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FQXi Conference on Physics of Information
Talks from the FQXi 2014 International Conference. All presentations are copyrighted by the authors and may not be copied or distributed without prior written permission.
Charles H. Bennett was unable to attend the conference but kindly shared his slides.
Charles H. Bennett: The monogamy of entanglement, the ambiguity of the past, and the complexity of the present
Intro Panel: PERSPECTIVES ON INFORMATION
Perspectives on Information
Closing Session
Raphael Bousso and Carlo Rovelli, Reverse Debate
Using Information to Measure and Manipulate
Gerardo Adesso
Panel: What’s Quantum Information Really Good For?
Measuring and Manipulating Information
Raymond Laflamme, “Using Information to Measure and Manipulate Quantum Error Correction”
Panel: What Can and Can’t Be Predicted in Computational, Quantum, or Relativistic Systems?
Information and Cosmology
Panel: What Can We Know and Predict, and How, in a Superlarge Universe?
Anthony Aguirre, “Infinity and Indexicality: Some Provocations”
Andreas Albrecht, “The Physical Basis of Probabilities & Applications to Cosmology”
Information in Quantum Gravitational Systems
Seth Lloyd, “What Happens When You Fall into a Black Hole”
Lightning Talks
Panel: “Black Hole Firewalls, Yea or Nea?”
Mind, Brain, and Information
Panel: What Is Consciousness?
Biological and Complex Systems
Anita Goel
Panel: “Is There Free Will?“
Science and Society
Panel: How Can We Manage Existential Risk?
Panel: How Can Big-Picture Science Help Society, and Vice-Versa?
QSpace Latest
PressRelease: Shining a light on the roots of plant “intelligence”
All living organisms emit a low level of light radiation, but the origin and function of these ‘biophotons’ are not yet fully understood. An international team of physicists, funded by the Foundational Questions Institute, FQxI, has proposed a new approach for investigating this phenomenon based on statistical analyses of this emission. Their aim is to test whether biophotons can play a role in the transport of information within and between living organisms, and whether monitoring biophotons could contribute to the development of medical techniques for the early diagnosis of various diseases. Their analyses of the measurements of the faint glow emitted by lentil seeds support models for the emergence of a kind of plant ‘intelligence,’ in which the biophotonic emission carries information and may thus be used by plants as a means to communicate. The team reported this and reviewed the history of biophotons in an article in the journal Applied Sciences in June 2024.