Abstract
This is the first principals meeting for the Foundations of Relational Realism research project exploring the phenomenon of logical causality in quantum mechanics and its implications for complex adaptive systems. Specifically, we will: 1) examine the role of local-global internal relation by logical implication in quantum mechanics and its exemplification in the phenomena of environmental and 'intrinsic' decoherence; 2) examine a category-theoretic / sheaf-theoretic quantum formalism as a means of rigorously defining and describing these local-global internal relations in quantum mechanics; 3) explore the application of the above to Stu Kauffman's concept of the 'adjacent possible' and its function in complex adaptive systems. Although the explorations undertaken at this workshop will fall within the general context of our " Foundations of Relational Realism " research project (www.csus.edu/cpns/) they will not be limited to the concerns of the latter; our goal, rather, is to gain new insights, via the expertise of the workshop's participants, into the questions with which our project is concerned.
Participants:
Philip Stamp: Dept. of Physics, University of British Columbia / PITI
Stuart Kauffman: Complex Systems Center, University of Vermont
Elias Zafiris: Dept. of Mathematics, University of Athens
Karim Bschir: Dept. of Philosophy, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Timothy Eastman: NASA
Michael Epperson: Dept. of Philosophy & College of Natural Sciences
& Mathematics, Director, CPNS, California State University