Chris Fields

The Physics of Free Will — A dialogue with Chris Fields “If anything has free will, everything does.” — Chris Fields

Delighted to be interviewed by @gunnargronlid.bsky.social for his new hbar Journal:
hbarjournal.substack.com/p/the-physic...

Congratulations!

Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.

Just out today - generic agents and the FEP from unmodified quantum information theory.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Operational protocols cannot certify classicality The existence and practical utility of operational protocols that certify entanglement raises the question of whether operational protocols exist that certify the absence of entanglement, i.e. that ce...

New preprint showing that the classicality of the observed world can only be a pragmatic assumption.

arxiv.org/abs/2510.08239

Amplituhedra for Generic Quantum Processes from Computation-Scattering Correspondence We study the relationship between computation and scattering both operationally (hence phenomenologically) and formally. We show how topological quantum neural networks (TQNNs) enable universal quantu...

New preprint constructing geometric representations of computations: arxiv.org/abs/2509.19772

Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems This book provides insight into modern constructs of AI and quantum information and includes tools for the characterization of physical interactions.

link.springer.com/book/9783031...

Frontiers | Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization: theoretical model Multiple theoretical models of dissociative experiences have been formulated over the last century. These theories are clinically useful; however, it remains...

www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...

Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable
doi.org/10.1209/0295...
via @ioppublishing.bsky.social

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A useful guide to our era: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience Abstract. This paper examines the constraints that the free-energy principle (FEP) places on possible model of consciousness, particularly models of attent

Article: "How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience"

Coauthors: @chrisfields38.bsky.social, Mahault Albarracin, Alex Kiefer, @mjdramstead.bsky.social, Adam Safron

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Negligence? As if he's not sharing military plans via Signal on purpose? How about "violation of the Espionage Act"?

Sure looks like it.

In the language of computation, the history of anything is an execution trace, not a function. Execution traces are constructive and generally not ergodic. I don't see any disagreement with classical physics being computational.

Burn him!

In New Mexico, we stand up for workers and justice. I
marched alongside the fierce Dolores Huerta and community this morning in Barelas. In this moment, in this country, we have to harness our strength, stand together and fight for what is right, and I'm not backing down.

Today, we’re saying hands off
Medicaid, Social Security, VA benefits and all of the programs that New Mexicans rely on. As we stand together, we send a clear message: we will never stop organizing and we will stand up for our communities!

Yep, that's goal. A country for the rich and only the rich. What's the plan for reversing this takeover?

What about the rising tide of vicious right-wing madness that has engulfed the world over the past two decades. Might that have anything to do with it?

Every senator who values freedom should now step up.

Lovely. Thank you, and Congratulations!

What will you do to oppose this?

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All voter suppression acts are un-American. The only goal of these bills is the replacement of democracy with dictatorship.

They don't intend to put anything back together.

Please make sure all New Mexicans understand that Trump has just imposed new sales taxes that they will have to pay.

This is the expression I want to see on all their faces.

Does everyone understand that this would END 80 years of US world leadership, topple international stability, and make NUCLEAR WAR way more likely?

Greenland is part of Denmark. Attacking Denmark would make all of NATO our ENEMY.

Here's an intriguing fine detail: @premthakker.bsky.social reports that university officials have discovered that the Trump administration has been revoking not only visas but also the student "status" (based on, e.g., maintaining required course load) that universities usually control

When the physicists need burner phones, that’s when you know America’s changed | John Naughton US academics, fearing persecution by their own government, are becoming ideological refugees. Europe, and Britain, must offer them sanctuary

A recent trend at international academic conferences is that some American participants use burner phones or minimalist laptops. Their devices often run only browsers and basic software. This resembles the security measures travelers took 15 years ago when visiting China.

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