sYnthetic Biology! Craig Venter! talks Live webcast 7PM west coast

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Craig Venter Live via Webcast

This Seminar will be broadcast live via webcast during the event.

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Monday, February 25, 2008

7:00 PM

Herbst Theatre

401 Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, California 94102

37.7792, -122.42

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Education

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The Long Now Foundation presents Seminars About Long-term Thinking
Joining 3.5 Billion Years of Microbial Invention - with Craig Venter

Few people in history have expanded the capabilities of science and technology as profoundly as J. Craig Venter. Life on Earth is about to be fundamentally altered by the creation of a totally synthetic organism, an artificial species genetically encoded from scratch by scientists working under Dr. Venter. Do not miss what he has to say about the implications of this watershed moment.

February 25th, (MONDAY)
Doors open 7:00pm, talk at 7:30pm (duration ~1.5 hours)

***Long Now Press Update***
Craig Venter's Seminar will be presented live via webcast on Monday, February 25th at 7:30 pm.
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Francisco Varela updates by friends & family: From AutoPoieSis to NeuroPhenomenology: biophysics of "Doing"

From autopoiesis to neurophenomenology:

Francisco Varela's exploration of the biophysics of being

DAVID RUDRAUF, ANTOINE LUTZ, DIEGO COSMELLI, JEAN-PHILIPPE LACHAUX, and MICHEL LE VAN QUYEN

Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, CNRS UPR 640,Paris, France

Corresponding Author: David Rudrauf. Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Imagerie Cérébrale, CNRS UPR 640, Hôpital de la Pitié-Salpêtrière, 47 Bd de l'Hôpital, 75651, Paris Cedex 13, France.
Phone: (33-1) 42 16 11 72 - e-mail: david.rudrauf@chups.jussieu.fr

ABSTRACT

This paper reviews in detail Francisco Varela's work on subjectivity and consciousness in the biological sciences. His original approach to this "hard problem" presents a subjectivity that is radically intertwined with its biological and physical roots. It must be understood within the framework of his theory of a concrete, embodied dynamics, grounded in his general theory of autonomous systems. Through concepts and paradigms such as biological autonomy, embodiment and neurophenomenology, the article explores the multiple levels of circular causality assumed by Varela to play a fundamental role in the emergence of human experience.