Presented by Ideas Roadshow & Conway Hall Ethical Society
Celebrated theoretical physicist Sir Prof Roger Penrose (Honorary member SMN) speaks with Ideas Roadshow host Howard Burton on the current and future state of theoretical physics in keeping with his latest book, ‘Fashion, Faith and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe’.
Tickets: £10 standard, £7 concessions, £5 Conway Hall Ethical Society members.
This talk will build on Jude’s presentation to the Mystics and Scientists conference where she laid out the latest scientifically based evidence, […]
It is true that scientific research and spiritual search both begin from a sense of mystery, as was specifically remarked upon by Einstein. However, there are profound differences in their approaches, and spiritual mysteries, unlike the scientific ones, cannot be solved even in principles.
The Royal Institution of Great Britain 21 Albemarle Street London W1S 4BS The ERC-funded project ‘A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology’ (2013-2018) has sought […]
Causal influences in the real world occurring on evolutionary, developmental, and functional timescales are characterised by a combination of bottom up and top down effects. Digital computers give very clear examplars of how this happens, and it is crucial to brain functioning. There are five different distinct classes of top down effects, the key one leading to the existence of complex systems being adaptive selection. The case will be made that while bottom-up self-assembly can attain a certain degree of complexity, truly complex systems such as life can only come into being if top-down processes come into play in addition to bottom up processes. They allow genuine emergence to occur, based in multiple realisability at lower levels of higher level structures and functions.
