Chris Fields Research
Allen Discovery Center, Tufts University
Caunes Minervois, France
Mesilla, NM, USA
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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:
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. Korde
,
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).
2010:
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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