The Map and the Territory (eBook)

Shyam Wuppuluri is working as a research associate for R. N. Podar institute. A computer science graduate, he has a long-standing interest in various areas of philosophy, theoretical physics, mathematics and cognitive science. Prior to this, he edited the volume “Space, time and limits of human understanding, foreword by John Stachel, afterword by Noam Chomsky”, which was published in Springer's Frontiers Collection, 2016.   E-mail: shyam.wuppuluri@gmail.com    Francisco Antonio Doria is a Brazilian physicist. Doria is a Professor Emeritus at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he currently teaches on the foundations of economic theory at the graduate School of Engineering (UFRJ COPPE). Doria has a B. Sc. in chemical engineering and a PhD in mathematical physics (under the guidance of Leopoldo Nachbin). He has made contributions to the gauge field copy problem in quantum field theory and proved with Newton da Costa several incompleteness theorems in mathematics, physics and mathematical economics, including the undecidability of chaos theory. Doria is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Philosophy, was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, 1989-1990, and a visiting researcher at the mathematics department, University of Rochester, 1979-1981. He thinks of himself as a philosopher and literary scholar with a humanist education, and has had as students Marcelo Gleiser and José Acacio de Barros, among other noted researchers. He likes to trace his interdisciplinary interests to a 17th century relative, the noted Portuguese writer Father Antonio Vieira (1608-1697).   Email: fadoria63@gmail.com

● Philosophy -- Philosophy of Abstraction. Ontological/Epistemological distinction. Thoughtvs Reality. Generalization vs Contextuality.● Theoretical Physics: Space, Time, Dimension, Force, Wave Functions, Operators, Fields,Strings etc., Are they real? Transition/Correspondence between theories and reality. Varioustangled loops and circular definitions at the foundations of Science.● Mathematics: Magnitude -- Number, Sets, Classes, Functions, Abstract mathematicalstructures/objects, Platonism and various schools of thought.● Information Theory/ Computing/Logic: Information is everything. Aspects of computabilityand undecidability in our very map (Theories and Constructs) and how far they leak into theterritory (reality).● Biology/Cognitive Science: Perception -- how our map of the territory and thereby the veryterritory itself is fenced by the evolution. Brain/Mind and the extent they let us patch thereality with percepts. Map and Territory, an illusion? From a cognitive viewpoint.List of authors who have accepted: (* = tentative) · Ian Stewart, University of Warwick, England.  · William G Unruh, University of British Columbia, Canada.  · Gregory Chaitin, IBM and his wife Virginia Chaitin.  · Simon Saunders (*), Oxford University, Oxford.  · Simon Kochen(*), Princeton University.  · Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of physics at Dartmouth.   · José Acacio de Barros, Associate professor at San Francisco State.  · Tian Yu Cao, Boston University.  · David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute.  · Vlatko Vedral, University of Oxford.  · Edward Slowik, Winona State University, USA. · Steven Weinstein, University of Waterloo.  · Eors Szathmary, Munich and Eötvös University.  · Barry Dainton, University of Liverpool.  · John Searle (*), University of California.