Research themes

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Below is a current partial list of EDU Research Themes. See SIGs for the primary Special Interest Groups within which EDU Themes are presently being explored.

[edit] EDU Research Themes

  • Anthropic bias and observer selection effects.
  • Anthropic, fine-tuning, and multiverse/ensemble models in cosmology.
  • Acceleration studies at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Algorithmic information theory, algorithmic complexity and randomness.
  • Astrobiology, Fermi paradox, and SETI.
  • Complexity, emergence, ergodicity, and nonlinear science models with organic and computational features.
  • Computational and artificial life inspired models and analogies applied at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Cosmology with organic features, such as cosmological natural selection (CNS) and CNS with intelligence (CNS-I).
  • Directionality, macrodevelopment, and convergent evolution in biological systems.
  • Evolutionary and developmental processes in evo-devo and theoretical biology.
  • Evolutionary and developmental processes in non-biological systems (physical, chemical, cultural, technological).
  • Hierarchy theory, modularity, and self-organization at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Information theory of evolution and development, intelligence theory at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Network theory, neural networks and scale relativity as a paradigm to explain self-organization of complex networks.
  • Non-equilibrium dissipative structures and energy density/efficiency vectors at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Philosophy and systems theory with organic and computational features at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Philosophical and epistemological status of cosmological and speculative theories.
  • Probability distributions, power laws, and statistical predictability at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Scale relativity, scale invariance and self-similarity models at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Self-reference, iteration, and recursion models at the universe and subsystem scales.
  • Systems models relating physical, chemical, biological, cultural, and technological (PCBCT) subsystems

Themes outside the scope of our community:

  • Non-naturalistic orthogenesis or teleology, intelligent design, supernaturalism, and theology.



Please see Questions for more on research questions being considered by the EDU community.

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