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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2
DESCRIPTION:August 2 – 24\, 20258 two-hour sessions \n\n\n\n9:00am PDT | 12:00pm EDT | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST \n\n\n\nAll sessions are live\, and include Q & A\, and all participants will receive the RECORDING.Each session: Full Price €15\, Member’s Discount €13.50Series tickets available. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2\n\n\n\nFollowing an illuminating introduction to Bohm’s revolutionary physics\, we embark on an exploration of potentiality and its intricate relationship with actuality\, drawing upon the insights of both Bohm and Charles Burton Martin; we will delve deeply into the terrain of panpsychism\, examining consciousness not as a mere biological phenomenon confined to humans and animals\, but as a fundamental architectural principle woven into the very fabric of physical reality; we investigate whether Bohmian quantum theory might inspire new forms of psycho-physical laws; we will examine the conception of ‘strict monism’ and its relation to Bohm’s ideas of undivided wholeness; we will illuminate Bohm’s distinctive philosophy of science as manifested in his causal interpretation of quantum theory; we will consider the implications of quantum materials on humanity’s evolutionary trajectory\, examining how these emerging technologies may fundamentally reshape our civilizational future; and we provide an introduction to a new worldview: the Dynamic Universe—a proposal that provides a new way of understanding relativistic phenomena. \n\n\n\nEvery session will have openings for question / answer and discussion with presenters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProgram of Event\n\n\n\nSaturday August 2Introduction to Bohm’s PhysicsJonathan AlldaySunday August 3Potentialities in Nature and the Nature of Potentialities: David Bohm’s 1951Quantum Theory and C. B. Martin’s Dispositionalist MetaphysicsAlex Carruth \n\n\n\nSaturday August 9The Impact of (Quantum) Materials on the Development of Humanity and of Shaping our FutureSaskia FischerSunday August 10On PanpsychismSanttu Heikkinen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 16The Dynamic Universe: A New Holistic World ViewTuomo Suntola \n\n\n\nSunday August 17 Consciousness\, Reduction and Quantum Psycho-Physical Laws  Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSaturday August 23Bohm’s Philosophy of Science in his Causal Interpretation of Quantum MechanicsMarja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila \n\n\n\nSunday August 24 Not Even One  William Seager \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeneral information\n\n\n\nAll sessions will last for approximately 2 hours\, and will be held over zoom.us. The session structure may vary from speaker to speaker\, but in general participants will have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenter and in some cases there will be breakaway discussion groups. 
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - Introduction to Bohm’s physics
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Bohm’s physics \n\n\n\nwith Jonathan Allday \n\n\n\nSaturday August 29:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Bohm’s work in physics spanned a range of areas and interests\, but he always came back to the foundations of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nWhile his 1952 hidden variables papers were not really about hidden variables (it’s in quotes in the paper tiles)\, they did start a direction of travel that he periodically revisited. The quantum potential offered a new way of illustrating the profound differences between classical and quantum physics as well as a means of exploring Bohm’s vision of underlying wholeness. \n\n\n\nThe 1952 papers also profoundly influenced John Bell\, who took up Bohm’s reworking of one of Einstein’s thought experiments to explore the nature of entanglement experimentally. That line led to the 2022 Nobel Prize. Without going into too much technical detail\, I will explain the underlying physics of the 1952 papers\, Bell’s theorem and its relationship to locality and entanglement\, and will work up to the advances Basil Hiley was making right up to his death. \n\n\n\nWe might even mention the Aharonov-Bohm effect and how weird that is… \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.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2-introduction-to-bohms-physics/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - Potentialities in Nature and the Nature of Potentialities
DESCRIPTION:Potentialities in Nature and the Nature of Potentialities: David Bohm’s 1951 Quantum Theory and C. B. Martin’s Dispositionalist Metaphysics \n\n\n\nwith Alex Carruth (and Paavo Pylkkänen) \n\n\n\nSunday August 39:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis talk explores the nature of potentiality and its relation to actuality through the views of David Bohm and Charles Burton Martin. \n\n\n\nBohm suggested in his 1951 textbook Quantum theory that quantum properties ought to be understood as potentialities that are actualized when they interact with a suitable\, classically describable system (such as a measuring apparatus\, but in principle any classically describable system\, for instance a crystal at the bottom of the sea). Central to Bohm’s view is a conception of potentialities as having three key features: they are incompletely defined; opposing and probabilistic. Furthermore\, the view implies that quantum theory presupposes the level of classical physics\, which raises questions about the completeness of quantum theory. \n\n\n\nInterestingly\, the dispositionalist metaphysics proposed by philosopher Charlie Martin has in some ways similar views about both the nature of potentialities and how they relate to manifest being\, opening up the possibility that the situation in quantum mechanics may be an example of a more general metaphysical principle. \n\n\n\nFirst\, Martin’s unorthodox view of dispositions as massively multi-track and as coming to manifest through reciprocal\, mutual partnerings seems to accommodate the three key features Bohm identifies in a way which neither orthodox views of dispositions nor non-dispositionalist views of properties can. \n\n\n\nFurthermore\, Martin rejects the notion of pure potentiality on the grounds that to move from potency to act\, some determinate\, manifest being is required (cf. Bohm’s classically describable system). A world of pure potentiality would be a world of ‘promissory notes’ which are never made good on. He also rejects the notion of pure manifest or actualised being\, on the grounds that being that is ‘in pure act’\, that is\, being that always manifests everything of which it is capable\, would actually amount to non-being (at least in the case of concrete\, material phenomena; perhaps abstract beings such as numbers might be in pure act). In Bohmian terms this is like the question whether the explicate order could exist without the implicate order. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex Carruth is a metaphysician\, philosopher of science and philosopher of mind. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Durham in 2013. Amongst other things\, he works on the nature of properties; emergence and reduction; causation; consciousness; mental causation\, and perception. He is currently a senior researcher at the University of Turku in the Research Council of Finland project Temporality in Predictive Processing and is the PI of the Kone Foundation project Navigating Complexity: Between Emergence and Reduction at the University of Helsinki.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2-potentialities-in-nature-and-the-nature-of-potentialities/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - The impact of (quantum) materials on the development of humanity and the shaping our future
DESCRIPTION:The impact of (quantum) materials on the development of humanity and the shaping our future \n\n\n\nwith Saskia F. Fischer \n\n\n\nSaturday August 99:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAt the start of the presentation three general premises will be offered: 1. All is process\, 2. We are part of nature and 3. Three world experiments are currently underway. During this talk we may explore how these premises relate to the making and usage of materials in the development of humanity. \n\n\n\nElectronic materials with a quest of high energy consumption are currently the basis for worldwide scientific\, technological and cultural developments. Mathematical principles of symmetry\, geometry and topology underlie the functionalities of the materials. At the nanoscale\, materials design is governed by what I call the inverse Bauhaus-principle: “Function follows form”. Examples of topical research are given. \n\n\n\nFinally\, in view of global challenges (third premise) I will ask: How can we develop science further? A key component will be to promote a universal interdisciplinary dialogue. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaskia F. Fischer is a German experimental physicist and professor at the Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin since 2010. She is leading the Novel Materials group and received the Helmholtz Prize for high-precision ‘Nanometrology’ with her team and partners in 2020. Saskia Fischer is known for her research work on novel electronic materials investigating how mathematical principles of symmetry\, geometry and topology influence flow of charge\, heat and spin. She frames the influence of geometry in material design at the nanoscale as the inverse Bauhaus principle: “Function follows form”. This allows to adapt material parameters such as thermal and thermo/-electrical conductivities for future applications in quantum\, nano and power electronics. Beyond her specific discipline\, her interests span from foundations of quantum physics to a development of universal interdisciplinary science in order to prepare for current and future global challenges. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.physik.hu-berlin.de/en/gnm-en/neue-materialien \n\n\n\nSelected publications of various research topics: \n\n\n\n\nIn-plane gate induced transition asymmetry of spin-resolved Landau levels in InAs-based quantum wells\, O. Chiatti\, J. Boy\, C. Heyn\, W. Hansen\, S. F. Fischer\, APL Mater. 12\, 051107 (2024). DOI: 10.1063/5.0203097\n\n\n\nNanometrology: Absolute Seebeck coefficient of individual silver nanowires\, M. Kockert\, D. Kojda\, R. Mitdank\, A. Mogilatenko\, Z. Wang\, J. Ruhhammer\, M. Kroener\, P. Woias\, and S. F. Fischer\, Scientific Reports 9\, 20265 (2019). DOI:10.1038/s41598-019-56602-9\n\n\n\n2D layered transport properties from topological insulator Bi2Se3 single crystals and micro flakes\, O. Chiatti\, C. Riha\, D. Lawrenz\, M. Busch\, S. Dusari\, J. Sánchez-Barriga\, A. Mogilatenko\, L. V. Yashina\, S. Valencia\, A. A. Ünal\, O. Rader\, and S. F. FischerSci. Rep. 6\, 27483 (2016). DOI:10.1038/srep27483\n\n\n\nEnergy spectroscopy of controlled coupled quantum-wire states\, S. F. Fischer\, G. Apetrii\, U. Kunze\, D. Schuh\, and G. Abstreiter\, Nature Physics 2\, 91-96 (2006). DOI: 10.1038/nphys205
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2-the-impact-of-quantum-materials-on-the-development-of-humanity-and-the-shaping-our-future/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - On Panpsychism
DESCRIPTION:On Panpsychism \n\n\n\nwith Santtu Heikkinen \n\n\n\nSunday August 109:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPanpsychism has emerged as a compelling perspective in contemporary philosophy of mind\, asserting that consciousness is not confined to humans and animals but is a fundamental feature of the physical world. The primary motivations for panpsychism include the continuity argument\, which seeks to address the apparent gap between mindless matter and conscious experience\, the argument from intrinsic natures\, which posits that consciousness is an intrinsic property of all entities\, and the conceivability argument\, which explores the possibility that consciousness could be a universal property in a way that is both metaphysically coherent and scientifically plausible. \n\n\n\nAs the theory evolves\, various strains of panpsychism have emerged\, notably smallist panpsychism\, which proposes that even the most fundamental entities possess rudimentary forms of consciousness\, and cosmopsychism\, which suggests that the universe itself might be the locus of consciousness. These variants offer differing solutions to the central issue in panpsychism: the combination problem\, which questions how simple\, fundamental consciousnesses combine to form the complex and integrated experiences found in higher beings. We will also explore how different formulations of panpsychism include references to different interpretations of quantum mechanics. \n\n\n\nIn response to panpsychism’s challenges\, alternatives such as idealism and neutral monism offer distinct metaphysical frameworks. Idealism suggests that the universe is fundamentally mental\, and that consciousness is the primary constituent of reality\, whereas neutral monism seeks a middle ground\, proposing that both mind and matter are aspects of a single\, more fundamental substance. Both offer solutions to the problems that panpsychism struggles with\, although they come with their own set of philosophical challenges. \n\n\n\nThis talk explores these key aspects of panpsychism\, providing a critical overview of its motivations\, varieties\, and the philosophical debates surrounding it\, while also examining the ways in which alternative theories attempt to address the same core issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSanttu Heikkinen is a junior researcher in philosophy at the University of Helsinki. His academic work has focused around alternatives to materialist metaphysics\, such as panpsychism and idealism. He has written a concise book on panpsychism and its core problems\, entitled “Panpsychism and the Combination Problem”. \n\n\n\nIn addition to his academic work\, Santtu has a decade of contemplative practice and has taught especially Buddhist practices and theory since 2020.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2-on-panpsychism/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 -The Dynamic Universe: a New Holistic World View
DESCRIPTION:The Dynamic Universe: a New Holistic World View \n\n\n\nwith Tuomo Suntola \n\n\n\nSaturday August 169:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Dynamic Universe (DU) offers an approach to understanding and predicting the natural world by describing three-dimensional space as the ‘surface’ of a 4-dimensional ball (which latter is called 3-sphere). This model provides a dynamic solution to the cosmological development of space and demonstrates that the relativity of observations stems from the overall energy balance in the system. Unlike the kinematics/metrics-based solutions of the theory of relativity\, the dynamics-based approach of DU allows the use of time and distance as universal coordinate quantities\, essential for human comprehension. \n\n\n\nDU’s foundation lies in the conservation law of energy within 3-sphere-space\, where the sum of the energies of motion and gravitation is zero. Analogous to a spherical pendulum\, mass in space gains its rest energy as the energy of motion against the release of gravitational energy during the contraction phase and returns this energy during the ongoing expansion phase. This presentation elucidates how the Dynamic Universe model simplifies current theoretical structures\, aims to align with quantum mechanics\, and provides a path toward a coherent and comprehensible scientific worldview without compromising the accuracy of predictions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTuomo Suntola\, PhD in Electron Physics (1971)\, has had a far-reaching academic and industrial career\, ranging from pioneering theoretical work to successful industrial applications. He is the father of the Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) technology\, an enabling technology for the production of nanoscale semiconductor devices. Alongside his industrial research\, he sought a holistic view of the physical reality — which crystalized in the mid-1990s into the Dynamic Universe approach. This allows the universe to be studied as a dynamic energy system\, with the energies of gravitation and motion in balance.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2-the-dynamic-universe-a-new-holistic-world-view/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - Consciousness\, Reduction and Quantum Psycho-Physical Laws
DESCRIPTION:Consciousness\, Reduction and Quantum Psycho-Physical Laws \n\n\n\nwith Paavo Pylkkänen \n\n\n\nSunday August 179:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDavid Chalmers (1996) proposed that because it does not seem likely that consciousness (understood as phenomenal properties) can be reduced to physical properties\, it is better to assume that phenomenal properties are fundamental and connected to fundamental physical properties by fundamental psycho-physical laws. While this proposal is interesting there is the problem that it leaves phenomenal properties causally inefficacious\, making the view a form of epiphenomenalism. In this talk an alternative approach is explored. This approach borrows from Chalmers the idea that information at least sometimes has both phenomenal and physical properties. It tries to avoid epiphenomenalism by making use of Bohm and Hiley’s ontological or ‘pilot wave’ interpretation of quantum theory where information is fundamental and causally efficacious and can be extended to include mental and conscious states. \n\n\n\n\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). https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/paavo-pylkkänen/publications/
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2-consciousness-reduction-and-quantum-psycho-physical-laws/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - Bohm’s philosophy of science in his Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
DESCRIPTION:Bohm’s philosophy of science in his Causal Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics \n\n\n\nwith Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila \n\n\n\nSaturday August 239:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe talk investigates David Bohm’s philosophy of science as a form of fallibilist realism that underpins his causal interpretation of quantum mechanics. Bohm’s central aim is to establish the superiority of his interpretation over the standard Copenhagen framework\, particularly in contrast to that of Niels Bohr. Whereas Bohr asserts that knowledge of quantum phenomena is restricted to the statistical outcomes of measurement\, Bohm’s approach is distinctly realist in orientation. Responding to the challenges posed by Einstein and other physicists\, Bohm relies on extra-empirical criteria such as determinism\, objectivity and intelligibility. \n\n\n\nThe talk develops what will be termed the methodology of intuitive intelligibility (‘II’)\, consisting of four stages: (1) reformulation of the standard quantum equations\, (2) physical interpretation of the mathematical symbols\, (3) drawing analogies with classical laws\, and (4) drawing analogies with common experience. It is argued that Bohm applies the (II) methodology consistently\, with the notable exception of the ontological status of the wave function and quantum potential. In attempting to explain causal relations from a 3N-dimensional configuration space (where N is the number of particles) to familiar three-dimensional space through an appeal to ‘information’\, Bohm arguably commits a category mistake. A proposed resolution—drawing on Bohm’s own holistic analogies—is supported by the recent multi-field interpretation (Romano 2021). \n\n\n\nThe term fallibilist realism aptly characterizes Bohm’s stance in the philosophy of science: he repeatedly emphasizes that the causal interpretation is not intended as a final theory. Nevertheless\, holism constitutes a substantive ontological commitment that he is unwilling to abandon. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarja-Liisa Kakkuri-Kuuttila has been professor of Philosophy of Management at the Aalto University Business School. She has taught courses in Philosophy of the Social Sciences and other philosophy courses for business students. She has worked on the dialogue method and philosophy of science in Aristotle and contemporary notions of dialogue. This interest has inspired her recently to investigate methodology and ontology in David Bohm’s and Basil Hiley’s causal interpretation of quantum mechanics.
URL:https://paricenter.com/event/beyond-bohm-2025-part-2-bohms-philosophy-of-science-in-his-causal-interpretation-of-quantum-mechanics/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Bohm 2025\, Part 2 - Not Even One
DESCRIPTION:Not Even One \n\n\n\nwith William Seager \n\n\n\nSunday August 249:00am PDT  | 12:00pm EDT  | 5:00pm BST  |  6:00pm CEST 2-hour session. \n\n\n\nThe session is live and you will be sent the RECORDING. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThere is a long tradition in thought and mysticism which holds that the world is\, somehow\, ONE. Here I survey the large variety of monisms to try to understand what the monistic claim really is. Following tradition and thinkers up to and including David Bohm\, one supreme form of monism keeps reappearing\, which I call ‘strict monism’. Strict monism makes the highly paradoxical claim that all differentiation\, diversity\, categorization and conceptualization is fundamentally misrepresentingreality. Despite the intuitive implausibility of this position\, a number of arguments point in its direction\, although – as befits the nature of strict monism – arguments themselves are part of the misrepresentation. \n\n\n\n\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).
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