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In this rare off-stage conversation at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, physicist and philosopher Professor Avshalom Elitzur (known for the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb problem and his work on time and consciousness) meets Professor Denis Noble (pioneer of systems biology and author of The Music of Life) between talks and debates.
Together they explore the frontiers where physics, biology, and philosophy of mind collide - questioning reductionism, the nature of causation, and whether science's biggest blind spots might hold its most important answers.
In this rare off-stage conversation at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival, physicist and philosopher Professor Avshalom Elitzur (known for the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb problem and his work on time and consciousness) meets Professor Denis Noble (pioneer of systems biology and author of The Music of Life) between talks and debates.
Together they explore the frontiers where physics, biology, and philosophy of mind collide - questioning reductionism, the nature of causation, and whether science's biggest blind spots might hold its most important answers.





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