IPI Lectures

IPI lecture, 4 July 2026 - Yuri Kadin 

Second law of info-dynamics and the language diversity decline  

The recently formulated second law of infodynamics manifests itself in multiple physical systems, indicating the fundamental nature of this law. In some cases, the second law of infodynamics can be interpreted in terms of minimum energy principle, while in other cases the mechanisms that lead to a decrease in information entropy are practically impossible to understand. We propose a new metaphysical principle, termed "the majority swallows the minority" and explain why the Shannon's informational entropy decreases due to this principle. As an example of the this principle application, the well-known phenomenon of the decline in linguistic diversity is considered; unlike other phenomena, the mechanisms associated with the decline and extinction of human languages ​​are well understood. This allows us to develop a simple mathematical model which reflects the aforementioned principle ("the majority swallows the minority”). 

Speaker: Yuri Kadin, SKF, The Netherlands.

IPI lecture, 2 May 2026 - Efthimios Harokopos 

AI Window of Opportunity        

Laypeople think of artificial intelligence (AI) as a recent achievement, but the truth is that it has been an objective of mankind for hundreds of years and became possible due to a series of small singularities that aim at a final singularity, which is called artificial superintelligence (ASI). This presentation will cover the technological and financial developments that made AI possible. We argue that to understand AI, we need to first understand philosophy and epistemic theories of truth. We attempt to establish a connection between Fitch’s paradox of knowability and ASI, asserting that the ultimate goal of AI can only be realized if moderate anti-realism is true. Finally, if ASI is reached, there will be a window of opportunity for humanity to escape replacement by machines and extinction. Preparations for integrating advanced AI into human life must begin now.

Speaker: Efthimios Harokopos, https://digitalcosmology.wordpress.com/ Greece.

IPI lecture, 4 April 2026 - Ali Eslami 

Extending the simulation hypothesis through the lens of efficiency       

This talk aims to present an extension to Nick Bostrom's simulation hypothesis and proposes a speculative purpose for that simulation: that our reality may be an artificial superintelligence (ASI) alignment sandbox. Building upon Bostrom’s original argument, I address key counter-arguments, particularly regarding computational feasibility. To resolve these challenges, I introduce the Efficient Simulation Theory and a corresponding architecture, Quantum Diffusion. This framework establishes a Middle-out hierarchical rendering system that maintains unobserved regions in latent indeterminacy, resolving them into definite states on demand. Without altering the established mathematical predictions of standard physics, the framework offers a computational meta-interpretation of otherwise enigmatic features, drawing simulation-supporting parallels from theoretical physics.   

Speaker: Ali Eslami, USA.

IPI lecture, 28 Feb. 2026 - Boris Kriger 

The Tree-Top Meta-Method: Deriving Structural Necessities Across Physical, Cognitive, and Social Systems        

This talk introduces the Tree-Top Meta-Method, a vertical strategy of inquiry designed to identify structural necessities that must hold for any distinguishable and persistent system. Beginning from well-established anchors in physics, mathematics, and dynamical theory, the method ascends to a discovered limit of generalisation and then descends to derive cross-domain constraints. The resulting unified structural framework shows how persistence, closure, boundary maintenance, resilience, and viability sets manifest across physical systems, cognition, and social dynamics. Selected applications include predictive processing, computational psychiatry, information physics, astrophysics, and AI systems.   

Speaker: Boris Kriger, Institute of Integrative and Interdisciplinary Research, Canada.

IPI lecture, 15 Feb. 2026 - Efthimios Harokopos 

The Virtual Reality Hypothesis: From Parmenides to Einstein and Beyond       

The nature of reality has puzzled philosophers and scientists since antiquity. We provide a historical account of how various philosophers and scientists have addressed fundamental issues regarding the nature of reality, starting from the Eleatics, through seventeenth-century rationalists and empiricists, to Einstein’s significant revisions of space and time concepts, and finally to contemporary theories, including the simulation hypothesis. We emphasize the fact that scientific inquiry since the time of Isaac Newton has struggled to salvage the reality and autonomy of the world, but it is debatable whether it has been successful. We propose a reality hypothesis based on Cartesian occasionalism, suggesting alternative motion laws that may align with the virtual reality hypothesis, along with a potential corroborating experiment.  

Speaker: Efthimios Harokopos, https://digitalcosmology.wordpress.com/ Greece.

IPI webinar, 13 Dec. 2025 - Melvin M. Vopson 

Strategies for Publishing a Science Article       

Publishing a science article can be a challenging yet rewarding process. In this webinar, we will explore effective strategies to enhance your chances of success in scientific publishing. From selecting the right journal and crafting a compelling manuscript to navigating the peer review process and understanding copyright and IP considerations, this session will provide actionable insights for researchers at all stages of their publishing journey, but it is particularly useful to those new to the scientific publishing. This webinar will help you understand the key steps and best practices for getting your research published not only in the IPI Letters, but also in any other science journal. 

Speaker: Melvin M. Vopson, University of Portsmouth & Information Physics Institute, UK.

IPI lecture, 22 Nov. 2025 - Peter Michael Stastny 

The Simulation Theory: A New Perspective on Physical Reality       

The Simulation Theory proposes an intuitive framework that unifies the major pillars of modern physics — relativity, quantum mechanics, and cosmology — through the concept of an underlying informational substrate. Rather than treating mass, time dilation, and entanglement as independent phenomena, it interprets them as emergent effects of how a simulated space is rendered to conscious observers. This perspective provides intuitive explanations for relativistic time dilation, quantum superposition, and even cosmological expansion, without invoking additional constructs such as dark matter or dark energy. By linking the foundations of physics to the principles of information and consciousness, the Simulation Theory aspires to offer a coherent, testable, and conceptually accessible model of physical reality.

Speaker: Peter Michael Stastny,  Benteler Automotive, Germany.

IPI lecture, 25 Oct. 2025 - Danny Goler 

Cognitive Physics and The New Horizon of Knowledge      

We study the world from first principles. One of the most dominant first principles in science is reductionism; we assume that the building blocks of things are more fundamental than the things they make. But what if the Universe doesn’t follow this principle? What if the different levels of emergence are not stacked on one another but are an expression of the same principle across different domains of existence? What if what precedes something is less important than what becomes possible once something exists? This presentation will explore this idea and show that reframing what we believe ourselves to be might be a fundamental component of the physical story of the Universe.

Speaker: Danny Goler,  Code of Reality (COR), www.codeofreality.com, USA.

IPI lecture, 27 Sept. 2025 - Jeffrey Thompson 

Modifying Autonomic Homeostasis with Precise Sound Frequencies for Healing and Focused Meditation States      

Dr Thompson's patented Bio-Tuning® process represents a groundbreaking advancement in the fields of integrative health, neuroscience, and consciousness studies. At its core is a proprietary, real-time Heart Rate Variability (HRV) monitoring system that enables the precise delivery of sound frequencies uniquely tailored to each individual’s nervous system—unlocking deep healing, emotional balance, and expanded states of awareness. Unlike generalized sound healing approaches, Bio-Tuning® uses continuous HRV biofeedback to track subtle shifts in autonomic nervous system function. This is not just entrainment - it’s entrainment tuned to you, moment by moment.

Speaker: Jeffrey Thompson,  The Center for Neuroacoustic Research, USA.

IPI lecture, 30 Aug. 2025 - Rulin Xiu

A Holographic Quantum Theory of Consciousness: How Human Consciousness Manifests Natural Laws and Phenomena     

Two of the most fundamental questions in quantum science are:

How does a physical object such as the brain generate conscious experience? and

How does consciousness affect or even create the phenomena we observe?

In this presentation, Dr Xiu will introduce a holographic quantum theory of consciousness that addresses both. The framework proposes that the basic constituents of human consciousness are two fundamental pairs of dualities: change–unchange and inclusion–exclusion. From these, she derives the holographic action—the mathematical expression for the maximum amount of information created by consciousness. This action leads naturally to the hologram formula, which describes the possible information, energy, and matter that human consciousness can manifest. 

Speaker: Rulin Xiu, Hawaii Theoretical Physics Research Center, USA.

IPI lecture, 26 July 2025 - Doug Matzke

Existons: The math of Topological bits supports simulation hypothesis and discrete unit of consciousness    

Quantum Doug Matzke discovered in Dec 2024 that hyperbits support the Dirac Spinors used to represent the standard model (a spinor squared is a vector). Quite unexpectedly in March 2025, he developed the new name for my hyperbits, as "Existons", the primary unit of computational existence. He is trying to understand the significance of Existons, since they represent a "mathematical panpsychism", such that consciousness is ubiquitous even at the electrons/photons/quantum foam Planck levels, since is tied to the math of spacelike hyperbits. Mathematics of hyperbit physics is fundamentally important to support the "simulation hypothesis" as well as solving the "hard problem of consciousness". This Existons story is still unfolding so see more talks at www.existons.one website. 

Speaker: Doug Matzke, www.QuantumDoug.com, USA.

IPI lecture, 28 June 2025 - Yannick-Leon Kardeis 

Universal Fractal Chirality of Riemann Zeta Function   

In this talk, Yannick presents the key findings of his paper on The Universal Fractal Chirality of Riemann Zeta Function. The presentation includes a concise summary and interpretation of the results, as well as insights into how disciplines such as mathematics, chemistry, and physics are interwoven through the language of geometry. 

Speaker: Yannick-Leon Kardeis, Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau.

IPI lecture, 24 May 2025 - Florian Neukart

Gravity and the Fabric of Information: Exploring the Geometry-Information Duality  

What if gravity is not only shaped by energy and matter but also by information? In this talk, Florian presents recent research introducing an informational stress-energy tensor derived from quantum entanglement entropy, which contributes directly to gravitational dynamics. This leads to calculable corrections to Newton’s constant and black hole masses, effects rooted in quantum information rather than classical fields. We will explore how this framework connects geometry and information at a fundamental level and what it could mean for our understanding of spacetime, cosmology, and the unification of physics. 

Speaker: Florian Neukart, Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science, and Chief Product Officer at Terra Quantum AG .

IPI lecture, 12 April 2025 - Shoshauna Gauvin 

Ricci Flow, Dual Affine Geometry, and Black Hole Thermodynamics  

Recent studies have demonstrated that entropy maximization can re-create classical and quantum dynamical laws akin to the principles of stationary action. This begs the question: can entropic dynamics reveal a richer structure to our universe. This presentation will introduce established theory of Ricci Flow, the geometric process that evolves Riemannian metrics. We introduce the works of Perelman’s W-Functional, the key insight that helped resolve the Poincare Conjecture which demonstrates how to manage or resolve singularities in a Riemannian Geometry. We apply these principles to Dual Affine Geometries that demonstrate novel results regarding black hole curvature evolution and more specifically the behavior of Black Hole Thermodynamics through a Ricci-Flow like relaxation process. 

Speaker: Shoshauna Gauvin , University of Waterloo, Canada.

IPI lecture, 8 Feb. 2025 - Tejinder Singh 

Do we live in a 6D space-time, and are the extra dimensions timelike?  

The E8 x E8 octonionic theory of unification suggests that our universe is six dimensional and that the two extra dimensions are timelike. This in principle offers an explanation of the quantum nonlocality puzzle, also known as the EPR paradox. Quantum systems access all six dimensions whereas classical systems such as detectors experience only four dimensions. Therefore, correlated quantum events which are timelike separated in 6D can appear to be spacelike separated, and hence nonlocal, when projected to 4D. Our lack of awareness of the extra timelike dimensions creates the illusion of nonlocality whereas in reality the communication obeys special relativity and is local. In principle, this idea can be tested experimentally.     

Speaker: Tejinder Singh, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India.

IPI lecture, 11 Jan. 2025 - Clifford Ellgen

Knot Physics: Particle Knots and Entropic Dynamics 

Knot Physics is a geometric approach to quantum gravity. Many theories of quantum gravity attempt to make general relativity into a particle theory. By contrast, Knot Physics makes quantum field theory into a geometric theory. To accomplish this, we assume that spacetime is a branched manifold that is embedded in a higher dimensional space. The manifold can be knotted, and those knots are elementary particles. The branches of the spacetime manifold are under-constrained. Subject to constraints, branch behavior maximizes entropy. We show how entropy maximization produces all the forces with their corresponding gauge groups. In addition, there is a natural relationship between quantum and classical behavior that is mediated by entropy maximization.    

Speaker: Clifford Ellgen, Ordinal Research Institute, USA.

IPI lecture, 7 Dec. 2024 - Gary Vetro 

How the Brain Works 

After a decade of helping take care of and studying a dementia patient, taking care of and studying an autistic child, learning about neuroscience, and auditing the information flow of a three thousand person government agency, it all came together in a theory of the emergence of consciousness and how it works with the chemical electric computer we call the brain.     

Speaker: Gary Vetro, Information Physics Institute, USA.

IPI lecture, 30 Nov. 2024 - Daniel Boyd

Information/Physics from the perspective of Emergent Information Theory 

Throughout the history of humanity much attention has been paid to the remarkable characteristics of the human mind or soul, how these differ from those of the material world, and the relationship between the two. Emergent Information Theory claims that this riddle, as formulated in Chalmers’ Hard Problem, is far bigger; that it includes all biological and technological systems with informational functions. It proposes a form of naturalistic substance dualism in which these systems create a dimension outside of the physical realm in which this substance exists and the strongly emergent processes underlying these functions take place according to their own natural laws. This information dimension is home to everything from lofty phenomenal consciousness to the lowly binary value associated with a bit state. In this talk I will present the rationale and evidence for this conclusion, and invite my audience to engage in discussion about its strengths and weaknesses.    

Speaker: Daniel Boyd, International Society for the Study of Information, Netherlands.

IPI lecture, 9 Nov. 2024 - Thomas Bradley

The Laws of Physics Embodied by Fundamental Replicators: Exploring Femes

The fine-tuning problem addresses the arbitrary form of physical laws within an immense combinatorial space of possibilities, leaving the specific form of the laws unexplained. While evolution accounts for the consistent form of DNA, we propose that other abstract replicators—the ‘femes’—are responsible for the transformations described by the laws of physics. This talk will delve into the concept of femes and how the conjecture of their existence extends directly from constructor theory, information theory, and universal Darwinism. We then describe their role in shaping physical laws, present five falsifiable predictions from this conjecture, and discuss the implications for our understanding of the second law of infodynamics.   

Speaker: Thomas Bradley, Clann Ltd. UK.

IPI lecture, Sept. 2024 - Melvin M. Vopson

Introducing the Second Law of Infodynamics and its Implications

The second law of infodynamics establishes a link between the Shannon’s Information Entropy, the thermodynamic entropy of a system and its time evolution to equilibrium. It states that an isolated system moves to equilibrium in a way that the entropy of its information states decreases, or remains constant at equilibrium. This new law of physics is formulated in analogy to the second law of thermodynamics, which requires the entropy of the physical states to evolve exactly in the opposite direction, increasing or remaining constant over time. In this talk I will detail the research steps taken to formulate this new law, followed by a discussion of its implications to physics, science overall and the universe.  

Speaker: Dr. Melvin M. Vopson, University of Portsmouth and Information Physics Institute.

IPI lecture, July 2024 - Michael L. Wong

An informational perspective of life  

Information processing is a central feature of life and may be the key to developing bio-signatures that are capable of detecting life as we do not know it. First, I will describe how concepts that we generally associate with the field of data science are strikingly descriptive of the way that life, in general, processes information about its environment. Second, I will explore how the topologies of atmospheric chemical reaction networks of Solar System bodies are distinct from one another, with potential applications to exoplanet bio-signatures. Third, I will show how a robust method that combines pyrolysis–GC–MS measurements of a wide variety of terrestrial and extraterrestrial carbonaceous materials with machine-learning-based classification to achieve ~90% accuracy in the differentiation between samples of abiotic origins vs. biotic specimens. Fourth, I will propose a new time-asymmetric law that states that the functional information of a system will increase over time when subjected to selection for function(s).  

Speaker: Dr. Michael L. Wong, NHFP Sagan Fellow at the Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth & Planets Laboratory.

IPI lecture, May 2024 - Szymon Łukaszyk

Assembly Theory of Bitstrings 

Bit is the smallest amount and the quantum of information. We used assembly theory to investigate the assembly pathways of binary strings of length N formed by joining bits present in the assembly pool and the bitstrings that entered the pool as a result of previous joining operations. The bitstring assembly index (the smaller amount of steps required to assembly a bitstring of length N) is bounded from below by the shortest addition chain for N. We define the degree of causation for the minimum assembly index that happened to reveal regularities for certain N that can be used to determine the length of the shortest addition chain for N. We explored the idea of assembling bitstrings by other bitstrings (binputation) and it turned that a bitstring with the smallest assembly index for N can be assembled by a binary program of length equal to this index if the length of this bitstring is expressible as a product of Fibonacci numbers. The results confirm that four Planck areas provide a minimum information capacity that corresponds to a minimum thermodynamic (Bekenstein-Hawking) entropy. Furthermore, the upper bound hints at the role of dissipative structures and collective, in particular human, intelligence in this evolution. 

Speaker: Dr. Szymon Łukaszyk, Łukaszyk Patent Attorneys.

IPI lecture, Feb. 2024 - Emily Adlam

Are Entropy Bounds Epistemic? 

Entropy bounds have played an important role in the development of holography as an approach to quantum gravity. In this talk I will introduce the strong and covariant entropy bounds, and then discuss how the covariant bound should be interpreted. I will argue that there is a possible way of thinking about the covariant entropy bound which would suggest that it encodes an epistemic limitation rather than an objective count of the true number of degrees of freedom on a light-sheet; thus I will distinguish between ontological and epistemic interpretations of the covariant bound. I will consider the consequences that these interpretations might have for physics and discuss what each approach has to say about gravitational phenomena. My aim is not to advocate for either the ontological or epistemic approach in particular, but rather to articulate both possibilities clearly and explore some arguments for and against them. 

Speaker: Dr. Emily Adlam, Chapman University.

IPI lecture, Dec. 2023 - Donatello Dolce

On the Cyclic Nature of Time and the Consequent Exact Derivation of Quantum Mechanics from Classical-Relativistic Physics 

We have proven, with mathematical certainty and in several independent ways, the exact equivalence between the classical statistical description of ultra-fast harmonic dynamics and quantum mechanics. The equivalence has been rigorously confirmed in: canonical quantization, Feynman quantization, second quantization, and successfully verified for non-trivial quantum phenomena of condensed matter and high energy physics. The non-trivial topology of the theory has revealed a further remarkable result: the principle of relativistic covariance directly yields gauge interaction, without postulating gauge invariance, as much as gravitational interaction. All these independent results constitute an abundant amount of unequivocal evidence to postulate the intrinsic periodicity of elementary systems as the fundamental classical principle at the base of quantum mechanics. That is, the whole plethora of quantum phenomena turns out to be fully conciliated, in a fully unified description, with the principle of classical-relativistic physics, provided the introduction of a cyclic nature for the relativistic time. 

Speaker: Prof. Donatello Dolce, University of Camerino.

IPI lecture, Sept. 2023 - Andrei Khrennikov

Modelling social lasing by using the mathematical formalism of quantum theory 

Social phenomena can be modelled on the basis of the recently developed social laser theory. This theory can be used to model stimulated amplification of coherent social actions. ``Actions” are treated very generally, from mass protests to votes and other collective decisions, as, e.g., acceptance (often unconscious) of some societal recommendations. 

Speaker: Prof. Andrei Khrennikov, Linnaeus University.

IPI lecture, May 2023 - Bormashenko Edward

Fibonacci Sequences, Symmetry and Order in Biological Patterns, Their Sources, Information Origin and the Landauer Principle 

Physical, informational roots, exemplifications and consequences of periodic and aperiodic ordering (represented by Fibonacci series) in biological systems are discussed. The physical, informational and biological roots and role of symmetry and asymmetry appearing in biological patterns are addressed. The “top-down” and “bottom-up” approaches to the explanation of symmetry in organisms are presented and discussed in detail. The “top-down” approach implies that the symmetry of the biological structure follows the symmetry of the media in which this structure is functioning; the “bottom-up” approach, in turn, accepts that the symmetry of biological structures emerges from the symmetry of molecules constituting the structure. Informational/algorithmic roots of order inherent in the biological systems are considered. The application of the Landauer principle bridging physics and theory of information to the biological systems is discussed. 

Speaker: Prof. Bormashenko Edward, Ariel University.

IPI Easter lecture 2023 - Vitaly Vanchurin

Neuromorphic Computing: from theory to practice

There are billions of organisms on Earth, that came into existence via biological evolution. For all practical purposes these organisms can be considered as computers, but what is exactly their architecture? Do they have the classical von Neumann architecture or is there something else that we can identify and, perhaps, use for developing better computers? Do they use quantum effects or quantum computation, or all such effects are irrelevant for computations performed on the macroscopic scales of individual organisms? In this talk, Prof. Vitaly Vanchurin explains the recent theoretical advances in physics, biology and machine learning that could lead to the development of a new generation of neuromorphic computers.  

Speaker: Dr. Vitaly Vanchurin, Founder & CEO at Artificial Neural Computing.

IPI spring lecture 2023 - Trevor Page

Beyond the veil of common sense - A logical view of nature 

A simple deduced model of common sense and the process of “making sense” is presented. Several examples of irrationality due to common sense bias are identified within the fields of mathematics, science, philosophy, and religion. A series of logical proofs for the origin of the universe and its fundamental quantum nature are delivered. Preliminary expressions of the universe are developed (relative expressions of |1|), revealing what are purported to be the foundational quantum informational structures of nature. These structures, of which there are apparently 72! instances, are presumed to underpin and support the standard model, either as it currently stands, or at least future revisions of it. 

Speaker: Trevor Page, Research Fellow of the Information Physics Institute.

IPI Christmas lecture 2022 - Doug Matzke

Bit-Physics: How to bootstrap the universe using topological bits 

The key to understanding bit-physics are the twin concepts: 1) "bits are physical" (Landauer's principle) thus effecting the physical universe; 2) "bits are protophysical" (Matzke's principle), which means that the topological mathematics supporting hyperdimensional bits is fundamental to the structure of the multiverse.

Speaker: Dr Doug Matzke, a.k.a. Quantum Doug. 

www.QuantumDoug.com