Attila Grandpierre

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Attila Grandpierre
Grandpierre Attila.jpg
At Chapman University in 2011
Born
Grandpierre Attila

(1951-07-04) 4 July 1951 (age 72)
Budapest
NationalityHungarian
EducationEötvös Loránd University,
Fac. of Physics and Astronomy
Occupations
  • astrophysicist
  • musician (vocalist)
  • writer
  • poet
  • self-taught historian
Musical career
Genres
Instrument(s)vocals
Years active1975-present
Website http://www.grandpierre.hu/site/english/

Attila Grandpierre (Hungarian : Grandpierre Attila; born 4 July 1951) is a Hungarian musician, astrophysicist, physicist, self-taught historian, writer and poet. He is best known as leader/vocalist of the Galloping Coroners (Hungarian : Vágtázó Halottkémek), an original shamanic music band.

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Personal worldview

From his childhood on he was very interested in dealing with the Sun, the cosmos, music and the nature of life. As an adult he is looking for the answer whether the Universe does have a physical, biological or psychological nature. [1]

Life

Ancestry

Grandpierre's family name comes from French Huguenot ancestors, [2] according to family tradition, with some French bishops, of whom one, Louis Grandpierre, was a Swiss politician and president of the Swiss Appeal Court, [3] and another, Károly Grandpierre, a writer and consultant [4] of Lajos Kossuth, settled in Hungary.

Attila Grandpierre at age 30 in 1981 Grandpierre Attila 1981-ben.jpg
Attila Grandpierre at age 30 in 1981

Young years, family

Grandpierre was born in Hungary under the Soviet regime on 4 July 1951 in Budapest. His father, Endre Grandpierre K. was a writer and historian. His father's studies on history greatly influenced the small Attila. He was five years old when he stated that he wanted to become an astronomer, dealing with the Sun, and seven years old when he stated that he wanted to become a singer. He graduated at ELTE as a physicist-astronomer in 1974, and got his Ph.D. in 1977.

Physicist career

He studied theoretical biology focused on Ervin Bauer's works. In 2009 his subject field of interest concerned the relation between astronomy and civilization. [5] During 1995-1998 he worked with Professor Ervin László studying the physics of collective consciousness and the quantum-vacuum interactions. [6] In 2011 he was an invited professor on Computational Biology at the Chapman University, California for six months.

As physicist he had a strong interest in the problem of bringing the sciences and metaphysics together. [7] He paid special attention to interdisciplinal science [8] and complexity of living systems in 2008. He paid special attention to comprehensive science unifying the sciences of matter, life and mind, deepening the explanatory structure of sciences [7], complexity of living systems in 2008, the relations between astronomy and civilization in 2011, the living nature of the Sun in 2017, the ancient history of the Silk Road in 2021, and life-centred economics in 2022.

Books

Grandpierre published 21 books, 7 book chapters, more than 100 science papers, over 400 popular science articles, edited some books.

He wrote the FundamentalComplexity Measures of Life [9] and Cosmic Life Forms [10] chapters in the book titled From Fossils to Astrobiology (2008, Springer). edited the book Astronomy and Civilization (2011, Analecta Husserliana, [6]), The Helios Theory – The Sun as a Self-Regulating System and as a Cosmic Living Organism (2018, Process Studies, [11] Limits to Growth and the Philosophy of Life-Centred Economics. World Futures (2022, World Futures, [12] Extending Whiteheadian Organic Cosmology to a Comprehensive Science of Nature (Chapter 2 in Process Cosmology: New Integrations in Science and Philosophy, in the new “Palgrave Perspectives in Process Philosophy”, [13] Generalization of Quantum Theory into Biology (book chapter in Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology: Intuiting Life, [14] wrote two chapters and edited “The Cosmic Life Instinct Shows the Way for the Healthy Civilization” (2023, Springer, [15] ).

He was co-editor of the book Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment (2011, Springer). [7]

Important publications

In astrophysics he wrote an article on the variable nature of the Sun's core, which was mentioned in New Scientist as giving the best fit to explain the periodicities of terrestrial Ice Ages [16] in 2007.

Working with Katalin Martinás, he wrote on "natural" thermodynamics. [17] Since 2020, he is the Research President of the Budapest Centre for Long-Term Sustainability.

He generalised the principle of least action, playing a fundamental role in physics, to the principle of biology as the principle of greatest action. [18]

Musician career

As a musician Atilla Grandpierre is best known as leader/vocalist of Galloping Coroners (Vágtázó Halottkémek in Hungarian, Die Rasenden Leichenbeschauer in German, where they were a cultic band in the 80’s and 90’s) shamanic band inspired by the cosmic life force, from 1975-today and later also the same of acoustic Galloping Wonder Stag from 2005-today.

By his high school years, before he had started to sing, he had a certain degree of countrywide fame among youngsters as a mysterious, unconventional boy who did crazy things with his friends, e.g. creating homemade rockets. [25]

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References

  1. Grandpierre 1988, 2002, 2023a,b; Grandpierre, Chopra and Kafatos 2014; Grandpierre, Müller and Elek 2022
  2. "Fémforgács - Cikk - Vágtázó Életerő". Femforgacs.hu. 12 April 2009. Retrieved 2015-06-04.
  3. Eric-André. "Grandpierre, Louis". Hls-dhs-dss.ch. Retrieved 2015-06-08.
  4. A photo of Lajos Kossuth dedicated to Károly Grandpierre. wikimedia >>
  5. "A. Grandpierre was the main organizer and the Co-chair of the International Scientific Organizing Committee of the conference "Astronomy and Civilization"". Konkoly.hu. 2009.
  6. Grandpierre, A. 1995, Quantum-Vacuum Interactions in the Brain. in the Appendix of The Interconnected Universe. Toward a Unified Science of Quantum, Cosmos and Consciousness, by Ervin Laszlo, World Scientific , pp. 113-117
  7. 1 2 Astronomy and Civilization in the New Enlightenment - Passions of the Skies. Springer.com.
  8. A. Grandpierre was the member of the Scientific Board of the International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Science in 2008.
  9. "Fundamental complexity measures of life". Konkoly.hu. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
  10. "Cosmic Life Forms" (PDF). Konkuly.hu.
  11. Grandpierre, Attila (2017). "The Helios Theory: The Sun as a Self-Regulating System and as a Cosmic Living Organism". Process Studies. 46 (2): 206–228. doi:10.5406/processstudies.46.2.0206. ISSN   0360-6503.
  12. Grandpierre, Attila (2022). "Limits to Growth and the Philosophy of Life-Centred Economics". World Futures. 78 (7): 440–455. doi:10.1080/02604027.2022.2072160. ISSN   0260-4027.
  13. Process Cosmology. Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy. 2022. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81396-3. ISBN   978-3-030-81395-6.
  14. Koutroufinis, Spyridon A.; Araujo, Arthur (2023). Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology: Intuiting Life. European Studies in Process Thought. ISBN   978-1-5275-0450-9.
  15. Bartosch, David; Grandpierre, Attila; Peng, Bei, eds. (2023). Towards a Philosophy of Cosmic Life. doi:10.1007/978-981-99-2131-7. ISBN   978-981-99-2130-0.
  16. Clark, Stuart (2007-01-24). "Sun's fickle heart may leave us cold". New Scientist . Retrieved 2020-04-07.
  17. Martinas, K. and Grandpierre, A. 2009, Natural Thermodynamics. Kopenhagen, June 22–24, 2009, Conceptual Thermodynamics, The Joint European Thermodynamics Conference, Copenhagen "Conceptual thermodynamics | jetc10.fys.ku.dk". Archived from the original on 2015-06-02. Retrieved 2015-06-01.
  18. "Process-Philosophical Perspectives on Biology: Intuiting Life - Cambridge Scholars Publishing".
  19. Grandpierre, Attila (January 2024). "The epoch-making importance of Ervin Bauer's theoretical biology". Biosystems. 238. Bibcode:2024BiSys.23805179G. doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2024.105179. PMID   38492627.
  20. http://www.grandpierre.hu/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Grandpierre-2023-GENERALIZATION-OF-QUANTUM-THEORY-INTO-BIOLOGY.pdf
  21. http://www.grandpierre.hu/site/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Grandpierre-2023-The-Cosmic-Life-Instinct-Points-the-Way-to-a-Healthy-Ecological-Civilization.pdf
  22. Grandpierre, Attila (2022). "Limits to Growth and the Philosophy of Life-Centred Economics". World Futures. 78 (7): 440–455. doi:10.1080/02604027.2022.2072160. ISSN   0260-4027.
  23. http://www.grandpierre.hu/site/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Grandpierre-2022-Ch.-2-Extending-Whiteheadean-Organic-Cosmology.pdf
  24. Grandpierre, Attila (2021). "The cosmic roots of human nature and our culturally conditioned self-image" (PDF). International Communication of Chinese Culture. 8 (1): 47–63. doi:10.1007/s40636-021-00213-5. ISSN   2197-4233.
  25. "Interjú Grandpierre Atillával". Grandpierre.hu. 23 October 2008. Retrieved 2015-06-08.