Research themes

From Evo Devo Universe

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.