INCO 796: Cosmology and Our View of the World
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Summaries of Spring Semester 2008
in Chronological Order:

1. Session 1: Introductory Class
   (1/22/2008) No Summary

2. Session 2: Physical Cosmology
   Lead: Eberhard Möbius (1/29/2008)
   Summary #2. By Andrew Middleton

3. Session 3: Life as We Know it and its Evolution
   Lead: Thomas Davis (2/5/2008)
   Summary #3. By Lex Joy

4. Session 4: The Origin of Mind
   Lead: Willem deVries (2/12/2008)
   Summary #4. By Abigail Crocker

5. Session 5: Theory of Everything - Is complete unification possible?
   Lead: Brad Larsen & Adam Fitzpatrick (2/19/2008)
   Summary #5. By Alex DeJong

6. Session 6: Taking Science on Faith? - Problemsin Debates between Science & Religion
   Lead: Jeff Tessein & Rachel Ripperger (2/26/2008)
   Summary #6. By Adam Fitzpatrick

7. Session 7: What we See is only the Ising on the Cake - Dark Energy
   Lead: Alex Miklos & Lee Petersen (3/4/2008)
   Summary #7. By Jeff Tessein

8. Session 8: Multiple Universes - An Answer for us Being Here?
   Lead: Jacob Day (3/25/2008)
   Summary #8a. By Luke Gregory
   Summary #8b. By Rachel Ripperger

9.  Session 9: Intelligent design or Not so Intelligent Design
     Video about Intelligent Design (4/1/2008)
     No Summary
   
10.   Session 10: Intelligent design or Not so Intelligent Design - A Scientific Debate?
      Lead: Andrew Middleton (4/8/2008)
      Summary #10. By Brad Larsen
    
11.  Session 11: Consciousness, the Hard Problem - In search of the Self
     Lead: Abigail Crocker & Lex Joy (4/15/2008)
     Summary #11a. By Lee Petersen
     Summary #11b. By Brent Tardiff
    
12.   Session 12: Life in the Universe: Search for Life/Intelligence beyond Earth
      Lead: Brent Tardiff & Alex deJong (4/22/2008)
      Summary #12. By Austin Purves
    
13.  Session 13: Is Information an Irreducible Entity in the World?
      Lead: Austin Purves (4/29/2008)
      Summary #13. By Alex Miklos
    
14.  Session 14: How come existence? - Just a Theory or is there something else?
      Lead: Luke Gregory (5/6/2008)
      Summary #14. By Jacob Day