If a Tree Falls: The Physics of What Happens and Who Is Listening
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INTRO PANEL: DIRTY SECRETS
CLOSING SESSION: FACE-OFFS, GAME SHOWS, AND MORE
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George Musser, conference summary, Nine Questions, From an Observer of Recent Events
David Chalmers and Carlo Rovelli, Reverse Debate on Consciousness
Sean Carroll and Alan Guth, The Quantum State of the Universe
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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
Panel: Andrew Briggs, Alberto Peruzzo, Raj Patel, Tim Taminiau, with Seth Lloyd
WHAT'S AN EVENT?
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Charles Bennett, Occam's Razor, Boltzmann's Brain and Wigner's Friend in Equilibrating and Non-Equilibrating Cosmologies
Bill Unruh, Effect of Measurement on Location of a Quantum Event
Panel: Emily Adlam, Claus Kiefer, Mairi Sakellariadou, with Andrew Briggs
WHAT'S THE GAP BETWEEN LIFE AND NON-LIFE?
Panel: Joscha Bach, Paul Davies, Bart Selman, Susanne Still, with Anthony Aguirre
WHAT'S AN OBSERVER?
Susanne Still, Optimal Information Processing as an Observer's Way to Represent Information
David Wolpert, Observers as Systems That Exploit Information About the Environment to Stay out of Equilibrium
Panel: Alan Guth, Adrian Kent, David Wallace, with Adam Brown
WHAT EXISTS?
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Raphael Bousso, What Exists and What Happens: The Role of the Observer
Steve Giddings, What Exists in the Quantum Universe – Observation in Gravitational Systems
Jenann Ismael, Why Physics Should Care About the Mind, and How to Think About It Without Worrying About the Hard Problems
Panel: Andreas Albrecht, Bianca Dittrich, Laura Mersini–Houghton, Don Page, with Carlo Rovelli
CONSCIOUSNESS
Masafumi Oizumi, Measures of Consciousness From the Viewpoint of Information Geometry
Max Tegmark, Integrated Information in Brains, Machines and Natural Language
Panel: Larissa Albantakis, David Chalmers, Federico Faggin, with George Musser
LIGHTNING TALKS
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- Lorenzo Maccone
- Ken Wharton
- Laurance Doyle
- Gregor Weihs
- Natalia Ares
- Tommaso Bolognesi
- Vitaly Vanchurin
- Howard Wiseman
- Antonio Acín
- Thomas Durt
- Peter Byrne
- Noson Yanofsky