This is a review article in which we give theoretical and experimental evidence on the role of quantum mechanics in consciousness, perception and cognition. http://www.saistmp.com/ http://www.saistmp.com/images/eugene%20wigner.pdf
Jean Bricmont This is a review of Travis Norsen’s book Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: An Exploration of the Physical Meaning of Quantum Theory (Springer, 2017). Norsen’s_book
Louis Marchildon (Universite du Quebec) Kastner (arXiv:1709.09367) and Kastner and Cramer (arXiv:1711. 04501) argue that the Relativistic Transactional Interpretation (RTI) of quantum mechanics provides a clear definition of absorbers and a solution to the measurement problem. I briefly examine how RTI stands with respect to unitarity in quantum mechanics. I then argue that a specific proposal to locate the origin… Read more →
Branches of the Black Hole Wave Function Need Not Contain Firewalls. (arXiv:1712.04955v1 [hep-th]) hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2017-12-16 2:35am GMT Authors: Ning Bao, Sean M. Carroll, Aidan Chatwin-Davies, Jason Pollack, Grant N. Remmen We discuss the branching structure of the quantum-gravitational wave function that describes the evaporation of a black hole. A global wave function that initially describes a classical Schwarzschild geometry is continually… Read more →
Landauer Defended: Reply to Norton Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. on 2017-12-08 6:50pm GMT Ladyman, James and Robertson, Katie (2013) Landauer Defended: Reply to Norton. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics. ISSN 1355-2198 Can Quantum Particles Cross a Horizon?. (arXiv:1712.02637v1 [gr-qc]) hep-th updates on arXiv.org on 2017-12-08 8:05am GMT Authors: Merab Gogberashvili It is widely believed that… Read more →
The International Conference on Quanta and Mind (ICQM2018) will be held at the Events Room at the J. Paul Leonard Library (LIB 121), San Francisco State University, 1600 Holloway Ave., San Francisco, California, from April 10th to 11th, 2018. The goal of this conference is provide an interdisciplinary forum for renowned scholars from different areas of knowledge, particularly physics and… Read more →
Andreas Schlatter There are so called MOND corrections to the general relativistic laws of gravity, able to explain phenomena like the rotation of large spiral galaxies or gravitational lensing by certain galaxy clusters. We show that these corrections can be derived in the framework of synchronizing thermal clocks. We develop a general formula, which reproduces the deep MOND correction at large scales and… Read more →
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Inter-theory Relations in Quantum Gravity: Correspondence, Reduction, and Emergence Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. on 2017-12-02 3:01am GMT Crowther, Karen (2017) Inter-theory Relations in Quantum Gravity: Correspondence, Reduction, and Emergence. [Preprint] Brane Theory, Presentism and the “Now” Problem Philsci-Archive: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. on 2017-12-02 2:57am GMT Robertson, Douglas (2017) Brane Theory, Presentism and the “Now”… Read more →
Abstract : We indicate a new way in the solution of the problem of the quantum measurement . In past papers we used the well-known formalism of the density matrix using an algebraic approach in a two states quantum spin system S, considering the particular case of three anticommuting elements. We demonstrated that, during the wave collapse, we have a… Read more →
On the history of the quantum. Introduction to the HQ4 special issue ScienceDirect Publication: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics on 2017-11-25 8:31pm GMT Publication date: November 2017 Source:Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, Volume 60 Author(s): Jaume Navarro,… Read more →
