Recordings from the Opening Summit meeting March 2022

Lightning Talks

Thursday 3 March 2022 (name of presenter followed by time the talk begins in the recording)

  1. Love: Welcome and Introduction. 00:00
  2. Newman: Cellular agency in multicellular development and cancer. 07:26
  3. Lowe: The genetic basis of macroevolutionary trends. 28:34
  4. Oderberg: Mistakes in living systems: a new conceptual framework. 48:34
  5. Livnat: Mutation rates, variational specificity, and long-term directionality in the genome. 1:09:27
  6. Soto: Intrinsic purposiveness and the shaping of development. 1:32:52
  7. Goldstein: Physical aspects of early multicellular development. 1:50:19
  8. Bourrat: Transitions in individuality: from ecology to teleonomy. 2:14:09
  9. Moreno: Integration and individuation in the origin of agency. 2:29:27 

 

Friday 4 March 2022

  1. Donoghue: Chance versus purpose in the evolution of biospheres. 00:21
  2. Barker: Geofunctions: purposes and agents in global environmental sciences. 20:00
  3. El-Hani: Toward a science of intrinsic purposiveness: an organizational account of ecological functions and its implications to ecological research and environmental ethics. 39:21
  4. Sterner: Dynamic linear modeling to unlock new tests of directionality in fossil lineages. 1:00:35
  5. Adams: Emergent intrinsic motivations in intelligent collectives. 1:22:42
  6. Allen: Natural selection for collective purpose. 1:41:41
  7. Masel: Universal principles of evolutionary adaptation. 2:03:24
  8. Ågren and Patten: The paradox of the organism. 2:23:43
     

Saturday 5 March 2022

  1. Skillings: Directedness in the physiology, ecology and evolution of holobiont systems. 00:26
  2. Watson: How exploratory and selective developmental mechanisms generate facilitated variation, confer agency on organisms and impose purpose on evolution. 27:37
  3. Uller: Evolution and organismal goal-directedness: toward an explanatory agenda. 42:42
  4. Reydon: Agency and agential explanation in the evolutionary sciences. 1:03:28
  5. Snell-Rood: 'Function' in biology and bio-inspired design. 1:28:53
  6. Garson: Putting representations back into goal-directedness. 1:53:18
  7. Pocheville: Open-ended evolution and organisational closure. 2:14:03
  8. Rosslenbroich: Features of autonomy in human evolution. 2:30:26

 

Breakout Groups

Please note: The video recordings have been edited to remove extraneous content, and where possible to enhance the audio. In the case where a breakout room was created within Zoom, there is no recording of that breakout conversation.

Thursday (3 March 2022) early afternoon

Thursday late afternoon

Friday (4 March 2022) early afternoon

Friday late afternoon

Saturday (5 March 2022) early afternoon

Saturday late afternoon