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Synopsis
● Philosophy -- Philosophy of Abstraction. Ontological/Epistemological distinction. Thought
vs Reality. Generalization vs Contextuality.
● Theoretical Physics: Space, Time, Dimension, Force, Wave Functions, Operators, Fields,
Strings etc., Are they real? Transition/Correspondence between theories and reality. Various
tangled loops and circular definitions at the foundations of Science.
● Mathematics: Magnitude -- Number, Sets, Classes, Functions, Abstract mathematical
structures/objects, Platonism and various schools of thought.
● Information Theory/ Computing/Logic: Information is everything. Aspects of computability
and undecidability in our very map (Theories and Constructs) and how far they leak into the
territory (reality).
● Biology/Cognitive Science: Perception -- how our map of the territory and thereby the very
territory itself is fenced by the evolution. Brain/Mind and the extent they let us patch the
reality with percepts. Map and Territory, an illusion? From a cognitive viewpoint.
List of authors who have accepted: (* = tentative)
ˇ Ian Stewart, University of Warwick, England.
ˇ William G Unruh, University of British Columbia, Canada.
ˇ Gregory Chaitin, IBM and his wife Virginia Chaitin.
ˇ Simon Saunders (*), Oxford University, Oxford.
ˇ Simon Kochen(*), Princeton University.
ˇ Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of physics at Dartmouth.ˇ José Acacio de Barros, Associate professor at San Francisco State.
ˇ Tian Yu Cao, Boston University.
ˇ David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute.
ˇ Vlatko Vedral, University of Oxford.ˇ Edward Slowik, Winona State University, USA. <
ˇ Steven Weinstein, University of Waterloo.
ˇ Eors Szathmary, Munich and Eötvös University.
ˇ Barry Dainton, University of Liverpool.ˇ John Searle (*), University of California.
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