This Crystalpunk Bonanza brings together a select group of scientists and artists whose work (perhaps without their own awareness) has proven inspiring for the Crystalpunk search for the origins of basic things: where do life, thought, language, and computers really come from?

Speakers include: artificial intelligence expert Luc Steels on his research into the origin of language; logician Bruno Marchal on the world as a computer; literary historian Florian Cramer on the hermetic origins of software; programmer-artists Martin Howse and Jonathan Kemp on the origins of the CPU; and chaos theorist Otto Rössler on endophysics, or physics from the inside.

This event is organized by socialfiction.org and Impakt.
www.impakt.nl / www.socialfiction.org
The working language is English.