Para Limes Conference “Illusion of Control” hosted in Stockholm, May 15-17, 2023

The international conference Illusion of Control will be held on May 15th – 17th, 2023 at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, and hosted by Para Limes, the Beijer Institute, Arizona State University, and Princeton University. The conference is focused around human overestimation of the degree in which we are able to control events. Most humans perceive to be in control of the real world, but see only a reduced reality, that, in time, space and complexity, is only a minuscule part of an infinite world. That world is loaded with an immeasurable number of connected cause and effect relationships, that all, in some way, affect every individual on this planet.

Speakers include: Daniel Brooks, Emeritus professor – University of Toronto; Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Princeton University; Sean Cleary, Chairman Strategic Concepts, managing director for Centre of advanced Governance; Liesbeth Feikema, Integrity and integrality expert, Darwin on the Job, Ethics Institute Utrecht University; Atsushi Iriki, Laboratory for Symbolic Cognitive Development, Riken, Japan; Bilahari Kausikan, Former permanent secretary Ministry of Foreign affairs Singapore; Helga Nowotny, Emeritus professor, ex-president European Research Council; Nick Obolensky, Chief Executive Officer, Complex Adaptive Leadership; Gert van Santen, Ex World Bank and FAO fishery specialist; Terry Sejnowski, Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies; Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow Asia Global Institute, Hong Kong; Sander van der Leeuw, Emeritus Professor Anthropology and Sustainability, Arizona State University.

More information is available here.