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3 Reasons Why You Should Care About Category Theory

Hayato Saigo

Prof

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology

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Friday, November 5, 2021

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Friday, November 5, 2021

3:00 PM Australia/Melbourne

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Host: Asia Pacific Consciousness Network

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Neuroscience

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Asia Pacific Consciousness Network

Duration

90 minutes

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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Hayato Saigo

Prof

Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology

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