2018 Agency in the Physical World
The Agency in the Physical World program is part of a science strategic partnership between the Fetzer Franklin Fund of the John E. Fetzer Memorial Trust and FQXi on Agency, Intelligence, and Consciousness. All grants are made through a joint FQXi-FFF donor advised fund at the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Awardee   |
Institution | Value  |
Project Title |
| Giovanni Amelino-Camelia / Philip Hoehn | University of Naples Federico II / IQOQI | $51,175 | Agency-dependent spacetime and spacetime-dependent agency |
| Paula Apsell | WGBH Educational Foundation | $50,000 | NOVA's What the Physics?! |
| John Barrow | University of Cambridge | $50,000 | The Mathematics of Agency in the Physical World |
| Caslav Brukner | Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) | $105,289 | Agents in superpositions: the covariance of physical laws in quantum reference frames |
| Sean Carroll | California Institute of Technology | $60,203 | Why Agents Remember the Past and Affect the Future: The Past Hypothesis and the Emergence of Causality |
| Eric Cavalcanti | Griffith University | $50,480 | Causal reasoning in quantum agents |
| Paul Davies | Arizona State University | $113,747 | De Sitter Demons |
| Sebastian Deffner | University of Maryland Baltimore County | $111,282 | Thermodynamics of information from driven quantum field theories |
| Thomas Elliott / Mile Gu | Nanyang Technological University | $70,668 | The role of quantum effects in simplifying adaptive agents |
| Lucien Hardy | Perimeter Institute | $42,504 | Operationalism, Agency, and Quantum Gravity |
| Patrick Hayden | Stanford University | $83,984 | Agency, Simulation, and Counterfactual Computation |
| Matthew Hoban / Ana Belen Sainz | Goldsmiths, University of London / Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics | $87,105 | The Emergence of Agents from Causal Order |
| Peter Love | Tufts University | $119,942 | Quantum and classical Bayesian agents |
| Matilde Marcolli | California Institute of Technology | $10,000 | FQXi Agency in the Physical World: Towards a Topological Model of Consciousness and Agency |
| Chiara Marletto / Vlatko Vedral | Oxford University | $104,934 | Agent-based irreversibility in quantum theory: theory and experiment |
| Gerard Milburn | The University of Queensland | $89,774 | Are Quantum agents possible? |
| Kavan Modi / Naotsugu Tsuchiya / Jakob Hohwy | Monash University | $10,000 | Emergent agency from collective dynamics |
| Markus Mueller / Andrew Garner | IQOQI | $69,544 | Where agents and algorithms meet: free will and computational irreducibility |
| Robert Phillips | California Institute of Technology | $120,000 | Agency in Living Matter: The Physics of “Molecular Vitalism” |
| Dean Rickles | University of Sydney | $91,369 | Radical Conservative: A Biography of John Archibald Wheeler |
| Carlo Rovelli | Samy Maroun Center for Space Time and the Quantum | $180,000 | Agency in time-reversal symmetric microphysics |
| Aephraim Steinberg | University of Toronto | $138,000 | Quantum and classical agents and their ability to clone and erase information |
| Susanne Still | University of Hawaii at Manoa | $115,000 | Thermodynamics of Agency |
| Wojciech Zurek | Theiss Research | $75,000 | Quantum Darwinism and Agents |
| TOTAL | $2,000,000 |
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