An international symposium in honour of Basil J. Hiley’s 75th birthday
11 November 2010, Helsinki, 12 p.m. - 4 p.m.
Organized by Philosophical Society of Finland and University of Helsinki
Sponsored by SHI R&D, Gothenburg and Federation of Finnish Learned Societies
Venue: Tieteiden talo, Kirkkokatu 6, Helsinki, room 104
THURSDAY 11th November
12.05 Introductory remarks: Harald Atmanspacher (Freiburg)
12.15 Basil Hiley (London): “What does quantum theory teach us about
reality?”
13.15 Stig Stenholm (Stockholm/ Helsinki): Comment
13.45 Break
14.15 Harald Atmanspacher (Freiburg): “Quantum approaches to
consciousness”
15.00 Paavo Pylkkänen (Helsinki): “The philosophical implications of
Bohm and Hiley’s interpretation of quantum theory”
15.40 Concluding remarks: Basil Hiley (London)
16.00 Seminar ends
All welcome!
There will also be, in 12.-13. November 2010, a smaller workshop ”Toward
an Algebra of Process” focusing on Hiley’s research, in Hotel
Presidentti, Helsinki.
Participants to this workshop include Harald
Atmanspacher (Freiburg), Bob Coecke (Oxford), Maurice de Gosson (Wien),
Chris Dewdney (Portsmouth), Thomas Filk (Freiburg), Cecilia Flori
(Potsdam), Basil Hiley (London), Nick Monk (Nottingham), Roger Penrose
(Oxford, TBC), Hartmann Roemer (Freiburg), William Seager (Toronto),
Michael D. Silberstein (Elisabethtown), Stig Stenholm
(Stockholm/Helsinki), W.M. Stuckey (Elisabethtown), Mike Towler
(Cambridge) and Georg Wikman (SHI R&D Gothenburg).
If you are interested in taking in part in the workshop, please contact Paavo
Pylkkänen, paavo.pylkkanen@helsinki.fi
Internet links:
Basil Hiley’s home page
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/tpru/BasilHiley.html
Introduction to Bohm’s interpretation of quantum theory
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qm-bohm/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm_theory
A graduate course in Cambridge University on the deBroglie-Bohm theory
http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mdt26/pilot_waves.html
Recent international symposium on the deBroglie-Bohm theory
http://www.vallico.net/tti/master.html?http://www.vallico.net/tti/deBB_1...
Quantum approaches to consciousness
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qt-consciousness/