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ワークショップ名：Stellar Dynamics in a Virtual Universe Workshop
担当：Piet Hut, Rob Knop, George Djorgovski, Adam Johnson
開催時間：毎週木曜日　午前６時
言語：英語

※こちらは、MICAとキラ研究所の共同ワークショップです。

Location: MICA auditorium, http://slurl.com/secondlife/StellaNova/23/113/21

In this weekly workshop we will discuss how to set up N-body simulations in virtual worlds, starting with Second Life, and moving on to OpenSim and other worlds.  We are planning to start a wiki on which we provide a complete open-source description of our algorithms and their implementations, together with elementary introductions to the mathematics and physics of Newtonian gravity, and numerical methods used to solve the differential equations that correspond to Newton's laws.

The basic idea is to start a kind of N-body wikipedia, as a group's process.  It should be self contained, a place to gather all the basic information that is currently missing from the literature.  Up till now, if you want to write a decent N-body code from scratch, you have to somehow catch the oral knowledge that is floating around in the community, most of which has never been written down.  We want to change that.

One place to start is the open-source introductory text written over the last several years by Piet Hut and Jun Makino, "Moving Stars Around"; see http://www.artcompsci.org/#msa where we give pointers to two versions.  The older one is written using C++ and the newer one, with even more detailed background, uses Ruby.  We propose to use the basic text, and to translate the (rather short) pieces of code into other languages, starting with LSL, the Linden Scripting Language, and then to move on to OpenSim.

There are many ways we can grow an N-body Wikipedia, and starting with "Moving Stars Around" is just one suggestion: let us discuss during our first meeting who is interested to contribute, and what we consider the best procedure to start with.

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※こちらは、MICAとキラ研究所の共同ワークショップです。

The following weekly workshop will be offered jointly by Kira and MICA (http://www.mica-vw.org/)

Dates: Wednesdays, 9 am SLT, starting on February 4, 2009 @ Kira Cafe

In this weekly workshop we will discuss the future construction and use of scientific laboratories in virtual worlds.  While each branch of science has its own requirements for building laboratories, there are also many similarities.  Therefore, it makes sense for scientists from different fields to work together to develop ways to construct virtual laboratories.

 Currently, the only way to build a virtual lab is to pick one specific virtual world, and to design all the components of the lab using the tools that are specific for that world.  This means that the huge investment required may not pay off for very long, if that particular world falls out of favor of the users and/or the company running that world decides to discontinue that world (as we saw with Google's Lively, which closed already half a year after it opened...).

 Therefore, a major requirement for serious work by scientists in virtual worlds is to develop ways to build laboratories that can be relocated, from one virtual world into the next.  We will discuss the many complex issues that are involved in this simple-sounding question, from purely technical issues (software compatibility) to human networking issues (how to get people to agree on standards) to legal issues (intellectual property rights).

For past transcripts go to ReLam Workshop Transcripts

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An exploration of the nature of time, based on readings of literature as well as comparing notes of personal investigations. 

Pema Pera is Piet Hut in RL.  For more on Piet see Board.

Case Vyper is Adam Frank, Professor of Astrophysics at Rochester University, (http://www.pas.rochester.edu/~afrank/afrankhome/afrank.html), who is also the author of a recent book "The Constant Fire: Science Myth and the Sacred".  More details to follow soon!  

For more see the Time Workshop wiki 

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Phenomenology is a term that is used in different ways in different fields of study.  In philosophy, it is the name of an approach pioneered by Edmund Husserl in the early 20th century.  In science, it is a term that describes the first steps of an investigation of a new field, in terms of charting the basic phenomena, before constructing more detailed theoretical models.  Although Husserl earned his living as a philosopher, he could equally well be considered a scientist.  In fact, he systematized a kind of phenomenological analysis, based partly on thought experiments, that has been used extensively in science. A classic example is Einstein's derivation of special relativity, in which he systematically imagined and analyzed the phenomena that Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism predicts for high velocities.

Unlike most philosophers, Husserl was not content with theoretical analysis and speculation.  Instead, he followed the scientific empirical model where theory and experiment go hand in hand.  He introduced an experimental tool, the `epoche', as an approach to investigating phenomena through a systematic suspension of judgment.  In contrast to Cartesian doubt, the Husserlian epoche suspends everything: belief, disbelief, doubt, and so on, and by disclosing phenomena as such, made them open to investigation in their own terms.  In doing so, he aimed at extending the scientific method to include a broader base from which to start.  In addition to the standard scientific empirical method of studying objects and objectifying subjects, Husserl explored ways to study subjects in their own right and the the subject-object relation in a newway.  In short, Husserl critically investigated the empirical method of science, thereby enlarging the notion of `empirical' to include all of experience, not only the narrow study of the object pole of experience.

In the Kira Phenomenology Workshop we set out on an exploration of phenomena in every-day life, in the spirit of Husserl.  We will take our inspiration from Husserl's approach, but there is no need to read tens of thousands of pages that Husserl wrote in his life; as little reason as there is to read all of Newton's or Kepler's work in order to do research in mechanics.  Instead, all participants are encouraged to develop a joint approach, on a basis of peers, building a vocabulary that we will develop together.  All our discussions and our findings are published in complete detail on the publicly visible web pages listed below.  If you are interested in seeing more of our way of conducting research, please visit our workshops in Second Life, in the Kira Cafe.  And if you are seriously interested in participating in our investigations, please ask us to include you in our email group.

This weekly workshop series taking place at 2pm SLT every Friday in the Kira Cafe.  No prior knowledge of phenomenology, or any other kind of philosophy required. We will focus on actual exploration and critical reflection, in that order. Each workshop the group collectively comes up with an exploration for the week and between workshops does homework individually, off-line.  At each workshop the group members: 1) report their finding 2) critically reflect on these findings; 3) together choose a new form of exploration as the homework for the next week.

The Phenomenology wiki where members submit weekly "lab reports" is publicly readable, so if you would like to see all the reports and workshop transcripts go to: 

  http://pheno.wik.is/

The Phenomenology group also has a google group for meeting notices and general discussion of lab reports. 
http://groups.google.com/group/kira-phenomenology-workshop

To read past transcripts of the Workshops and a series of debates on Phenomenology between Pema Pera (astrophysicist) and Gilles Kuhn (epistemologist) please see Events Transcripts.

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　仮想空間セカンドライフを利用して、世界各国で主催されているワークショップへ参加できます。
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As the name indicates this workshop will focus on the study of the philosophical problematic. All domains and problems of philosophy can be studied, however the first general theme will be on the good old "mind/body problem" otherwise known as the "hard problem." The specific themes studied will depend on the evolution of the workshop session and debates and generally subjects of interest will arise spontaneously.

The first two seminars will focus on the article 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. It is available in his draft version online at http://www.ids.ias.edu/~piet/publ/turning/tuc2.htmll. For uniformity this draft version will be used and participants are encouraged to read the paper beforehand. One of the authors known by his avatar name Pema Pera (Piet Hut) has kindly accepted as the first guest star speaker of this seminar.

Starting Wed. 2009.02.04 the workshop will focus on the paper: Chalmers, David J. (2004) How can we construct a science of consciousness? In: The Cognitive Neurosciences III. MIT Press, Cambridge. Available at http://consc.net/papers/scicon.pdf.

This paper is heavily linked to our undergoing discussion so it will be a continuation of it with a supplemental element.      

Gilles Kuhn in RL obtained a Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondie (DEA) in philosophy (Master degree) and a DEA in cognitives sciences in France and Belgium. He has also studied political science and human rights and humanitarian international law. Gilles is curre

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ワークショップ名：Maxine's Dream Workshop
担当: Maxine Walden
開催時間：毎週火曜日　午後２時
言語：英語

This workshop will continue a theme presented a few weeks ago of ways to understand the dream and the dreaming process --as a process which is ongoing, waking or sleeping, and involving the unconscious regions of the mind, in which recent or intense sensory and emotional experiences are integrated into potential meaning for the individual. In addition, it is intriguing to consider the dream as information carrier and problem solver. From Maxine's perspective there are many ways to view the dream and dreaming just as there are many ways to view the unconscious regions.  Maxine will offer her current view, evolving over several decades, and is open to considering others' views in these discussions.  One approach Maxine will not be considering is the neurobiological approach to the dream; not because it is not valuable, but just in order to focus to some extent the area of discourse.

During the first session, Maxine will try to review some previous discussion and perhaps offer a current dream and how it might be understood.  While there will be few ground rules, she believes it best to make clear that this will not be a group in which participants 'read each others' dreams, but a discussion on dreams more generally, which may include vignettes from personal and group experiences, where they enrich the ongoing discussion.

In RL Maxine Walden is a physician and a psychoanalyst, studying the psyche for nearly 4 decades. She has been training students in the field for over 20 years, both within the university setting and among several psychoanalytic institutes in North American and Britain. At the heart of her interest as a psychoanalyst is the Unconscious, that vast area out of awareness which may be considered an 'inner cosmos' so influential in all areas of life and from which our dreams and our dreads arise. Her writings include a number of psychoanalytic topics, such as dreams and dreaming, the psychic forces for and against knowing and growth, the importance of emotional experience, and most recently that what we term as 'evil' derives from our everyday humanity. After years of studying the classical writings in the field she has come to feel that one's own unique self-reflective clinical experience is the best teacher in studying the psychic realms. She will speak from her own experience, then, suggesting that the dream can be not only the organizer of experience, and problem solver but also a messenger between the unconscious and conscious realms.

For Transcripts see Maxine's Dream Workshop Transcripts 

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