IPI Talk – Boris Kriger, Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research, Canada

Our next IPI Talk will be on Sunday, 28^th of Feb. at 17.00 London time zone. 

Live stream link: https://youtube.com/live/adqHg0B_OPo?feature=share

Title: The Tree-Top Meta-Method: Deriving Structural Necessities Across Physical, Cognitive, and Social Systems

Abstract: This talk introduces the Tree-Top Meta-Method, a vertical strategy of inquiry designed to identify structural necessities that must hold for any distinguishable and persistent system. Beginning from well-established anchors in physics, mathematics, and dynamical theory, the method ascends to a discovered limit of generalisation and then descends to derive cross-domain constraints. The resulting unified structural framework shows how persistence, closure, boundary maintenance, resilience, and viability sets manifest across physical systems, cognition, and social dynamics. Selected applications include predictive processing, computational psychiatry, information physics, astrophysics, and AI systems.

Speaker: Boris Kriger

Bio: Boris Kriger is a Canadian independent researcher affiliated with the Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research (Toronto) and the Information Physics Institute (Gosport, UK). He received formal training in medicine and clinical research in the 1990s and has directed a contract research and training institution since 2002. His work focuses on the foundations of science, complex adaptive systems, and the structural limits of formal modelling in singular and self-referential domains. In addition to academic writing, he is the author of numerous interdisciplinary books published on Amazon.

28^th of Feb. @ 17.00 London time zone. Online Teams post streaming debates – a link will be emailed to the IPI members.

IPI Talk – Efthimios Harokopos, 15 Feb @ 17:00 UK time

Our next IPI Talk will be on Sunday, 15^th of Feb. at 17.00 London time zone. 

Live stream link: https://youtube.com/live/HsA5CVFVtWI?feature=share

Title: The Virtual Reality Hypothesis: From Parmenides to Einstein and Beyond

Abstract: The nature of reality has puzzled philosophers and scientists since antiquity. We provide a historical account of how various philosophers and scientists have addressed fundamental issues regarding the nature of reality, starting from the Eleatics, through seventeenth-century rationalists and empiricists, to Einstein’s significant revisions of space and time concepts, and finally to contemporary theories, including the simulation hypothesis. We emphasize the fact that scientific inquiry since the time of Isaac Newton has struggled to salvage the reality and autonomy of the world, but it is debatable whether it has been successful. We propose a reality hypothesis based on Cartesian occasionalism, suggesting alternative motion laws that may align with the virtual reality hypothesis, along with a potential corroborating experiment.

Speaker: Efthimios Harokopos

Bio: Efthimios Harokopos studied mechanical engineering at SUNY at Buffalo, where he received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree. He then worked for AT&T, where he was part of a team that researched and developed advanced automation devices, including high-speed robots for electronic circuit assembly. While working at AT&T, he completed the full coursework for a PhD in Engineering at Columbia University and received a second master’s degree in operations research. Then he worked in the finance industry for several years while keeping his passion for the philosophy of science and carrying on independent research in this field regarding the nature of reality and the impact of the digital revolution on human life and evolution. Currently Efthimios is retired and an independent researcher in the field of philosophy of science. He is the author of the book “Beyond Intelligent Design” and he runs the Digital Cosmology blog: https://digitalcosmology.wordpress.com/

15^th of Feb. @ 17.00 London time zone. Online Teams lecture – a link will be emailed to the IPI members.