Abstract The Free Energy Principle (FEP) states that under suitable conditions of weak
coupling, random dynamical systems with sufficient degrees of freedom will behave so as to …

Within the histories formalism the decoherence functional is a formal tool to investigate the
emergence of classicality in isolated quantum systems, yet an explicit evaluation of it from …

Treating reference frames fundamentally as quantum systems is inevitable in quantum
gravity and also in quantum foundations once considering laboratories as physical systems …

This chapter examines the prospects for the one who comes to think that there is little reason
to believe in anything beyond consciousness and that the physical world is wholly …

Theories of consciousness and cognition that assume a neural substrate automatically
regard phylogenetically basal, nonneural systems as nonconscious and noncognitive. Here …

I take it that physics provides our scientific understanding of that world at the most
fundamental level. However, its theories are perpetually provisional and the more or less …

Integrated Information Theory is one of the leading models of consciousness. It aims to
describe both the quality and quantity of the conscious experience of a physical system …

The subjective Bayesian interpretation of quantum mechanics (QBism) and Rovelli's
relational interpretation of quantum mechanics (RQM) are both notable for embracing the …

Unravelling the structure of genotype–phenotype (GP) maps is an important problem in
biology. Recently, arguments inspired by algorithmic information theory (AIT) and …

These lecture notes provide a basic introduction to the framework of generalized
probabilistic theories (GPTs) and a sketch of a reconstruction of quantum theory (QT) from …