Welcome to FEST

“Fully Empirical Science and Technology” or “FEST” is a new research program aiming to bridge the gap between matter and mind. Inspired by the success of science in understanding matter, this program extends the same empirical methodology to study the mind. This requires developing new tools, partly inspired by philosophical and contemplative traditions of the past.

VALUES contains some thoughts on the nature of values

REALITY contains some musings on the nature of reality.

ABOUT contains a bio of Piet Hut, who started this website, with the intention to grow it out to a community effort.

(B)LOG will bring you to the FEST Log, hosted on Substack. To get a first taste of this Log, you can jump directly to the first entry, the ManiFESTo.

VIDEOS contains a selection of videos in which Piet Hut appears, to give a talk, or an interview, or plays a role in a panel.

ARTICLES contains a short selection of articles in which Piet Hut is one of the authors.

Currently missing is a CONTACT page. As soon as we build up a community infrastructure around FEST, we will provide such a page, hopefully soon.