Submissions for papers, panel sessions, interactive presentations, workshops, performance sessions, and creative contributions inspired by George Spencer-Brown’s work and life – and particularly his key work, Laws of Form (LoF) – are now open and welcomed from participants keen to contribute to LoF22 which will be held from Thursday 4 August to Saturday 6 August, 2022 at the University of Liverpool.
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Keynotes will be given by Barry Smith, Francis Jeffrey, and Stephen Wolfram.
Professor Barry Smith directs the National Center for Ontological Research, works in fields spanning biomedical informatics, geospatial ontology, early phenomenology, military and intelligence ontological analysis, and he founded and developed the field of formal ontology after it’s establishment by Edmund Husserl.
Neurophysiologist Dr. Francis Jeffrey worked for University of California, NASA, and DARPA, and was the director of Dr. John C. Lilly’s psychedelic float tank laboratories, the Phenomenology Experimental Research Center. Together with John Lilly and George Spencer-Brown, Francis Jeffrey pioneered the application of Spencer-Brown’s calculus in the flotation tank, calling it the “Void method.”
Stephen Wolfram famously created “a new kind of science” with computational systems such as cellular automata and his language called Mathematica.
Facilities for giving presentations by video link will be available for those who, due to distance, are unable to attend in person. Presentations will be recorded and may be made available online. It is intended that, after the conference, as with LoF50, the papers will be compiled into a book.
Deadline for submissions: Monday 28 February, 2022.