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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.
M.C. Escher Sky and Water I (1938)
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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
To be announced
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Past Presentations
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
Interviews
Mark Jackson Interview
Frank Potter Interview