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Events for 28 November 2024
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12:00 pm
James DiFrisco (The Francis Crick Institute): ‘Biological agency: a concept without a research program’
Title: Biological agency: a concept without a research program Authors: James DiFrisco and Richard Gawne Abstract: This paper evaluates recent work purporting to show that the “agency” of organisms is an important phenomenon for evolutionary biology to study. Biological agency is understood as the capacity for goal-directed, self-determining activity—a capacity that is present in all organisms irrespective of their complexity […]
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Simon Saunders (University of Oxford): ‘Quantum mechanics and intrinsic probability’
This is a Bristol-London-Oxford-Cambridge (BLOC) Philosophy of Physics event. Abstract: I examine the concept of interval or imprecise probability as applied to any admissible ensemble of microstates, in which the probability of a projector P in an ensemble is bounded by the frequency of +1 eigenstates (lower bound) and 0 eigenstates (upper bound). Given a Hilbert space H and quantum […]
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