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To Be Announced February 14
February 28, 2023 - April 19, 2023 open to submissionsFetzer Franklin Fund, and The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
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Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability Essay Contest
December 24, 2019 - April 24, 2020Fetzer Franklin Fund, and The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
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What Is “Fundamental”
October 28, 2017 to January 22, 2018The Fetzer Franklin Fund, and The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation
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Wandering Towards a Goal
How can mindless mathematical laws give rise to aims and intention?
December 2, 2016 to March 3, 2017The Peter and Patricia Gruber Fund
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Trick or Truth: The Mysterious Connection Between Physics and MathematicsNanotronics Imaging, The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, and John Templeton Foundation
Media Partner: Scientific American
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How Should Humanity Steer the Future?
January 9, 2014 - August 31, 2014The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, and Scientific American
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It From Bit or Bit From It
March 25 - June 28, 2013The Gruber Foundation, John Templeton Foundation, and Scientific American
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Questioning the Foundations
Which of Our Basic Physical Assumptions Are Wrong?
May 24 - August 31, 2012The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation, SubMeta, and Scientific American
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Is Reality Digital or Analog?
November 2010 - February 2011The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation and Scientific American
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What's Ultimately Possible in Physics?
May - October 2009Astrid and Bruce McWilliams
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The Nature of Time
August - December 2008read/discuss
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