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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass
DESCRIPTION:Beyond the Looking-Glass: Wholeness in Modern Science \n\n\n\nWith Jonathan Allday\, Vasileios Basios\, John Briggs\, Jeff Dunne\, Stuart Kauffman\, Katherine Peil Kauffman\, Paavo Pylkkänen. \n\n\n\nMarch 1 – 16\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\n6 two-hour sessions every Saturday and Sunday  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAn exploration of themes from the book Looking-Glass Universe by F. David Peat and John Briggs. \n\n\n\nLooking-Glass Universe takes a fascinating look at the wholeness revolution in physics\, mathematics\, chemistry\, biology and neurophysiology\, and the scientists whose converging theories are changing our understanding of how the universe works. The series will explore how far the themes of the book Looking-Glass Universe have developed since it was first published.  \n\n\n\nThe ‘looking-glass’ theories propose that we are at this very moment living in an Alice-in-Wonderland universe where each part is in fact the whole\, where scientists conducting an experiment are themselves the experiment\, and even inanimate objects contain consciousness. These theories give scientific meaning to the ancient mystical idea that the universe is One. \n\n\n\nLooking-Glass Universe by John Briggs and F. David Peat will be released in a new edition this year with physicist Jonathan Allday filling in readers on how science has evolved in the 40 years since the book first appeared. He reviews the progress towards a looking-glass view of the universe and updating aspects of the text in line with current scientific thinking. \n\n\n\nWe are pleased to announce that two of the authors\, John Briggs and Jonathan Allday\, will be presenting during this series. \n\n\n\nSessions\n\n\n\nLooking Glass UniverseWith Jonathan Allday and John BriggsSaturday March 1 \n\n\n\nDavid BohmWith Jonathan Allday and Paavo PylkkänenSunday March 2 \n\n\n\nObjectivity: The Mythical Border Between Science and ScientistsWith Jeff DunneSaturday March 8 \n\n\n\nEppur Si Muove! The Sudden–and persistent–Vortex of Ilya Prigogine and their descendantsWith Vasileios BasiosSunday March 9 \n\n\n\nHeisenberg’s Potentia: Toward a Theory of ConsciousnessWith Stuart KauffmanSaturday March 15 \n\n\n\nThe Tao of Emotional Sentience With Katherine Peil KauffmanSunday December 16
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - Looking-Glass Universe
DESCRIPTION:Looking Glass Universe \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday and John Briggs \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 1\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 1 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs and David Peat wrote Looking Glass Universe in the wake of publishing events such as The Tao of Physics. At the time\, physics was cool and popular\, especially among New Age adherents looking to science to provide a context for their beliefs. The authors wanted to take different approach—to show how a range of sciences\, not just physics\, were converging on a new way of viewing the world: as a whole. In this context\, they wanted to pose and answer the question: is a science of wholeness possible? \n\n\n\nNow that the book is about to be re-released\, it is interesting to review how things stood at the time\, with one of the original authors\, so that progress\, or lack of\, since then can but seen in context. \n\n\n\nThis will act as an introduction to the whole series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Briggs\, PhD\, taught for 25 years at Western Connecticut State University. He has taught aesthetics\, journalism\, and creative writing and served as co-chair of the English Department; he was one of the founders of the Department of Writing\, Linguistics and Creative Process and one of the principal developers of the MFA in Professional and Creative Writing. He is now Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Writing and Aesthetics at WCSU. Among his many publications are three books he co-authored with David Peat\, Looking Glass Universe(1984)\, Turbulent Mirror: An Illustrated Guide to Chaos Theory and the Science of Wholeness (1989)\, and Seven Life Lessons of Chaos (1999). He lives in the New England town of Granville\, Massachusetts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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 2020 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.
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - David Bohm
DESCRIPTION:David Bohm \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday and Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday\, March 2\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 2 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOne of the key scientists featured in the book Looking Glass Universe was David Bohm. One of the original authors\, David Peat\, was a friend and collaborator of Bohm. The philosopher\, Paavo Pylkkänen\, also knew Bohm and has worked on developments of his ideas.  \n\n\n\nIn this conversation\, we will discuss Bohm’s life\, his personality\, important aspects of his work and view of wholeness and how the work continues to be developed. Inevitably\, we will also talk about our mutual friend and Bohm collaborator\, Basil Hiley\, who died recently. \n\n\n\n\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 2020 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. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaavo Pylkkänen\, PhD\, 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.  \n\n\n\nPaavo 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). 
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - Objectivity: The Mythical Border Between Science and Scientists
DESCRIPTION:Objectivity: The Mythical Border Between Science and Scientists \n\n\n\nwith Jeffrey Dunne \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 8\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 3 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe premise of modern science is that it focuses on studying objective aspects of reality. It is on this basis that the scientific community claims that science is a sieve for fundamental ‘truth\,’ i.e. establishing fact and weeding out subjective opinion. What has been forgotten along the way over the past few centuries is that the concept of the ‘objective’ is itself subjective. To wit\, the measure of objectivity is consensus\, i.e. things upon which the majority of people agree are considered ‘objectively true\,’ with the remaining perspectives treated as ‘subjective\,’ or even ‘subjectively biased.’ As a consequence\, the defining of ‘objective truth’ and ‘objective reality’ is actually a process of sharpening the delineation between what is considered acceptable observations and experiences versus those which are rare and consequently shunned\, even to the point of calling them false and claiming the people who have them must be either lying or insane. Yet uncommon experiences\, whether one calls them anomalous or denies them entirely\, continue to occur\, and the body of documented evidence of their legitimacy is now overwhelming. If we are to move science forward—in fact\, if we are to recover from the growing disfunction of a global society being told that people are nothing more than biological computers—we must open the aperture of what phenomena are deemed worthy of scientific study and recognize that the distinction between the objective and the subjective is nothing more than an arbitrary line in the sands of statistics. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jeffrey Dunne is President of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL\, www.icrl.org)\, an organization dedicated to understanding the nature of consciousness for the betterment of humanity.  Beyond his work with ICRL and several decades of research at the Johns Hopkins University in fields ranging from acoustics to data science and AI\, Dr. Dunne is an award-winning playwright and author.  His recently published novel\, Nexus\, weaves the concept of syntropy with the implications of the nature of consciousness into a story that speaks to the challenges humanity is facing\, sharing a vision for finding a healthier\, more balanced future.
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - Eppur Si Muove! The Sudden -and persistent- Vortex of Ilya Prigogine and their descendants
DESCRIPTION:Eppur Si Muove! The Sudden–and persistent–Vortex of Ilya Prigogine and their descendants \n\n\n\nwith Vasileios Basios \n\n\n\nSunday\, March 9\, 20259am PST / 12pm EST / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 4 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSince Ilya Prigogine’s ‘sudden Vortex’ was reflected in the ‘Looking Glass Universe\,’ complexity theory has advanced by leaps and bounds. From a marginal theory in the corners of physics\, it has become the cornerstone of many advanced new sciences.  \n\n\n\nFrom physics\, physical chemistry\, biological systems and ecology to social networks and leadership in organisations\, the very ideas he developed and put into practice—emergence\, entropy\, self-organisation\, spontaneous symmetry breaking\, bifurcations and chaos—are today’s bread and butter and central. The focus has shifted towards understanding how order and chaos lead to new structures and behaviours at higher levels of complexity\, adaptivity and extended domains. We now know that Life is unpredictable\, but not an accident. It cannot emerge from total randomness\, nor can intelligence and consciousness. \n\n\n\n We need to establish a new discipline: self-reflexive interdisciplinary studies of consciousness. Such studies will empower science by extending it beyond naive reductionism and to become more useful in exploring reality\, both within and without. It will also empower society to shed more light on the root causes of some of its major problems\, including suggestions on how best to deal with them. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Vasileios Basios is a senior researcher in the Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Brussels\, with over 25 years of experience in research and coaching. His interdisciplinary work focuses on self-organisation\, emergence in complex matter\, complementarity and the foundations of complex systems. \n\n\n\nMentored by Nobel laureates Ilya Prigogine and Grégoire Nicolis\, Dr Basios received his Ph.D. from the University of Brussels after studying cybernetics with John S. Nicolis. His research interests include foundations of complexity science\, emergence in complex matter\, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in biological information processing\, computability and the logic of extended Bayesian inference. Dr Basios has participated in several research initiatives\, including the European Space Agency’s Complex Matter programme and EU projects such as Pythagoras I&II and Thales I&II.  \n\n\n\nHe is deeply interested in the history of scientific ideas and their role in transforming science beyond the mechanistic worldview. His work aims to bring insights from complex systems science to consciousness studies\, working towards an inclusive and self-reflexive interdisciplinary science of consciousness. In 2023\, his research team received the inaugural Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize for their study on detecting deviations from random activity as indicators of nonlocal consciousness correlates beyond the brain. \n\n\n\nDr Basios serves in various capacities\, including as a speaker for the Scientific & Medical Network after a period as its co-Chair and board member\, as a member of the Galileo Commission Steering Team\, and as a Trustee of the International Consciousness Research Laboratories (ICRL). By contributing to complexity and consciousness research in a variety of formats\, from podcasts to books to peer-reviewed papers\, he aspires to advance knowledge in this evolving field.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-the-looking-glass-eppur-si-muove-the-sudden-and-persistent-vortex-of-ilya-prigogine-and-their-descendants/
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SUMMARY:The Future World - A Conversation with Carissa Véliz
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6DOEIowrG4\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA Conversation between Carissa Véliz and Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWednesday\, March 1210:00am PDT  | 1:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm GMT  |  6:00pm CET  \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE and FREE. All registered participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarissa Véliz is an Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Institute for Ethics in AI\, and a Fellow at Hertford College at the University of Oxford. She is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert A. Simon Award for Outstanding Research in Computing and Philosophy. She is the author of the highly-acclaimed Privacy Is Power (an Economist book of the year\, 2020) and the editor of the Oxford Handbook of Digital Ethics. She is a member of UNESCO’s Women 4 Ethical AI. She advises companies and policymakers around the world on privacy and the ethics of AI. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/the-future-world-a-conversation-with-carissa-veliz/
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - Heisenberg’s Potentia: Toward a Theory of Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Heisenberg’s Potentia: Toward a Theory of Consciousness \n\n\n\nwith Stuart Kauffman \n\n\n\nSaturday\, March 15\, 202510am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 5 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWerner Heisenberg in 1958 proposed that quantum states are ‘potentia standing ghost-like between a dream and reality.’  The proposal of ontologically real potentia not obeying Aristotle’s Laws of the Excluded Middle and Non-Contradiction provides an interpretation of superpositions and answers the six mysteries of Quantum Mechanics. This suggest that potentia are real and that quantum measurement converts Possibles to Actuals.  \n\n\n\nRadin’s work with colleagues is evidence at 6.49 sigma that mind can play a role in collapse of the wave function—the conversion of Possibles to Actuals. Qualia are never in superposition. These facts suggest that conscious qualia arise upon mind’s conversion of Possibles to Actuals.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Kauffman is an American medical doctor\, theoretical biologist\, and complex systems  researcher who studies the origin of life on Earth. He was a professor at the University of Chicago\, University of Pennsylvania\, and Universitry of Calgary. He is currently emeritus professor of biochemistry at the University of Pennsylvania and affiliate faculty at the Institute of Systems Biology. He has a number of awards including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Wiener Medal. He is best known for arguing that the complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from delf-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection\, as discussed in his book Origins of Order (1993). \n\n\n\n He has published over 350 articles and 6 books: The Origins of Order (1993)\, At Home in the Universe (1995)\, Investigations (2000)\, Reinventing the Sacred (2008)\, Humanity in a Creative Universe (2016)\, and A World Beyond Physics (2019). \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, exploring the concept that reality consists of both ontologically real ‘possibles’ (res potentia) and ontologically real ‘actuals’ (res extensa)\, Kauffman co-authored\, with Ruth Kastner and Michael Epperson\, ‘Taking Heisenberg’s Potentia Seriously.’
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SUMMARY:Beyond the Looking-Glass - The Tao of Emotional Sentience
DESCRIPTION:The Tao of Emotional Sentience \n\n\n\nwith Katherine Peil Kauffman \n\n\n\nSunday\, March 16\, 202510am PDT / 1pm EDT / 5pm GMT / 6pm CET \n\n\n\nBeyond the Looking-Glass\, Session 6 of 6 \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE. All participants will receive the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuilding upon Bohmian (and Kauffmanian) physics\, the Eastern metaphor of The Tao is employed to introduce the new emotion science. In this context\, emotional sentience—from its simple binary evaluations to its complex informational content—is not only central to the ‘self-regulatory’ behavioral hardware and learning software of living systems but may be integral to the in-forming and trans-forming process of reality creation itself. To distinguish emotion as a separate and more ancient system than ‘cognition’ proper\, is to honor the ‘agent in the machine\,’ to discover the untold wonders embodied in the physical organism\, and to reclaim the divine attributes of human being and becoming. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKatherine T. Peil Kauffman is the founding Director of non-profit EFS International\, whose mission is fostering global emotional wisdom. From a background in Pantheistic spirituality and clinical and social psychology\, her lengthy interdisciplinary inquiry into the biophysical substrates of emotion led to the identification of its previously mysterious biological function: as an ancient ‘self-regulatory sense’—an evaluative perceptual mechanism through which living systems directly participate in self-organizing and evolutionary processes\, and one that invites deeper inquiries into the physics of consciousness. This new science also casts light upon innate ‘biovalues\,’ which scientific methodology has long avoided\, as well as vital processes that in-form common spiritual experiences\, and the healthy development of empathic moral conscience. It provides a biophysically informed vision of ‘naturalistic spiritualty\,’ one that echoes the common wisdom across the great religious traditions\, while challenging such time honored assumptions as ‘sin’ and the ‘good and evil’ dichotomy.A former affiliate of Northeastern University and the Harvard Divinity School\, Ms. Kauffman has spoken internationally on the function\, evolution\, physio-chemical\, and informational nature of emotion\, as well as its central role in optimal health\, human development\, moral reasoning\, universal spiritual experiences\, and its informative value toward creating nonviolence in a global village.
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SUMMARY:Edge of Belief: Faith\, Imagination\, and Science
DESCRIPTION:Watch the recording\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCqy4UxmY88\n\n\n\n\n\nDonate to the Pari Center\n\n\n\nWe could not exist without the generosity of our supporters\, sponsors and friends. Donate even a small amount\, to help support us financially and enable us to continue our work. \n\n\n\nBy clicking on the Donate button\, you will be taken to the payment screen. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEdge of Belief: Faith\, Imagination\, and Science \n\n\n\nSunday March 23\, 2025 \n\n\n\nStarting at 12:30pm PDT  | 3:30pm EDT  | 7:30pm GMT  |  8:30pm CET \n\n\n\nCurated and chaired by: Àlex Gómez-Marín \n\n\n\nWith Robert Duncan and Brett Robinson \n\n\n\nThis event is LIVE online and FREE. All registered participants will receive the recording. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScience can explain many things about reality but the addition of theology\, literature\, and art deepens our understanding and makes for a much richer appreciation of life on this weird and wonderful planet. How can Religion respond to evolving scientific discoveries? How should the Church think about UFOs? What are the boundaries for Catholic belief? The McGrath Institute for Church Life is proud to present “Edge of Belief: UFOs\, Technology & The Catholic Imagination”\, a documentary short that explores the outer limits of belief. \n\n\n\n“The Edge of Belief” is a documentary film about the interplay of faith\, imagination and science. The film looks at the modern UFO phenomenon through the lens of the Catholic theological\, scientific and literary tradition. This impactful documentary gives viewers a holistic framework for thinking about the mysteries of the universe and dealing with the claims that we are not alone in it. “The Edge of Belief” features interviews with CS Lewis scholar and Oxford professor Michael Ward\, religious studies researcher and author of American Cosmic\, Diana Pasulka\, icon artist and host of “The Symbolic World\,” Jonathan Pageau\, Notre Dame theologian Christopher Baglow\, and Chair of Astronomy at Cornell\, Jonathan Lunine\, among others. \n\n\n\nLink to the film (31 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA0ah6Xmqus \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n08:30pm CET – Introduction \n\n\n\n08:45pm CET – Live film watch \n\n\n\n09:15pm CET – Conversation between Robert\, Brett\, and Alex  \n\n\n\n10:00pm CET – Q&A from the audience \n\n\n\n10:30pm CET – End \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobert Duncan\, a native of North Carolina\, is a filmmaker and communications professional who has spent over a decade producing documentaries and news videos on the Vatican and Catholic life in Rome. He has worked extensively as a journalist covering Vatican affairs and as a communications consultant for various non-profit religious organizations\, particularly in the areas of fundraising and strategic media. Robert graduated from NYU’s film program and has consulted for the U.S. State Department\, creating media for the U.S. embassies in Rome. He has lectured on communication strategy for Vatican employees and assisted with media projects for Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. Robert lives near Rome with his family\, enjoying hiking and sailing.  \n\n\n\nBrett Robinson\, Executive Producer Brett Robinson serves as the Associate Director for Outreach and Associate Professor of the Practice at the McGrath Institute for Church Life. In his role\, he oversees outreach efforts for the institute while conducting research at the intersection of religion\, technology and culture. Brett studied marketing and English at the University of Notre Dame and received his Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Georgia. He has taught media studies courses at Duquesne University\, the University of Georgia\, Saint Vincent College and Notre Dame. Brett is the author of Appletopia: Media Technology and the Religious Imagination of Steve Jobs and his essays and commentary on technology and culture have been featured in Wired Magazine\, CNN\, the LA Times and Catholic News Service. \n\n\n\nÀlex Gómez-Marín\, theoretical physicist turned neuroscientist studying the edges of consciousness in the real world. He is an associate professor at the Instituto de Neurociencias in Alicante\, Spain\, and director of the Pari Center in Tuscany\, Italy. 
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