Persistence: Complexity Science, Information Theory, and the Study of Mind

Persistence: Complexity Science, Information Theory, and the Study of Mind is an inaugural interdisciplinary symposium exploring deep questions at the boundary of physics, computation, and cognitive science. Held on July 18, 2026, the event brings together researchers from complexity theory, thermodynamics, information theory, and philosophy of mind to examine how emergent phenomena and information processing shape conscious experience. Key themes include integrated information theory, the thermodynamics of computation, attractor dynamics in neural systems, and formal models of persistence and memory. The symposium encourages speculative but rigorous cross-disciplinary dialogue that challenges the boundaries of current scientific paradigms. It aims to seed a long-term collaborative inquiry into the nature of mind as a complex information-processing system.