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EventEmQM17 – Towards Ontology of Quantum Mechanics and the Conscious Agent
26/10 – 28/10/2017, University of London, Senate House, Beveridge HallOn the occasion of David Bohm’s 100th birthday, the EmQM17 Symposium offered an open forum for critically evaluating the prospects and significance – for 21st century physics – of ontological quantum mechanics, an approach which David Bohm helped pioneer. Contributions were invited that presented current advances in both standard as well as realist approaches to quantum mechanics, including new experiments, work in quantum foundations, and quantum philosophy.
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An open-access special issue of Entropy titled “Emergent Quantum Mechanics – David Bohm Centennial Perspectives” invited original speaker contribution: This Special Issue explores the possibility of an ontology for quantum mechanics. The focus is the search for a „deeperlevel“ theory for quantum mechanics that interconnects three fields of knowledge: emergence, the quantum, and information. Contributions will be featured that present current advances in realist approaches to quantum mechanics, including new experiments, work in quantum foundations, and the physics of the quantum observer and the conscious experimenter agent.
For the 26 research articles for the Entropy special issue please click here.
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- Emily Adlam
- Anthony Aguirre
- Yakir Aharonov
- Nathan Argaman
- Markus Arndt
- Peter Barker
- Herman Batelaan
- Bruce Carlson
- Ana María Cetto
- Hans-Thomas Elze
- Thomas Filk
- Robert Flack
- Shan Gao
- Nicolas Gisin
- Maurice de Gosson
- Christopher Green
- Gerhard Grössing
- Stuart Hameroff
- Basil J. Hiley
- Bei-Lok Hu
- Andrei Khrennikov
- Matt Leifer
- Chuan-Feng Li
- Tim Maudlin
- Tim Palmer
- Sir Roger Penrose
- Huw Price
- Paavo Pylkkänen
- Jonathan Schooler
- William Seager
- Aephraim Steinberg
- Nikolaus von Stillfried
- Ward Struyve
- Max Tegmark
- Jeff Tollaksen
- Roderich Tumulka
- Lev Vaidman
- Jan Walleczek
- Ken Wharton
- Howard Wiseman
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Jan Walleczek
Fetzer Franklin Fund, USA, and Phenoscience Laboratories, Berlin, Germany
Gerhard Grössing
Austrian Institute for Nonlinear Studies, Vienna, Austria
Paavo Pylkkänen
University of Helsinki, Finland, and University of Skövde, Sweden