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You're already in the conversation. Here are concrete references for what CSCSC is working on — and the perspectives that anchor it.

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Core Perspectives

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Why Honest Science is Spiritual

A complexity view on scientific research itself: how rigorous inquiry, done sincerely, becomes a spiritual endeavor.

Pavel Chvykov

Read the essay →

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Ecology, Complexity, and the Trinity

How a relational ontology naturally necessitates complexity science and ecological thinking.

Robert Marsland

Read on Substack →

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Living Things Are Not Machines

Agency, goal-directedness, and intelligence as causal explanations at every biological scale — making formal, empirical research of intentionality and awareness possible without abandoning scientific explanation.

Michael Levin

Read on Noema →

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Beyond Computational Models of Mind

The limits of mind-as-computation, pointing toward frameworks that honor both contemplative wisdom and scientific rigor.

Jager, Riedl, Djedovic, Vervaeke, Walsh

Read on Frontiers →

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🎥 Watch the community think

Keynotes from our inaugural CSCSC conference:

Michael Levin (Tufts) — CSCSC keynote

Michael Levin (Tufts) — CSCSC keynote

Gary Lupyan (Wisconsin) — CSCSC keynote

Gary Lupyan (Wisconsin) — CSCSC keynote

🔭 What we're working on

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Research Programs — current and emerging research directions, our core questions, and active projects.

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• Working groups: Telics (toward a science of goals) and Foundations of Causality.
• Embodied reading group: workshopping new ways to think and discuss together while staying connected to our embodied truth (e.g., “I’m feeling tense because I notice I want to be right”)
• Honest Science Workshop — our September 2026 research-intensive in France.

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