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● Philosophy -- Philosophy of Abstraction. Ontological/Epistemological distinction. Thoughtvs Reality. Generalization vs Contextuality.● Theoretical Physics: Space, Time, Dimension, Force, Wave Functions, Operators, Fields,Strings etc., Are they real? Transition/Correspondence between theories and reality. Varioustangled loops and circular definitions at the foundations of Science.● Mathematics: Magnitude -- Number, Sets, Classes, Functions, Abstract mathematicalstructures/objects, Platonism and various schools of thought.● Information Theory/ Computing/Logic: Information is everything. Aspects of computabilityand undecidability in our very map (Theories and Constructs) and how far they leak into theterritory (reality).● Biology/Cognitive Science: Perception -- how our map of the territory and thereby the veryterritory itself is fenced by the evolution. Brain/Mind and the extent they let us patch thereality with percepts. Map and Territory, an illusion? From a cognitive viewpoint.List of authors who have accepted: (* = tentative) · Ian Stewart, University of Warwick, England.  · William G Unruh, University of British Columbia, Canada.  · Gregory Chaitin, IBM and his wife Virginia Chaitin.  · Simon Saunders (*), Oxford University, Oxford.  · Simon Kochen(*), Princeton University.  · Marcelo Gleiser, Professor of physics at Dartmouth.   · José Acacio de Barros, Associate professor at San Francisco State.  · Tian Yu Cao, Boston University.  · David Wolpert, Santa Fe Institute.  · Vlatko Vedral, University of Oxford.  · Edward Slowik, Winona State University, USA. < · Steven Weinstein, University of Waterloo.  · Eors Szathmary, Munich and Eötvös University.  · Barry Dainton, University of Liverpool.  · John Searle (*), University of California.