As an initiatory demonstration of the power of Dialogue for Science, the Center is applying a Dialogical process to the Science of Consciousness, engaging physics, neuroscience, psychology, and philosophy in a rigorous conversation. Outputs from this project include Papers , Videos, and Books. The ongoing Process includes Working Groups and Workshops (below). To get involved or to support this work, please get in touch.
Getting the One, Done
If local reality is dynamically-conventional, then modern science acquires the sorts of contingency and uncertainty asserted by reasonable postmodern critiques. But if it is dynamically-unconventional, then science can safely take past accomplishments forward, into new and expansive territory. (See: From Godel to Trump.)
Thus, the actual dynamical character of local reality is science’s most pressing issue. This workshop will explore ‘the One Experiment’, which can in principle determine that character. Ideally, we will leave this event with a concrete, feasible, project plan, for ‘Getting the One, Done’.
Tentative Timeline: Q3, 2024
For technical details on dynamic un/conventionality, implications for science as a whole, and the One Experiment, please see the book ‘From Godel to Trump’, and/or the papers ‘True Consciousness Science’ and ‘One Experiment’. To register interest, please get in touch.
Godel-Hamilton-Riemann
In principle, the One Experiment can resolve problems for science arising from Godel-like theorems for the dynamically-conventional biophysics of conscious experience. (See Part 1 of ‘From Godel to Trump’.) However, the formulation of the Godelian parallels points beyond immediate experimental resolution, to a potential convergence of the frontiers of pure mathematics, of empirical biophysics, and even of subjective cognition (the ‘GmHRH’ program from subsection 2.7 of Part 1, ‘From Godel to Trump’).
This workshop will explore the GmRHRH territory from various perspectives: the prospects for provably-consistent mathematics (‘G’), the kinds of brain-processed information (or ‘truth-discernment’) that meter-Hamiltonian arguments can support (‘mH’), and interpretations of the Riemann Hypothesis (‘RH’) that invoke the quantum break-time of an as-yet unknown (chaoatic) physical system. More crucially, participants will explore how these apparently disparate G/mH/RH avenues may point to (or even constructively lead to) some common and significant future outcomes for humankind as a whole.
Tentative Timeline: Q3 2025
To register interest, please get in touch.
‘Essential Singularity’ (courtesy Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0)