Speaker
Howard Wiseman
(Griffith University)
Description
Experimental metaphysics is the study of how empirical results can reveal facts about the fundamental nature of the world, independent of any theory. It is a field born from Bell’s 1964 theorem, and the experiments it inspired. I argue that the high frontier for the field will come from combining Bell’s 1964 paper with those of two other scientists of roughly the same era. Specifically, realising a thinking machine (à la Turing) on a quantum computer in the role of Wigner’s friend on one side of a Bell experiment would yield either a more acute contradiction between metaphysical assumptions or new physics.
A few papers are relevant, but especially this one: https://doi.org/10.22331/q-2023-09-14-1112
