Sunday, January 30, 2022

Nick Herbert on the underestimated importance of SLAC quantum research as part of ANPA or Alternative Natural Philosophy Association with Cambridge and Eddie Oshins

 In his best-selling book How the Hippies Saved Physics, MIT professor David Kaiser describes how the members of an informal, outside-the-mainstream research group in Berkeley (Elizabeth Rauscher's Fundamental Fyziks Group) were able to make significant advances in a then-unfashionable field (quantum foundations) which has since become a respectable and flourishing part of physics.

However, Kaiser failed to mention that along with Berkeley's FFG, a like-minded group at Stanford (ANPA West, founded by Stanford professor Pierre Noyes), was also enthusiastically exploring the once disreputable field of quantum foundations. ANPA (an acronym for Alternative Natural Philosophy Association) was organized by Cambridge physicist Ted Bastin and his friends. The "bible" of ANPA was a collection of essays edited by Bastin Quantum Theory and Beyond which featured papers by David Bohm, Yakir Aharonov, Geoffrey Chew as well as lesser-known quantum-edge explorers). ANPA East was centered in Cambridge while its Western focus was Pierre's group at Stanford.

http://quantumtantra.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-dinner-with-john-and-mary-bell_18.html 

 On Monday, Feb. 21, Eddie Oshins, visiting scholar in the physics department, will discuss "Technical Comments on Quantum Psychology and the Metalogic of Second Order Change."

  Alternative natural philosophers to debate foundations of science STANFORD -- The 10th annual meeting of the western regional chapter of the Alternative Natural Philosophers Association will be held at Stanford's Cordura Hall Feb. 19-21. 

 Oshins, E., and McGoveran, D. (February 1980). Thoughts About Logic About Thoughts. The Question: Schizophrenia? In Banathy, B. H. (Ed.). "Proceedings of the 24th Annual North American Meeting of the Society For General Systems Research, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco, CA Jan. 7-10, 1980". Louisville, KY: Systems Science Institute. OCLC Number 6263125.

 ANPA West meetings took place mainly in buildings in and around Stanford with an occasional trip into the redwoods to David McGoveran's house in Boulder Creek.

 Oshins, E., Adelson, D., McGoveran, D. (1982). Clarifying Fuzzy Logic: A Spectral Decomposition and Iconic Realization. (presented AAAS, 1980). In Gray, W. Fidler, J. & Battista, J. (Eds). "General Systems Theory and the Psychological Sciences. Vol. 2". Seaside, CA: Intersystems Publications. ISBN 978-0914105107 and ISBN 0914105108.

 

 Wow - PRE noncommutative analysis of Kauffman!!

1999

https://anpa.onl/anpa-west-1988-1997/

OK the journals are NOW online! I asked to see them before. Awesome.

 3 comments:

Jack Sarfatti said...

Yes I still have my copy of Quantum Theory and Beyond. I was at the 1974 Cambridge ANPA meeting hosted by Ted Bastin where I first met Brian Josephson and Bernard Car as well as Dennis Bardens of BBC and allegedly British Secret Service.

 

 

 

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