NIMBioS Tuesday Seminar Series
In conjunction with the interdisciplinary activities of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis (NIMBioS), a seminar series on topics in mathematical biology will be hosted at NIMBioS every other Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. (unless otherwise noted) in the NIMBioS Lecture Hall on the 4th floor of 1534 White Ave., Suite 400. Seminar speakers will focus on their research initiatives at the interface of mathematics and many areas of the life sciences. Light refreshments will be served beginning 30 minutes before each talk.
Time/Date: Seminar canceled; may be rescheduled at a later date.
Location: Room 403, Blount Hall, 1534 White Ave., Suite 400
Speaker:
Stuart Kauffman, Department of Mathematics, Department of Biochemistry, and Complexity Group, University of Vermont
Topic:
No law entails the evolution of the biosphere
Abstract:
At least since Isaac Newton, an enduring belief among physicists and
many other scientists has been that there is a fundamental set of laws,
presumably concerning particle physics, that will deductively entail
the entire evolution of the universe and all in it, including all of
earthly life, the evolution of the biosphere, econosphere and even
history. If so, nothing truly novel, i.e. un-entailed, can arise.
Dr. Kauffman provides strong grounds to say that the long held belief
that there is a theory entailing all that happens in the universe is
false. No Law entails the evolution of life. If so, reductionism is
false, and we must think anew. Our world is not what we have thought.
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