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During this decade, we have witnessed the emergence of a new discipline called metascience, metaresearch, or the science of science. Most exciting is the fact that this is emerging as a truly interdisciplinary enterprise with contributors from every domain of research. This symposium serves as a formative meeting for metascience as a discipline. The meeting will bring together leading scholars that are investigating questions related to themes.

The First International Conference on the Neuroscience of Free Will was held in the summer of 2017 at the Sigtuna Foundation in Sweden, also sponsored by the Agora for Biosystems. As we continue to learn about the neural processes underlying volition, decision-making, and action formation, we announce the Second International Conference on the Neuroscience of Free Will, which will be held in Southern California, around Chapman University's new Institute for Interdisciplinary Brain and Behavioral Sciences, from Thursday, March 14, in the afternoon to Monday, March 18, 2019, at noon. There, we will retake stock of the field and revisit challenges and promising pathways forward.

This conference has been made available by the generous support of the Fetzer Franklin Fund and additional support from the President's Office and Crean College at Chapman University.

For more information, or for help with registration, please contact fetzer@elementsmeetings.com or go to eiseverywhere.com/ehome/neuroscienceandfreewill.

Conference organizer

Uri Maoz, PhD

Registration

You can register for this program by clicking "Register Now”.

On the occasion of David Bohm’s 100th birthday, the EmQM17 Symposium offered an open forum for critically evaluating the prospects and significance – for 21st century physics – of ontological quantum mechanics, an approach which David Bohm helped pioneer. Contributions were invited that presented current advances in both standard as well as realist approaches to quantum mechanics, including new experiments, work in quantum foundations, and quantum philosophy.

The symposium "EmQM15 – Emergent Quantum Mechanics" invites the open exploration of the quantum state as a reality. The resurgence of interest in ontological quantum theory, including both deterministic and indeterministic approaches, challenges long held assumptions and directs focus towards the following questions:

• Is the world local or nonlocal? What is the nature of quantum nonlocality?
• If nonlocal, i.e., superluminal, influences exist then why can’t they be used for superluminal signalling and communication?
• How is the role of the scientific observer/agent to be accounted for in realistic approaches to quantum theory?
• How could recent developments in the field of space-time as an emergent phenomenon advance new insight at this research frontier?
• What new experiments might contribute to new understanding?

These and related questions will be addressed in the context also of a possible “deeper level theory” for quantum mechanics that interconnects three fields of knowledge: emergence, the quantum, and information. Could there appear a revised image of physical reality from recognizing new links between emergence, the quantum, and information? The symposium provides a forum for considering (i) current theoretical and conceptual obstacles which need to be overcome as well as (ii) promising developments and research opportunities on the way towards realistic quantum mechanics. Contributions are invited that present current advances in both standard as well as unconventional approaches.

The symposium invites the open exploration of an emergent quantum mechanics, a possible “deeper level theory” that interconnects three fields of knowledge: emergence, the quantum, and information. Could there appear a revised image of physical reality from recognizing new links between emergence, the quantum, and information? Could a novel synthesis pave the way towards a 21st century, »super-classical« physics? The symposium provides a forum for discussing (i) important obstacles which need to be overcome as well as (ii) promising developments and research opportunities on the way towards an emergent quantum mechanics. Contributions are invited that present current advances in both standard as well as unconventional approaches to quantum mechanics.

Our symposium was open to the public, with free attendance.

A Symposium at the University of California, Santa Barbara, co-organized by Jonathan Schooler and Jan Walleczek, and sponsored by the Fetzer Franklin Fund. The participants sought advances in understanding how various scientific practices may negatively impact the search for truth and objectivity, and how the development of new protocols and open-access methodologies might best address the current reproducibility crisis in science.