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April 2013

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Talk by Hans Briegel at the MCMP (Wed. 24.04)
by Dardashti, Radin April 22, 2013

April 22, 2013

Speaker: Hans Briegel (Innsbruck) Wednesday 24th April 2013 Ludwigstr.31 Room E021 Time: 6 to 8 pm Title: On Agency and Freedom under the Laws of Nature Abstract: I will discuss the possibility of freedom for agents that are, with no exception and at all scales of their body, subject to physical law. I will relate the discussion to a model of an artificial agent that exhibits a primitive notion of creativity and freedom, which is part of a recently introduced scheme of information processing called projective simulation. This provides an explicit proposal on how we can reconcile our understanding of universal physical law with the idea that higher biological entities can acquire a form of freedom that allows them to increasingly detach themselves from a strict dependence on the surrounding world.

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CfP: Reduction and Emergence in Physics (LMU Munich, 21-22 June)
by Karim Thebault April 1, 2013

April 1, 2013

********************************************* REDUCTION AND EMERGENCE IN PHYSICS Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy & Center for Advanced Studies at LMU Munich 21-22 June 2013 www.lmu.de/reductionandemergenceinphysics ********************************************* The aim of the workshop is to bring together physicists and philosophers of physics for a meeting focused on fundamental issues in physics relating to reduction and emergence. Participants will include researchers with expertise in string theory, statistical physics, condensed matter physics, and renormalisation. The workshop will combine consideration of issues in contemporary physics research with discussion of longstanding philosophical questions, such as the nature of scientific explanations and the relationship between different systems of physical laws. The workshop will be held in Munich over two days (21-22 June) and will feature talks by researchers with a wide range of expertise. Submission of contributed papers are welcomed from researchers with interests in emergence and reduction in physics. We invite submissions of an abstract of 1000 words by 15th April 2013. Only PDF files are accepted. We anticipate there will be space for between two and four contributed talks. To submit please send the file to Karim.Thebault(a)lrz.uni-muenchen.de. INVITED SPEAKERS: Sir Michael Berry (Bristol), Jeremy Butterfield (Cambridge), Richard Dawid (Vienna), Georgi Dvali (Munich), Erwin Frey (Munich), Paul Hoyningen-Huene (Hannover), Eric Winsberg (South Florida), Charlotte Werndl (LSE), Lena Zuchowski (Cambridge) ORGANIZERS: Stephan Hartmann, Sebastian Lutz, Karim Thébault

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