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EDU Research Themes - A Partial List

• Anthropic bias and observer selection effects.
• Anthropic, fine-tuning, and multiverse/ensemble models in cosmology.
• Acceleration studies at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Astrobiology, Fermi paradox, and SETI.
• Complexity, emergence, ergodicity, and nonlinear science models with organic and computational features.
• Computational models and analogies applied at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Computer science, cognitive science, and other models of intelligence at all systems scales.
• Cosmological natural selection (CNS) and CNS with a role for internal intelligence (CNS-I)
• Cosmology with organic and computational features.
• Directionality and convergent evolution in macrobiological systems.
• Evolutionary and developmental processes in evo-devo and theoretical biology.
• Evolutionary and developmental processes in non-biological systems (physical, chemical, cultural, technological).
• Hierarchy, modularity, and self-organization theory at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Information theory of evolution and development.
• Information theory at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Neural networks as paradigme to self-organization of complex networks.
• Non-equilibrium dissipative structures at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Philosophy with organic and computational features at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Scale invariance and self-similarity models at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Self-reference, iteration, and recursion models at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Statistical/probabilistic distributions and predictability at the universe and subsystem scales.
• Systems models relating physical, chemical, biological, cultural, and technological (PCBCT) subsystems
• Systems theory with organic and computational features.