Who participated in that conference?
A. This was a large conference with, I think, 50’ish, 50 or so invited speakers in it. It was one of the most eminent conferences that I have ever been to. The topic was The Nature of Nature. It was very widely construed. There were academicians there from a large variety of different disciplines. There were physicists there, such as Alan Guth (phonetic), who is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a professor of physics at MIT, discussing the nature of the universe, whether the universe is eternal, whether it is undergoing something that he calls inflation, or whether it began in time. There were conversations on that. There were philosophers who discussed the question of whether the mind is a physical object or whether it is not. There were mathematicians there to discuss the topic of whether the fit between mathematical theory and nature, which seems to, many of them, to be uncanny is unreasonable to expect or whether it is reasonable. And, of course, there were also peo
