Meet the Board – December 2023
We are delighted to invite you to a ‘Meet the Board’ session chaired by our President, Prof Bernard Carr.
This will be an opportunity for the new Co-Chairs of the Network, Paul Kieniewicz and Dr Vasileios Basios to share their collaborative vision going forward and to hear your views and suggestions. We will also celebrate our achievements over our Golden Jubilee Year when we were able to hold an in-person Annual Gathering for the first time since 2019.
We very much look forward to seeing you online during the Festive Season.
Friday 22nd December, 6-7:30 pm (UK, GMT).
Please join using this Zoom link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84794895246?pwd=allxNXgyQVNjRXd4Q0ZuSVZhWTVldz09
Meeting ID: 847 9489 5246
Passcode: greetings
Speakers
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Vasileios BasiosPhysicist, Senior researcherDr Vasileios Basios is a senior researcher in the Physics of Complex Systems at the University of Brussels, with over 25 years of experience in research and coaching. His interdisciplinary work focuses on self-organisation, emergence in complex matter, complementarity and the foundations of complex systems. Mentored by Nobel laureates Ilya Prigogine and Grégoire Nicolis, Dr Basios received his Ph.D. from the University of Brussels after studying cybernetics with John S. Nicolis. His research interests include foundations of complexity science, emergence in complex matter, nonlinear dynamics and chaos in biological information processing, computability and the logic of extended Bayesian inference.
He is deeply interested in the history of scientific ideas and their role in transforming science beyond the mechanistic worldview. His work aims to bring insights from complex systems science to consciousness studies, working towards an inclusive and self-reflexive interdisciplinary science of consciousness. In 2023, his research team received the inaugural Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize for their study on detecting deviations from random activity as indicators of nonlocal consciousness correlates beyond the brain. By contributing to complexity and consciousness research in a variety of formats, from podcasts to books to peer-reviewed papers, he aspires to advance knowledge in this evolving field.
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Bernard CarrEmeritus Professor, SMN PresidentProf Bernard Carr is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy at Queen Mary University of London. For his PhD, he studied the first second of the universe with Stephen Hawking at Cambridge University and Caltech. His professional area of research is cosmology and astrophysics and includes such topics as the early universe, black holes, dark matter, and the anthropic principle. He is a former chairman and current President of the Scientific and Medical Network and a former President of the Society for Psychical Research.
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Paul KieniewiczAstronomer and GeologistPaul Kieniewicz was born in Scotland, and holds degrees in Astronomy and Geophysics. He is Vice-Chairman of the Scientific and Medical Network. More recently he lives in Poland, where he lectures and writes on Gnosticism, translating Gnostic texts into Polish. He is the author of science fiction novels, Immortality Machine and Gaia’s Children, and co-author (With Andrew Glazewski) of Harmony of the Universe and The Cosmic View.
