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Fall 2020 Update

  Taking Courses: Philosophy of Science (Phil 860) - Computation and the Sciences, Prof J. Symons Phenomenology (Phil 590) at KU, Prof I. Symons Auditing Quantum Mechanics III, Quantum Field Theory I (review), Prof. I. Lewis My Tutoring position at Haskell Indian Nations University (began Winter 2020) is on hiatus due to Corona Closures. Applying for Work Study position(s) at KU.

To the Metahumans!!!! A review of Deepak Chopra's Metahuman

Deepak Chopra's book Metahuman is a delightful pathway to the practice of being at peace with one's self as a denizen of the universe who has "gone beyond". Beyond the normal path of recreational or work-business-school 9-to-5 plodding; into the family of folks who have become more than they are.  Following these exercises with an open mind, you will gain control of yourself and truly unleash your infinite potential. No human can promise miracles but if you follow this path earnestly I believe firmly you will at least learn to recognize and embrace the miracle that you are.  Following this book you will learn, at some level of reality, we are entangled. We are nonlocal. We exist and have consciousness--whatever that "magical" thing is! (Deepak tells us what he knows!) We can meditate and feel our very being, our existence. But we are also open and permeable systems. We co-create our experiences with others as members of groups. We generate experiences as ...

Life in Fall 2018

Jennifer L. Nielsen, JLNielsen @ KU.edu Current Academic Home: KU Philosophy Department Research: Philosophy of Science / Information / Cognition / Physics Advisor: Corey Maley, PhD Princeton https://philosophy.ku.edu/corey-maley https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1754974 Coursework: Phil 611 - Topics in Advanced Symbolic Logic Phil 820 - Early Modern Women's Metaphysics (Du Chatelet, Cavendish, Conway) Phil 800 - Graduate Tutorial (Philosophy of Language Emphasis - Frege, Russel, Kripke etc) Attending Phil 860 - Topics - Resilience and Emergence Research Reading: Books: Physical Perspectives on Computation, Computational Perspectives on Physics Cuffaro/Fletcher 2018 Cognitive Biology - Gennaro Auletta Papers by Maley, Turing, Copeland, Piccinini, Shagrir, Auletta (will post links when motivated)