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3 Reasons Why You Should Care About Category Theory

Applied Mathematics seminar by Prof Hayato Saigo, Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology

Hosted by Asia Pacific Consciousness Network

Friday 15:00–16:30 Melbourne (GMT+11)

Recording available

Nagahama, Shiga, Japan · Hybrid

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Abstract

Category theory is a branch of mathematics which have been used to organize various regions of mathematics and related sciences from a radical “relation-first” point of view. Why consciousness researchers should care about category theory? " "There are (at least) 3 reasons:" "1 Everything is relational" "2 Everything is relation" "3 Relation is everything" "In this talk we explain the reasons above more concretely and introduce the ideas to utilize basic concepts in category theory for consciousness studies.

Topics

basic conceptscategory theoryconsciousnessmathematical organizationrelational structures

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