Here is a short paper, introducing Kira:
Here are some papers, jointly written by Kira members:
Turning
'The Hard Problem' Upside Down & Sideways
by Piet Hut and Roger Shepard, 1996, J. of Consc. Stud. 3,
313-329; reprinted in Explaining Consciousness , ed. J. Shear
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 305-322.
Elements
of Reality
by Piet Hut and Bas van Fraassen, 1997, J. of Consc. Stud. 4,
167-180.
My
experience, Your Experience, and the World we Experience: Turning 'The
Hard Problem' Upside Down
by Roger Shepard and Piet Hut, 1998, in Toward a Science of
Consciousness II, eds. S.R. Hameroff, A.W. Kaszniak, A.C. Scott
(Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press), pp. 143-148.
We are currently preparing the following books:
Reflections on the first Kira Summer School
This book will contain summaries of the talks given during the Kira Summer School '98, an impression of the
various activities that were held, and general background about the Kira
Institute.
Dialogues on World Views in a Scientific Age
This book will be co-authored by Piet Hut and Steven Tainer, and will
compare our modern scientific world view with that of earlier cultures.
Here are some books (co-)authored by Kira members, on topics related to
the areas of interest of the Kira Institute:
Catching the Light : The Entwined History of Light and Mind
by Arthur Zajonc, 1995 [Oxford Univ. Pr.]
Goethe's Way of Science : A Phenomenology of Nature
by David Seamon and Arthur Zajonc, eds., 1998 [State Univ. of New York
Pr.]
The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundations of
Quantum Mechanics
by George Greenstein & Arthur Zajonc, 1997 [Jones and Bartlett]
Dragon's Play
by Charles Belyea and Steven Tainer, 1991 [Berkeley: Great Circle Life
Works]
The Empirical Stance
by Bas C. Van Fraassen, 2002 [Yale Univ. Pr.]
Scientific Image,
by Bas van Fraassen, 1980 [Oxford Univ. Pr.]
Quantum Mechanics: An Empiricist View
by Bas van Fraassen, 1991 [Oxford Univ. Pr.]
And here are some papers (co-)authored by Kira members, on topics
related to the areas of interest of the Kira Institute:
Life as
a Laboratory
by Piet Hut, 2003, in Buddhism and Science: Breaking New Ground,
ed. A. Wallace (Columbia Univ. Pr.), pp. 399-415.
Ambiguity
at the Roots of Precision
by Piet Hut, 2003, in Aimai no Chi (The Wisdom of Ambiguity),
the proceedings of a conference in Kyoto, Japan, March 1999, at the
International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), eds.
H. Kawai and I. Nakazawa (Iwanami publ. comp.), pp. 51-63.
Life as
a Laboratory
Hut, P. 2001, to appear in an anthology of articles concerning Physics
and Buddhism, ed. A. Wallace (Columbia Univ. Pr.).
As in
a Dream
Hut, P. 2000, position paper, which was the basis for the closing talk
at the Future Visions conference
in New York City, in September 2000, as part of the meeting of the
State of the World Forum in tandem with the United Nations Millennium
Summit.
Complexity
and Functionality: A Search for the Where, the When, and the How
by Piet Hut, Brian Goodwin, and Stuart Kauffman, 2000, in Unifying
Themes in Complex Systems, Proceedings of the International
Conference on Complex Systems, ed.: Y. Bar-Yam (Cambridge, MA: Perseus
Books), pp. 259-268.
Confronting
Reality
by Piet Hut, 1997, paper presented at the 5th Japanese-American
Phenomenology Conference, Sept. 1996, Sendai, Japan.
Interpretation in Science and in the Arts
by Bas van Fraassen & Jill
Sigman, 1993, in Realism and Representation , ed. G.
Levine (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin Pr.), pp. 73-99.
The World of Empiricism
by Bas van Fraassen, 1994, in Physics and Our View of the World,
ed. J. Hilgevoort (Cambridge Univ. Pr.), pp. 114-134.
The Quantum Challenge: Modern Research on the Foundations of
Quantum Mechanics
by George Greenstein & Arthur Zajonc, 1997 [Jones and Bartlett]
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