2 papers
quant-ph2025
Agency cannot be a purely quantum phenomenon
Emily C. Adlam, Kelvin J. McQueen, Mordecai Waegell
What are the physical requirements for agency? We investigate whether a purely quantum system (one evolving unitarily in a coherent regime without decoherence or collapse) can sati…
physics.hist-ph2023
The Generative Programs Framework
Mordecai Waegell, Kelvin J. McQueen, Emily C. Adlam
Recently there has been significant interest in using causal modelling techniques to understand the structure of physical theories. However, the notion of `causation' is limiting -…