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| About Us Welcome. We appreciate your visit to The Center for Cooperative Phenomena. The Center is partly motivated by the realization that the reductionist program in science may be reaching the stage of diminishing returns. The greatest strength of reductionism is in dealing with linear systems, but much of nature is not linear, including most of what is really interesting in the world. Specifically the Center will support research and education over the broad range of nonlinear phenomena. The Center will strive to serve in the public interest by inviting guest speakers who think deeply about the foundations of their subject rather than those who do low-risk incremental type of research. The Center for Cooperative Phenomena is partly supported by the Metanexus Institute in Philadelphia. more...  M.C. Escher Sky and Water I (1938) Important links Metanexus Institute Founded in 1998, the Metanexus Institute is a global interdisciplinary think tank involving over 240 active groups in more than 40 countries. It promotes the constructive engagement of science and religion in the communal pursuit of wisdom in order to address humanity's most profound questions and challenges, and organizes conferences and initiatives worldwide. Santa Fe Institute (Univ. of Michigan) Center for the Study of Complex Systems (Univ. of New Hampshire) Complex Systems Research Center (Claremont Grad. Univ.) Center for Process Studies |
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Speaker Series Crises in Cosmology: Contesting the Standard Model by Dr. Frank Potter UC Irvine 4 PM on Thursday, April 16, 2009 Nahm Auditorium in W.C. Morris Available in PDF format Past Presentations Elucidating Euler by Dr. Douglas Kindschi Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI October 23, 2008 & Science, Mathematics, and Religion: Views of Reality by Dr. Douglas Kindschi Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, MI October 23, 2008 What's So Super about Superstrings? by Dr. Mark Jackson, Fermilab October 6, 2006 Synergy and the Fate of Humankind by Dr. Frank Potter, UC Irvine September 21, 2006 Available in PDF format The Sacred and Mundane Apprehension of Nature by Dr. Gregory Derry, Loyola College, Baltimore October 18, 2007 What Green-Algal Sexuality Can Tell Us About the Origins of Sexuality by Dr. Ursula Goodenough Washington University, St. Louis November 1, 2007 The History of Nature: Why Don't We Teach It In Our Schools? by Dr. Ursula Goodenough Washington University, St. Louis November 1, 2007 Systems Metaphysics: A Bridge from Science to Religion by Dr. Martin Zwick Portland State University Thursday, April 17, 2008 Outreach Changing Views of Synchronicity by Dr. Christopher Jargodzki University of Central Missouri March 25, 2010 Available in PDF format Interviews Mark Jackson Interview Frank Potter Interview |