious ritual to sacred theatre; of brain activity to the orders of music and mathematics; the ultimate nature of reality as seen from these various disciplines; limitations to knowing\, and questions of the origin of the universe. Topics move towards questions that stretch the limits and boundaries that are currently placed around science\, the sacred and the arts. We will discuss\, and hopefully experience\, the underlying unity that was initially present in the spirit of the arts\, the scientific mind and the spiritual quest. We shall seek to “re-member” such one simple memory — indeed\, we have taken as our maxim a quotation from Carlo Levi “The future has an ancient heart.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresentations\n\n\n\nThe Art of Seeing: Rediscovering the Four Senses HermeneuticMary Attwood \n\n\n\nThe Humanities as an Emergent Level of ExplanationJohn Krakauer \n\n\n\nThe Return of Hermopolis as Healing MemoryMervat Nassar \n\n\n\nThe Journey is the Goal and Beauty is our Guide John Pickering \n\n\n\nTowards a Postmaterialistic Worldview: Contributions from Contemporary Science and Eastern and Western PhilosophyJordi Pigem \n\n\n\nDante\, Blake and the Revelation of UnityMark Vernon \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nInformation\n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the event – the pdf \n\n\n\nAdditional Information about the Pari Center – the pdf \n\n\n\nTerms and Conditions – the pdf
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