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Larry Goldberg is a philosopher of science
interested in the implications of complexity for interdisciplinary
collaboration in scientific research and education, policy analysis,
technology and business development, and worldview development. The primary
insight that has guided his career is that the greater the interdependence
between different domains of concern, whether those of different scientific
disciplines or educational departments, impact experts and values judges in
policy analysis contexts, developer and client or marketing perspectives in
business, or scientific and spiritual perspectives in the quest for a more
coherent contemporary philosophy, the deeper the collaboration required to
address issues that cut across the specialized interests involved. The fruit
of this insight has been his development of a general interdisciplinary
methodology useful in analyzing, facilitating, and coordinating
institutional responses to complexity.
He has applied his interdisciplinary methodology to program development at
the University of California, San Diego, and the San Diego Supercomputer
Center; Texas A & M University; the National Center for Atmospheric
Research; and the Boulder, Colorado Springs, and Health Sciences campuses of
the University of Colorado. He has designed undergraduate, graduate, and
postgraduate programs in global change, computational science and
engineering, and bioethics; organized and coordinated studies of the health
effects and policy implications of Denver’s air pollution; coordinated a
collaborative online educational technology initiative of computer
scientists, space scientists, and science and medical educators; and served
as program committee chair of annual conferences on Science and Spirituality
at the Iliff School of Theology and the University of Denver.
He has been an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Lamar University and a
Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs, an Instructor of Philosophy at Metropolitan State College,
and an Instructor of Philosophy, Experimental Studies, and Mathematics at
the University of Colorado, Boulder. In the business world, he has been a
consultant in strategic planning and engineering development in the
nanotechnology and IT industries; managed and directed communications in the
biotech and healthcare industries; applied his complex systems perspective
to technical writing and business analysis in the IT, communications, and
healthcare industries; and designed and developed online business systems
for numerous clients.
His most recent research interest is in the possible implications of quantum
theory for brain function and conscious experience; and the potential
generalization of his analysis of the "quantum advantage" of conscious
systems to a theory of natural intelligence at many scales, from fundamental
particles or quantum fields to the entire cosmos, which provides an
alternative to both the common scientific assumption of the emergence of
consciousness with the evolution of sufficient complexity and the assumption
of many spiritual traditions that the realm of "pure" consciousness, love,
spirit, God, or the sacred is separable from and superior to material and
mental reality. It is his hope that a new, more unified, and more
compassionate worldview will provide a helpful context for the collaboration
of scientific and spiritual thinkers in facilitating a more socially and
ecologically responsible global civilization.
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