Clarissa AL Lee's Lateral Worlds

In case anyone is interested, you can find my contribution to the HCP 2011 Symposium in Paris over here . It's called "Speculative Reading, Speculative Physics" :)

Over the last week, between fighting a bad cold and slumming over the various sitcoms, mysteries, and intense dramas to forget how my life suck with that cold, I took to revisiting some of the ideas I have initially toyed with in an attempt to revise the outline for my dissertation prospectus 1. Natural laws and counterfactuals: I've been reading into how physical/natural laws as produced through philosophical thought can, or not, be useful to thinking about sets, subsets and constraints when scripting the narrative of quantum reality that is the crux of my dissertation. I am probably a little skeptical of the clean lines that analytic philosophy tries to delineate when using well-known examples in classical mechanics, as well as wrt various self-referential and circular forms of logic. However, there are more to be said about laws and I may revisit this section at the later stage of my dissertation. 2. In reading two sections (I decided to skip the third section for the time b...

Being home for a day since the past 1.5 weeks of very stimulating while also exhausting excursion to Europe means that it is now time to sit back and think through all that I have learned. I have two separate conferences to follow up on, in terms of content and direction. For now, I will begin by revisiting the material from the emergent quantum theory conference, mapping out the foundational questions, then linking that to some of the science fiction material I will be reading. Then the next one will be about all the new data analysis and physics outlook stemming from the HCP conference. It is so weird to spend my Monday back in Durham instead of in an auditorium of the Pierre & Marie Curie University in Paris. More to come. Now that it is Thanksgiving weekend, I'll have plenty of time to catch up on work without driving myself to the brink.