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If a Tree Falls: The Physics of What Happens and Who Is Listening
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Intro Panel: Dirty Secrets
Anthony Aguirre, Dirty Secrets of Cosmology
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Matt Leifer, Dirty Secrets of Quantum Mechanics
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Carlo Rovelli, Dirty Secrets of Quantum Gravity
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Paul Davies, Dirty Secrets of Life
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Bart Selman, Dirty Secrets of Artificial Intelligence
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David Chalmers, Dirty Secrets of Consciousness
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Closing Session: Face-offs, Game Shows, and More
George Musser, conference summary, Nine Questions, From an Observer of Recent Events
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David Chalmers and Carlo Rovelli, Reverse Debate on Consciousness
Sean Carroll and Alan Guth, The Quantum State of the Universe
Vitaly Vanchurin and Raphael Bousso, Is There Really Stuff Outside of Our Causal Patch?
QM Experiments
Keith Schwab, Quantum Physics of Mechanical Devices and Two Questions About Mathematics and Physics
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Matthew Fisher, Quantum Cognition – Theory and Experiment
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Sean Carroll and Alan Guth, The Quantum State of the Universe
What’s an Event?
Charles Bennett, Occam’s Razor, Boltzmann’s Brain and Wigner’s Friend in Equilibrating and Non-Equilibrating Cosmologies
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Bill Unruh, Effect of Measurement on Location of a Quantum Event
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Sean Carroll, What Happens Inside the Wavefunction?
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Vitaly Vanchurin and Raphael Bousso, Is There Really Stuff Outside of Our Causal Patch?
What’s the Gap Between Life and Non-life?
Jim Crutchfield, Thermodynamics of Agency
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Seth Lloyd, Do Chemical Reactions Possess Free Will?
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Joshua Deutsch, Are Species Sentient?
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Vitaly Vanchurin and Raphael Bousso, Is There Really Stuff Outside of Our Causal Patch?
What’s an Observer?
Jim Hartle, The Return of the Observer
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Susanne Still, Optimal Information Processing as an Observer’s Way to Represent Information
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David Wolpert, Observers as Systems That Exploit Information About the Environment to Stay out of Equilibrium
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Vitaly Vanchurin and Raphael Bousso, Is There Really Stuff Outside of Our Causal Patch?
What Exists?
Raphael Bousso, What Exists and What Happens: The Role of the Observer
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Steve Giddings, What Exists in the Quantum Universe – Observation in Gravitational Systems
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Jenann Ismael, Why Physics Should Care About the Mind, and How to Think About It Without Worrying About the Hard Problems
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Panel: Andreas Albrecht, Bianca Dittrich, Laura Mersini–Houghton, Don Page, with Carlo Rovelli
Consciousness
Giulio Tononi, Consciousness as Integrated Information
Masafumi Oizumi, Measures of Consciousness From the Viewpoint of Information Geometry
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Max Tegmark, Integrated Information in Brains, Machines and Natural Language
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Vitaly Vanchurin and Raphael Bousso, Is There Really Stuff Outside of Our Causal Patch?
Lightning Talks: Round 1
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Participants:
- Lorenzo Maccone
- Ken Wharton
- Laurance Doyle
- Gregor Weihs
- Natalia Ares
- Tommaso Bolognesi
- Vitaly Vanchurin
- Howard Wiseman
- Antonio Acín
- Thomas Durt
- Peter Byrne
- Noson Yanofsky
Lightning Talks: Round 2
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Participants:
Ken Olum
Eduardo Guendelman
Fred Adams
Daniele Oriti
Garrett Lisi
Francesca Vidotto
Ian Durham
Michael Westmoreland
Jeremy Butterfield
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