That was the title of a ground-breaking article published in 1935 in the Physical Review by Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen (EPR). In this article they brought to the attention of physicists the strange correlations predicted by quantum mechanics for observations involving what are now called entangled systems. They used those predictions to argue that quantum […]
Tag Archives: philosophy
An awesome documentary about my stage hero: http://www.guba.com/watch/2000950423 (I removed the link that opened in this window because it was annoyingly starting even if you didn’t press play.)
In Limbo, outside the Gates of Heaven and Hell, St Peter stands with a scroll. He opens it up and reads it: “God has predicted everything you have ever done, and ever will do. He is not a magical being, however, but an extremely large mind capable of processing the consequences of all the actions […]
The Centre for Time at The University of Sydney has made available the audio and slides for a talk I have given at the “Causation and Decision” conference in Sydney in January. They can be found here, under the tab “Causation and Decision”. This talk was essentially the same that I have given at the […]
In this interesting TED talk, Nick Bostrom tackles hummanity’s biggest problems — from a very original point of view. Nick Bostrom is a transhumanist. As he defines in his “Transhumanist FAQ“, Transhumanism is a way of thinking about the future that is based on the premise that the human species in its current form does […]
I have a thing for paradoxes. It should be obvious: in my PhD thesis I talked about the EPR paradox, Schrodinger’s cat paradox, the “paradox” of Bell nonlocality; I have recently talked about the connection between Newcomb’s paradox and Bell’s theorem. Newcomb’s paradox also shows my interest in decision theory. And I have also dissected […]
I just realised that I didn’t mention in my blog that I have made my PhD thesis available in the physics arxiv. It was submitted in October 2007 for the Doctor of Philosophy degree at The University of Queensland, and my degree was granted in May 2008. The title is “Reality, Locality and All That: […]
Perimeter Institute has made available online the talks for the recent conference “The Clock and the Quantum”, which was organised through the Perimeter Institute – Australia Foundations (PIAF) collaboration. In my talk I tried my hand at a problem in the philosophical foundations of decision theory. Here’s the abstract: In recent years there has been […]
Yesterday, while giving a lecture on the philosophical implications of quantum mechanics, I was asked, for the second time in this kind of context: So is this quantum weirdness like the question: if a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? So I think […]
