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Thinking the Float Tank
24.08.2023 — 26.08.2023
press release
program
speakers
livestream and participation through zoom

[to be confirmed]

DAY 1
Thursday, August 24, 2023


9:00 — 9:20
▶ Registration and Coffee

9:20 — 09:40
Randolph Dible: interdisciplinarity and First Philosophy

09:40 — 10:00
Akiem Helmling: Introduction to ‘Thinking the Float Tank’ and the Group Exhibit Gödel, Escher, Bach

10:00 — 10:10
▶ Break

10:10 — 10:50
Randolph Dible: Second-Order Cybernetics and Second-Order Phenomenology

10:50 — 11:00
▶ Break

11:00 — 12:20
Keynote I: From Mathematics to Metaphysics
Claire Ortiz Hill: Metaphysics Seizes Possession of Georg Cantor’s Soul, a Journey through His Psyche.

12:20 — 13:50
▶ Lunch


Panel: Kyoto Immersion

13:50 — 14:30
Francesca Greco: Shapes of Nothingness — Countless Relations: A World of Floating Boundaries

14:30 — 15:10
John Krummel: Self-Awareness in Nishida and Beyond: Auto-determination of the Indeterminate as Reflection and Inter-reflection (hybrid)

15:10 — 15:20
▶ Break


15:20 — 16:40
Keynote II: Phenomenological Teleology
Irene Breuer: Limit Phenomena: Primal Hyle, Consciousness, and God as the Constituents of a Phenomenological Teleology

16:40 — 17:00
▶ Break

17:00 — 18:20
Keynote III: The Primordial Sphere of Ownness
Dermot Moran: The Nature of Self-Experience, Husserl’s Sphere of Ownness and the Experience of the Flotation Tank (hybrid)


DAY 2
Friday, August 25, 2023


9:00 — 9:15
▶ Coffee

9:15 — 9:30
Briefing: Randolph Dible on the ‘Void Method’

9:30 — 10:10
Timothy Lyons: Sinking into the Prima Materia

10:10 — 10:50
Jerry Swatez: You are Your Own Boundary Condition – (hybrid)

10:50 — 11:30
Workshop: Form and Void Part I
Moderated by Jerry Swatez and Randolph Dible

11:30 — 13:00
▶ Lunch

13:00 — 14:40
Greg Moss: The Problem of Impure Experience: Nishida and the Origin of Intentionality (hybrid)

13:40 — 14:20
Margaretha Hendrickx on Gestalt Switching (hybrid)

14:20 — 14:30
▶ Break


Panel: Sensory Deprivation and Spiritual Reality

14:30 — 15:10
Kirsty Allan on Parapsychological Uses of the Float Tank

15:10 — 15:50
Callum Cooper on Paranormal Reality

15:50 — 16:00
▶ Break

16:00 — 16:40
James Guy: Metaspheric Perspective (hybrid)

16:40 — 16:50
▶ Break

16:50 — 18:10
Keynote IV: The Infinite Sphere
Elizabeth Brient: The Infinite Sphere as Think Tank: Suspension (of the finite/ in the infinite/ of the infinite in the finite) as Meditative Praxis


DAY 3
Saturday, August 26, 2023


9:00 — 9:15
▶ Coffee


Panel: History of Flotation Science in John Lilly’s Milieu

9:15 — 09:55
R. John Williams on the 1973 Esalen Conference

9:55 — 10:35
Courtney Stephens: John C. Lilly and the Float Tank: From “human agents” to Altered States (hybrid)

10:35 — 10:45
▶ Break

10:45 — 12:05
Workshop: Form and Void Part II
Moderated by Jerry Swatez and Randolph Dible

12:05 — 13:35
▶ Lunch


Panel: Recent Psychedelic Work

13:35 — 14:14
Carl Hayden Smith: DMTx as a Form of Transhuman Technology

14:00 — 14:54
Andres Gomez Emilsson – Neural Field Annealing – (hybrid)

14:55 — 15:05
▶ Break


Panel: On George Spencer-Brown’s Laws of Form

15:05 — 15:45
Graham Ellsbury on Gödel, Wittgenstein, and Laws of Form

15:45 — 16:25
Lou Kauffman: Laws of Form and the Cheshire Cat (hybrid)

16:25 — 16:35
▶ Break



16:35 — 17:55
Keynote: The Infinite Whole
Ion Soteropoulos: The Inductive Creation of the Universe qua Infinite Whole

17:55 — 18:10
Closing Remarks