One of the persistent difficulties in discussing the emergence of macroscopic irreversibility from microscopic quantum dynamics is that we often talk about “macroscopic states”, “macroscopic operat…

Bayes’ rule is often introduced in textbooks through examples involving urns filled with colored balls. It is striking, however, that the same formula works just as well in situations totally…

This book is a philosopher's introduction to the idea that our universe is just one of many universes. I present and assess three versions of the idea: one version from philosophy, and two from physic...

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Rolling Stone reports on a strange new phenomenon spotted this week in a Reddit thread titled "Chatgpt induced psychosis." The original post came from a 27-year-old teacher who explained that her pa...

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

Two things have long bothered me about the way we discuss quantum non-Markovianity. First, that the concept fails to exclude classical processes, so that the use of the word “quantum” s…

Differences between causal and noncausal backflows lead to a convex resource theory of genuine quantum non-Markovianity.

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