The paper Michael Augros delivered for ISN's Insurgent Science Series (2009) can be found online:

The online text of Mike Augros's lecture is here (HTML), or you can download it in printable form (PDF).

Unfortunately the 2009 Conference has been cancelled:

The Conference has been called off, but the ISN's 2009 Summer Seminar on "Reduction, Emergence, and Essence" will take place June 15-19 at MIT as planned. Contact us if you need more information.

I haven't heard what the reasons are; I had been thinking of attending.