Chris Fields Research

Chris Fields Research
Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University
Caunes Minervois, France
Mesilla, NM, USA

My work applies quantum information theory and the Free Energy Principle to problems in fundamental physics, developmental and regenerative biology, and cognitive science.

Free online course on Physics as Information Processing, May - Oct 2023 (6 lectures, 6 discussions, web interactive Q&A), offered by the Active Inference Institute. Download the course outline here or watch an introductory video here.

Recent talks and conversations:

"The Physics of Free Will - A dialogue with Chris Fields" by Gunnar Gronlid, The ℏ Journal, 31 Oct 2025.

"From experience to math," Allen Discovery Center, 28 Oct 2025, a contribution to the Symposium on the Platonic Space.

"Noncausal information flow in evolution, development, and behavior," Allen Discovery Center, 1 July 2025.

What is the Identity operator?, Topos Institute colloquim, 19 September 2024.

Interview with Matt Gray of Cheltenham and UK Philosophers, 6 June 2024.

Using quantum theory and the free energy principle to develop non-reductive explanations (starts at 39 min; ends at 01:29 min),
Ohio State University Quantum Social Sciences Bootcamp, 8 July, 2024.

Modeling complex systems as interacting agents, Part 1 (starts at 20 min) and Part 2, Erice International School on Complexity, Course XVIII,
Machine learning approaches for complexity, 27 April, 2024.

Dissolving the Boundaries: Toward a scale-free formalization of physical systems as observers, UCLA Luskin Symposium - Pushing the Boundaries: Neuroscience, Cognition and Life, 27 June, 2023.

Academic publications:

2026:

Hartl, B., Pio-Lopez, L., Fields, C., and Levin, M. (2026) Remapping and navigation of an embedding space via error minimization: A fundamental organizational principle of cognition in natural and artificial systems. Physics of Life Reviews 58: 336-359 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2026.06.011).

Kofman, K., Adami, C., Baluška, F., Bongard, J., Brash, D., Calvo, P., Dodig-Crnkovic, G., Das, P., Fields, C., Froese, T., Gentili, P. L., Georgiev, G. Y., Gilbert, S. F., Jackson, T. N. W., Kauffman, S., Lane, N., Marshall, P., McShea, D., Miller, W., Newman, S., Nunn, A., Pavlic, T. P., Picard, M., Ratcliff, W., Reber, A., Shapiro, J., Sloman, A., Solé, R., Sonnenschein, C., Stepney, S., Watson, R., Witkowski, O., and Levin, M. (2026) Defining life: A conversation. Organisms 9: 11-47 (doi: 10.13133/2532-5876/19492).

Fields, C. (2026) How did we get so smart? Physics of Life Reviews 58: 164-165 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2026.06.011).

Delorme, A. Cusimano, A., Tran, M., Nguyen, P., Deng, D., Fields, C., Velíšek, L.,Wagner, R. Yang, P. and Cohen, L. (2026) Exploring the mechanisms of biofield therapy through joint electrophysiological recordings in humans and mice. IBRO Neuroscience Reports 21: 52-62. (doi:10.1016/j.ibneur.2026.05.011).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2026) From complementarity to non-duality: Seeing objects and processes as pragmatic constructs. Physics of Life Reviews 57: 1-3 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.01.008).

Dietrich, E., Fields, C., Sullins, J. P., von Heuveln, B., and Zebrowski, R. (2026) Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence: The History and Legacy of the AI Wars, 2nd Edition. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

2025:

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2025) Distributed Information and Computation in Generic Quantum Systems Springer, Cham. (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-97263-8).

Tolchinsky, A., Levin, M., Fields, C., Da Costa, L., Murphy, R., Friedman, D., and Pincus, D. (2025) Temporal depth in a coherent self and in depersonalization: Theoretical model. Frontiers in Psychology 16: 1585315 (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1585315).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F., Marcianò, A., and Zappala, E. (2025) Whether a quantum computation employs nonlocal resources is operationally undecidable. EPL 151: 48001 (doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/adfd0e).

Fields, C. (2025) Paradox or illusion? Physics of Life Reviews 53: 310-311 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.04.009).

Fields, C., Albarracin, M., Friston, K., Kiefer, A., Ramstead, M. J. D. and Safron, A. (2025) How do inner screens enable imaginative experience? Applying the free-energy principle directly to the study of conscious experience. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2025: niaf009 (doi: 10.1093/nc/niaf009).

Dobson, S. and Fields, C. (2025) Constructing condensed memories in functorial time. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 37: 487-511 (doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2023.2222374).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2025) Life, its origin, and its distribution: a perspective from the Conway-Kochen Theorem and the Free Energy Principle. Communicative & Integrative Biology 18: 2466017 (doi: 10.1080/19420889.2025.2466017).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2025) Thoughts and thinkers: On the complementarity between objects and processes. Physics of Life Reviews 52: 256-273 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2025.01.008).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F., Marcianò, A., and Zappala, E. (2025) ER = EPR is an operational theorem. Physics Letters B 860: 139150 (doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2024.139150).

2024:

Dobson, S. and Fields, C. (2024) Making up our minds: Imaginative deconstruction in MathArt, 1920-Present. Women in MathArt (AWMS Vol. 34), Springer, pp. 1-21 (doi:10.1007/978-3-031-66402-1_1).

Cohen, L., Delorme, A. Cusimano, A., Chakraborty, S., Nguyen, P., Deng, D., Iqbal, S., Nelson, M., Wei, D., Fields, C., and Yang, P. (2024) Examining the effects of biofield therapy through simultaneous assessment of electrophysiological and cellular outcomes. Nature Scientific Reports 14: 29221 (doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-79617-3).

Dietrich, E., Fields, C., Sullins, J. P., von Heuveln, B., and Zebrowski, R. (2024) How much like us do we want AIs to be? Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 28:137-168 (doi: 10.5840/techne202486200).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2024) Meta-learning goes hand-in-hand with metacognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47: e151 (doi: 10.1017/S0140525X24000256).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2024) Nash equilibria and undecidability in generic physical interactions - A free energy perspective. Games 15(5): 30 (doi: 10.3390/g15050030).

Fields, C., Goldstein, A. and Sandved-Smith, L. (2024) Making the thermodynamic cost of active inference explicit. Entropy 26: 622 (doi: 10.3390/e26080622).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Marcianò, A. (2024) Communication protocols and QECCs from the perspective of TQFT, Part II: QECCs as spacetimes. Fortschritte der Physik 72: 202400050 (doi: 10.1002/prop.202400050).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Marcianò, A. (2024) Communication protocols and QECCs from the perspective of TQFT, Part I: Constructing LOCC protocols and QECCs from TQFTs. Fortschritte der Physik 72: 202400049 (doi: 10.1002/prop.202400049).

Fields, C. (2024) The free energy principle induces compartmentalization. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 723: 150070 (doi: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2024.150070).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2024) Snakes and ladders in the evolution of language. Physics of Life Reviews 49: 127-129 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2024.04.007).

Fields, C., Cohen, L., Cusimano, A., Chakraborty, S., Nguyen, P., Deng, D., Iqbal, S., Nelson, M., Wei, D., Delorme, A. and Yang, P. (2024) Search for entanglement between spatially separated living systems: Experiment design, results, and lessons learned. Biophysica 4: 168-181 (doi: 10.3390/biophysica4020012).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Levin, M. (2024) Principled limitations on self-representation for generic physical systems Entropy 26: 194 (doi: 10.3390/e26030194).

Friston, K., Parr, T., Heins, C., Constant, A., Friedman, D., Isomura, T. Fields, C., Verbelen, T., Ramstead, M., Clippinger, J. and Frith, C. D. (2024) Federated inference and belief sharing. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews 156: 105500 (doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105500).

2023:

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2023) All quantum systems are strange: A commentary on "Path integrals, particular kinds, and strange things" by Friston, Da Costa, Sakthivadivel, Heins, Pavliotis, Ramstead, and Parr. Physics of Life Reviews 47: 145-147 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2023.10.033).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2023) Separability, contextuality, and the quantum Frame Problem. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 62: 159 (doi: 10.1007/s10773-023-05406-9).

Friston, K., Friedman, D. A., Constant, A., Knight, V. B., Fields, C., Parr, T. and Campbell, J. O. (2023) A variational synthesis of evolutionary and developmental dynamics. Entropy 25: 964 (doi: 10.3390/e25070964).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2023) Regulative development as a model for origin of life and artificial life studies. BioSystems 229: 104927 (doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.104927).

Fields, C., Fabrocini, F., Friston, K., Glazebrook, J. F., Hazan, H., Levin, M. and Marcianò, A. (2023) Control flow in active inference systems, Part II: Tensor networks as general models of control flow. IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications 9: 246-256 (doi: 10.1109/TMBMC.2023.3272158).

Fields, C., Fabrocini, F., Friston, K., Glazebrook, J. F., Hazan, H., Levin, M. and Marcianò, A. (2023) Control flow in active inference systems, Part I: Classical and quantum formulations of active inference. IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications 9: 235-245 (doi: 10.1109/TMBMC.2023.3272150).

2022:

Fields, C., Friston, K., Glazebrook, J. F., Levin, M. and Marcianò, A. (2022) The free energy principle induces neuromorphic development. Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering 2: 042002 (doi: 10.1088/2634-4386/aca7de).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Marcianò, A. (2022) The physical meaning of the Holographic Principle. Quanta 11: 72-96 (doi: 10.12743/quanta.v11i1.206).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Marcianò, A. (2022) Sequential measurements, topological quantum field theories, and topological quantum neural networks. Fortschritte der Physik 70: 202200104 (doi: 10.1002/prop.202200104).

Fields, C., Friston, K., Glazebrook, J. F. and Levin, M. (2022) A free energy principle for generic quantum systems. Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 173: 36-59 (doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2022.05.006).

Marcianò, A., Chen, D., Fabrocini, F., Fields, C., Greco, E., Gresnigt, N., Jinklub, K., Lulli, M., Terzidis, K. and Zappala, E. (2022) Quantum neural networks and topological quantum field theories. Neural Networks 153: 164-178 (doi: 10.1016/j.neunet.2022.05.028).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2022) Competency in navigating arbitrary spaces as an invariant for analyzing cognition in diverse embodiments. Entropy 24: 819 (doi: 10.3390/e24060819).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Levin, M. (2022) Neurons as hierarchies of quantum reference frames. BioSystems 219: 104714 (doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104714).

Kuchling, F., Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2022) Metacognition as a consequence of competing evolutionary time scales. Entropy 24: 601 (doi: 10.3390/e24050601).

Fields, C. (2022) Editorial: Symmetry in quantum theory of gravity. Symmetry 14: 775 (doi: 10.3390/sym14040775).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2022) Information flow in context-dependent hierarchical Bayesian inference. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 34: 111-142 (doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2020.1836034).

Dietrich, E., Fields, C., Sullins, J. P., von Heuveln, B., and Zebrowski, R. (2022) The AI Wars, 1950-2000, and their consequences. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness 9: 127-151 (doi: 10.1142/S2705078521300012).

2021:

Fields, C. (2021) What is a theory of consciousness for? Journal of Consciousness Studies 28(9-10): 104-115 (doi: 10.53765/20512201.28.9.104).

Prakash, C., Stephens, K. D., Hoffman, D. D., Singh, M. and Fields, C. (2021) Fitness beats truth in the evolution of perception. Acta Biotheoretica 69: 319-341 (doi: 10.1007/s10441-020-09400-0).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2021) Metabolic limits on classical information processing by biological cells. BioSystems 209: 104513 (doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104513).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Levin, M. (2021) Minimal physicalism as a scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness. Neuroscience of Consciousness 2021: niab013 (doi: 10.1093/nc/niab013).

Addazi, A., Chen, P., Fabrocini, F., Fields, C., Greco, E., Lulli, M., Marcianò, A. and Pasechnik, R. (2021) Generalized holographic principle, gauge invariance, and the emergence of gravity à la Wilczek. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Science 8: 563450 (doi: 10.3389/fspas.2021.563450).

Fields, C., Glazebrook, J. F. and Marcianò, A. (2021) Reference frame induced symmetry breaking on holographic screens. Symmetry 13: 408 (doi: 10.3390/sym13030408).

Dietrich, E., Fields, C., Sullins, J. P., von Heuveln, B., and Zebrowski, R. (2021) Great Philosophical Objections to Artificial Intelligence: The History and Legacy of the AI Wars. London: Bloomsbury Academic.

2020:

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2020) Why isn't sex optional? Stem-cell competition, loss of regenerative capacity, and cancer in metazoan evolution. Communicative and Integrative Biology 13: 170-183 (doi: 10.1080/19420889.2020.1838809).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2020) Do Process-1 simulations generate the epistemic feelings that drive Process-2 decision making? Cognitive Processing 21: 533-553 (doi: 10.1007/s10339-020-00981-9).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2020) How do living systems create meaning? Philosophies 5: 36 (doi: 10.3390/philosophies5040036).

Dietrich, E., Fields, C., Hoffman, D. D. and Prentner, R. (2020) Editorial: Epistemic feelings: Phenomenology, implementation, and role in cognition. Frontiers in Psychology 11: 606046 (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.606046).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2020) Does evolution have a target morphology? Organisms 4: 57-76 (doi: 10.13133/2532-5876/16961).

Fields, C. and Marcianò, A. (2020) Markov blankets are general physical interaction surfaces. Physics of Life Reviews 33: 109-111 (doi: 10.1016/j.plrev.2019.08.004).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2020) Integrating evolutionary and developmental thinking into a scale-free biology. BioEssays 42: 1900228 (doi: 10.1002/bies.201900228).

Dietrich, E. and Fields, C. (2020) Equivalence of the Frame and Halting problems. Algorithms 13: 175 (doi:10.3390/a13070175).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2020) Scale-free architectures support representational diversity. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 43: e133 (doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002966).

Fields, C. and Marcianò, A. (2020) Holographic screens are classical information channels. Quantum Reports 2: 326-336 (doi: 10.3390/quantum2020022).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2020) Representing measurement as a thermodynamic symmetry breaking. Symmetry 12: 810 (doi:10.3390/sym12050810).

Prakash, C., Fields, C., Hoffman, D. D., Prentner, R., and Singh, M. (2020) Fact, fiction, and fitness. Entropy 22: 514 (doi: 10.3390/e22050514).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2020) Does regeneration recapitulate phylogeny? Planaria as a model of body-axis specification in ancestral eumetazoa. Communicative and Integrative Biology 13: 27-38 (doi: 10.1080/19420889.2020.1729601).

Fields, C., Bischof, J. and Levin, M. (2020) Morphological coordination: A common ancestral function unifying neural and non-neural signaling. Physiology 35: 16-30 (doi: 10.1152/physiol.00027.2019).

2019:

Fields, C. and Marcianò, A. (2019) Sharing nonfungible information requires shared nonfungible information. Quantum Reports 1: 252-259 (doi: 10.3390/quantum1020022).

Prentner, R. and Fields, C. (2019) Using AI methods to evaluate a minimal model for perception. Open Philosophy 2: 503-524 (doi: 10.1515/opphil-2019-0034).

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2019) Somatic multicellularity as a satisficing solution to the prediction-error minimization problem. Communicative and Integrative Biology 12: 119-132 (doi: 10.1080/19420889.2019.1643666). Interactive model associated with this paper.

Durant, F., Bischof, J., Fields, C., Morokuma, J., LaPalme, J., Hoi, A. and Levin, M. (2019) The role of early bioelectric signals in the regeneration of planarian anterior/posterior polarity. Biophysical Journal 116: 948-961 (doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2019.01.029). Interactive model associated with this paper.

Fields, C. (2019) Decoherence as a sequence of entanglement swaps. Results in Physics 12: 1888-1892 (doi: 10.1016/j.rinp.2019.02.007).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2019) A mosaic of Chu spaces and Channel Theory II: Applications to object identification and mereological complexity. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 31: 237-265 (doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2018.1544285).

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2019) A mosaic of Chu spaces and Channel Theory I: Category-theoretic concepts and tools. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 31: 177-213 (doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2018.1544282).

2018:

Fields, C. (2018) Some consequences of the thermodynamic cost of system identification. Entropy 20: 797 (doi: 10.3390/e20100797).

Fields, C. (2018) Sciences of observation. Philosophies 3: 29 (doi: 10.3390/philosophies3040029).

Fields, C. (2018) Mind is an abstraction. Constructivist Foundations 13: 350-352.

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2018) Are planaria individuals? What regenerative biology is telling us about the nature of multicellularity. Evolutionary Biology 45: 237-247 (doi: 10.1007/s11692-018-9448-9). Interactive model associated with this paper.

Fields, C. (2018) First-person science is third person and vice versa. Constructivist Foundations 13: 240-241.

Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2018) Multiscale memory and bioelectric error correction in the cytoplasm-cytoskeleton-membrane system. WIRES Systems Biology and Medicine 10: e1410 (doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1410).

Fields, C., Hoffman, D. D., Prakash, C. and Singh, M. (2018) Conscious agent networks: Formal analysis and application to cognition. Cognitive Systems Research 47: 186-213 (doi: 10.1016/j.cogsys.2017.10.003).

2017:

Fields, C. (2017) Object permanence. In: T.K. Shackelford and V.A. Weekes-Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, Entry 2373 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-16999-6_2373-1).

Fields, C., Hoffman, D. D., Prakash, C. and Prentner, R. (2017) Eigenforms, interfaces and holographic encoding: Toward an evolutionary account of objects and spacetime. Constructivist Foundations 12: 265-291 (includes commentaries by E. Dietrich, U. Kordeš, L. H. Kauffman, K. Werner and A. Marcianò plus author response).

Durant, F., Morokuma, J., Fields, C., Williams, K., Adams, D.S. and Levin, M. (2017) Long-term, stochastic editing of regenerative anatomy via targeting endogenous bioelectric gradients. Biophysical Journal 112: 2231-2243 (doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2017.04.011). Supplementary information and interactive model associated with this paper.

Fields, C. and Glazebrook, J. F. (2017) Disrupted development and imbalanced function in the global neuronal workspace: A positive-feedback mechanism for the emergence of ASD in early infancy. Cognitive Neurodynamics 11: 1-21 (doi: 10.1007/s11571-016-9419-8).

2016:

Fields, C. (2016) Effective dark energy from decoherence. Theoretical Physics 1: 22-29 (doi: 10.22606/tp.2016.11006).

Fields, C. (2016) Building the observer into the system: Toward a realistic description of human interaction with the world. Systems 4: 32 [29 pp.] (doi: 10.3390/systems4040032).

Fields, C. (2016) Unitary quantum theory as a formal framework for a theory of consciousness. In: P. Saran Satsangi and S. Hameroff (Eds.) Consciousness: Integrating Eastern and Western Perspectives. New Delhi: New Age Books (pp. 127-146).

Fields, C. (2016) Decompositional equivalence: A fundamental symmetry underlying quantum theory. Axiomathes 26: 279-311 (doi: 10.1007/s10516-016-9289-z).

Fields, C. (2016) Nobel numbers: Time-dependent centrality measures on co-authorship graphs. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67: 2212-2222 (doi: 10.1002/asi.23547).

Fields, C. (2016) Editorial: How Humans Recognize Objects: Segmentation, Categorization and Individual Identification. Frontiers in Psychology: Perception Science 7: 400 [2 pp.] (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00400).

Fields, C. (2016) Visual re-identification of individual objects: A core problem for organisms and AI. Cognitive Processing 17: 1-13 (doi: 10.1007/s10339-015-0736-3).

2015:

Dietrich, E. and Fields, C. (2015) Science generates limit paradoxes. Axiomathes 25: 409-432 (doi: 10.1007/s10516-015-9267-x).

Fields, C. (2015) Reverse engineering the world: A commentary on Hoffman, Singh and Prakash, "The interface theory of perception". Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 22: 1526-1529 (doi: 10.3758/s13423-014-0742-y).

Fields, C. (2015) Co-authorship proximity of A. M. Turing Award and John von Neumann Medal winners to the disciplinary boundaries of computer science. Scientometrics 104: 809-825 (doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1575-9).

Fields, C. (2015) Close to the edge: Co-authorship proximity of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, 1991 - 2010, to cross-disciplinary brokers. Scientometrics 103: 267-299 (doi: 10.1007/s11192-015-1526-5).

Chernet, B. T., Fields, C. and Levin, M. (2015) Long-range gap junctional signaling controls oncogene-mediated tumorigenesis in Xenopus laevis embryos. Frontiers in Physiology: Biophysics 5: 519 [15 pp.] (doi: 10.3389/fphys.2014.00519). Interactive model associated with this paper.

Fields, C. (2015) How small is the center of science? Short cross-disciplinary cycles in co-authorship graphs. Scientometrics 102: 1287-1306 (doi: 10.1007/s11192-014-1468-3).

2014:

Fields, C. (2014) Motion, identity and the bias toward agency. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 8: 597 [13 pp.] (doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00597).

Fields, C. (2014) Some effects of the Human Genome Project on the Erdős collaboration graph. Journal of Humanistic Mathematics 4(2): 3-24 (doi: 10.5642/jhummath.201402.03).

Fields, C. (2014) Equivalence of the symbol grounding and quantum system identification problems. Information 5: 172-189 (doi: 10.3390/info5010172).

Fields, C. (2014) On the Ollivier-Poulin-Zurek definition of objectivity. Axiomathes 24: 137-156 (doi: 10.1007/s10516-013-9218-3).

Fields, C. (2014) A physics-based metaphysics is a metaphysics-based metaphysics. Acta Analytica 29: 131-148 (doi: 10.1007/s12136-013-0204-6).

Fields, C. (2014) Consistent quantum mechanics admits no mereotopology. Axiomathes 24: 9-18 (doi: 10.1007/s10516-012-9202-3).

Fields, C. (2014) This boundary-less world. In: D. Chopra (Ed.) Brain, Mind, Cosmos: The Nature of Our Existence and the Universe. Carlsbad, CA: Chopra Foundation. Ch. 13.

2013:

Fields, C. (2013) Review of The Transactional Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Ruth Kastner (Cambridge, 2013). Disputatio V(37): 361-367.

Fields, C. (2013) How humans solve the frame problem. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 25: 441-456 (doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2012.741624).

Fields, C. (2013) On recognizing an object with a partition. Logique et Analyse 56 (224): 391-403.

Fields, C. (2013) A whole box of Pandoras: Systems, boundaries and free will in quantum theory. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (Special Issue on Paradox and Mind) 25: 291-302 (doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2013.782981).

Fields, C. (2013) Metaphorical motion in mathematical reasoning: Further evidence for pre-motor implementation of structure mapping in abstract domains. Cognitive Processing 14: 217-229 (doi: 10.1007/s10339-013-0555-3).

Fields, C. (2013) The principle of persistence, Leibniz's law, and the computational task of object re-identification. Human Development 56: 147-166 (doi: 10.1159/000350206).

Fields, C. (2013) Bell's theorem from Moore's theorem. International Journal of General Systems 42: 376-385 (doi: 10.1080/03081079.2012.751382).

2012:

Fields, C. (2012) Implementation of classical communication in a quantum world. Information 3: 809-831 (doi: 10.3390/info3040809).

Fields, C. (2012) A model-theoretic interpretation of environment-induced superselection. International Journal of General Systems 41: 847-859 (doi: 10.1080/03081079.2012.707197).

Fields, C. (2012) Do autism spectrum disorders involve a generalized object categorization and identification dysfunction? Medical Hypotheses 79: 344-351 (doi: 10.1016/j.mehy.2012.05.032).

Fields, C. (2012) The very same thing: Extending the object token concept to incorporate causal constraints on individual identity. Advances in Cognitive Psychology 8: 234-247 (doi: 10.2478/v10053-008-0119-8).

Fields, C. (2012) Autonomy all the way down: Systems and dynamics in quantum Bayesianism. Physics and Philosophy 2012: 018 [27 pp.] (http://hdl.handle.net/2003/29402).

Fields, C. (2012) If physics is an information science, what is an observer? Information 3: 92-123 (doi: 10.3390/info3010092).

Fields, C. (2012) Motion as manipulation: Implementation of motion and force analogies by event-file binding and action planning. Cognitive Processing 13: 231-241 (doi: 10.1007/s10339-012-0436-1).

Fields, C. (2012) What humans can't do: A review of Derek Partridge, The Seductive Computer. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 24: 267-270 (doi: 10.1080/0952813X.2011.653101).

2011:

Fields, C. (2011) Classical system boundaries cannot be determined within quantum Darwinism. Physics Essays 24: 518-522 (doi: 10.4006/1.3644391).

Fields, C. (2011) Trajectory recognition as the basis for object individuation: A functional model of object file instantiation and object token encoding. Frontiers in Psychology: Perception Science 2: 49 [12 pp.] (doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00049).

de Boer, F. W. N. and Fields, C. (2011) A re-evaluation of evidence for light neutral bosons in nuclear emulsions. International Journal of Modern Physics E: Nuclear Physics 20: 1787-1803 (doi: 10.1142/S021830131101960X).

Fields, C. (2011) From "Oh, OK" to "Ah, yes" to "Aha!": Hyper-systemizing and the rewards of insight. Personality and Individual Differences 50: 1159-1167 (doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.010).

Fields, C. (2011) Implementation of structure mapping by event-file binding and action planning: A model of tool-improvisation analogies. Psychological Research 75: 129-142 (doi: 10.1007/s00426-010-0290-7).

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Fields, C. (2010) Quantum Darwinism requires an extra-theoretical assumption of encoding redundancy. International Journal of Theoretical Physics 49: 2523-2527 (doi: 10.1007/s10773-010-0443-x).

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