Collegium Helveticum (Zurich)
www.collegium.ethz.ch/en/
Collegium Helveticum was founded in 1997 as a forum for dialog between the natural and engineering sciences
with social sciences, humanities and the arts. Its mission is to develop novel perspectives concerning the
"big questions" of science and society, to implement them in interdisciplinary research projects, and to disseminate
the results in public outreach programs. Collegium Helveticum is jointly operated by the University of Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
at Zurich, and the Zurich University of the Arts.
Center for Consciousness Studies (Tucson, Arizona)
www.consciousness.arizona.edu
The Center for Consciousness Studies (CCS) at the University of Arizona is a leading institution for the study of mind-brain relationships.
It was founded in 1998 by University of Arizona faculty including Stuart Hameroff and David Chalmers, funded by the Fetzer Institute,
and is known worldwide for organizing the biennial conference "Toward a Science of Consciousness".
CCS also facilitates interdisciplinary consciousness research from the perspectives of philosophy, cognitive sciences, neuroscience,
the social sciences, medicine, the physical sciences, arts and humanities.
Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science (Munich/Oxford)
amcs-community.org/
The Association for Mathematical Consciousness Science is
an international association of scientists and philosophers devoted to
mathematical topics in the scientific study of consciousness. It aims
to further the development of mathematical approaches in the
scientific study of consciousness.
The AMCS is seated at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy
and the Mathematical Institute at Oxford University.
Institute for Prospective Cognition (Normal, Illinois)
https://about.illinoisstate.edu/ipc/
The Institute for Prospective Cognition is an international, interdisciplinary innovation located at the premises of Illinois State University at Normal (IL). It is devoted to the scholarly investigation of the forward-looking nature of human cognition and the means by which it emerges and expresses itself within individual consciousness, group communication and cultural sustainment.
Mind-Dust Group (Munich)
www.geiststaub.de/
The Mind-Dust Group is a group of philosophers, mathematicians and physicists with a focus on ontology and metaphysics. Their main areas of
interest are analytic metaphysics, philosophy of language and mind, and philosophy of physics and mathematics. The notion "mind-dust" is due to
William James and expresses the idea that mental properties are characteristic of every state of reality, all the way down to even the
most fundamental particles. This concept is known under different names, such as panpsychism, panprotopsychism or panexperientialism. The
Mind-Dust Group was established in 2009 and is based at the Munich School of Philosophy.
Laveman and Associates (New Hope, Pennsylvania)
www.lavemanassociates.com/
Laveman & Associates partners with companies and senior-level executives to enhance their capabilities and extend leadership skills.
One of their interests is to study the conditions under which the performance of companies can be improved through serendipitous synergies,
a phenomenon well documented in selected examples such as drug design. A key tenet by president Dave Laveman is that this innovative kind
of research will profit from considering current research concerning mind-matter relations.
Ecological Engineering Association (Augsburg)
www.ioev.de/en/home.html
Ecological engineering deals with the systematic and long-term oriented design,
operation and management of ecosystems. The focus of this approach is on ecosystems
which are greatly influenced or inhabited by humans. It relates directly to the quote
by Gregory Bateson, prompting us to minimize the "difference between how nature works
and the way people think." The association was founded in 1993 and supports projects
in Europe, Asia and Africa.
