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2025 Complexity Science Symposium

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FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2025 - Symposium Day 1
7:00 AM - 8:45 AM  Breakfast at hotel for hotel guests
11:00 AM  Shuttle from hotel to venue
 
11:30 AM - 12:00 PM  Ribbon cuttings
 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Registration + Lunch 
 
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM David Krakauer + Melanie Mitchell (SFI): Welcome + Introduction
 
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Kyle Harper (University of Oklahoma + SFI) "Emergence and Direction in Human History"
 
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM Discussion
 
2:30 PM - 2:45 PM Break
 
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Andrea Liu (University of Pennsylvania + SFI) "Tunable Matter: A Paradigm for Emergence of Complex Functionality"
 
3:15 PM - 3:45 PM Discussion
 
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Break
 
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google Research) "The Cybernetics of Consciousness: Why Prediction Feels Like Something"
 
4:30 PM - 5:00 PM Panel Discussion on Consciousness: Melanie Mitchell (SFI) Moderator, Blaise Agüera y Arcas (Google Research), David Krakauer (SFI), John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins University + SFI), Tom McCarthy (Writer + SFI)
 
5:00 PM - 5:15 PM Discussion
 
5:15 PM - 8:00 PM Reception + Dinner + After-Dinner Talk
 
5:15 PM - 6:00 PM Reception
 
6 :00 PM - 7:00 PM Dinner
 
7:00 PM - 7:30 PM Agnieszka Kurant (Conceptual Artist) "Collective Intelligence"
 
7:30 PM - 8:00 PM Discussion
 
8:00 PM -8:30 PM Shuttles to hotel
 
SATURDAY, APRIL 26, 2025 - Symposium Day 2
7:00 AM - 8:45 AM Breakfast at hotel for hotel guests
 
8:45 AM Shuttle from hotel to venue
 
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM David Wallace (University of Pittsburgh) "Emergence and Equilibrium"
 
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Discussion
 
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM Break
 
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM David Gracias (Johns Hopkins University) "Embodying Intelligence in Soft Matter through Biochemical and Cellular Interactions"
 
11:15 AM - 11:45 AM Discussion
 
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM Lunch
 
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM David Krakauer (SFI) "The Emergence of Intelligence in Machine Minds"
 
1:30 PM - 2:00 PM Discussion
 
2:00 PM - 2:15 PM Break
 
2:15 PM - 2:45 PM Rosemary Braun (Northwestern University + SFI) "Complexity and Emergent Regularity in Living Systems"
 
2:45 PM - 3:15 PM Discussion
 
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Break
 
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM General Discussion
 
4:30 PM Shuttles (or self-drive) to restaurant
 
5:00 PM - 8:30 PM Reception + Dinner
 




Contact

Email: rtursi@santafe.edu


  • Suggested Readings
  • More is Different (Anderson, 1972)
  • What Emergence Can Possibly Mean (Carroll + Parola, 2024)
  • Real Patterns (Dennett, 1991)
  • The Information Theory of Individuality (Krakauer et al, 2020)
  • What Is a Macrostate? Subjective Observations and Objective Dynamics (Shalizi + Moore, 2023)