The orthodox Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics, an epistemological model based on the phenomenology of measurement, and the statistical evolution of state, has been known from its inception to be incomplete. Consciousness is considered a hard problem by defining brain states of awareness as the fundamental property from which to formulate a science of consciousness. A deeper ontolo...

In ‘inverse problems’ data from indirect measurements are used to estimate unknown parameters of physical systems. Uncertain data, (possibly vague) prior information on model parameters, and a physical theory relating the model parameters to the observations are the fundamental elements of any inverse problem. Using concepts from probability theory, a consistent formulation of inverse problems ...

This paper addresses systematic variations in the interpretation of indefinites and plurals when appearing within prepositional phrases and other spatial expressions. We show that these variations are explained when spatial processes in semantics locate the sets associated with properties and other setbased denotations of nominals. Starting with spatial indefinites we consider contrasts like th...

Bayesian theory now incorporates a vast body of mathematical, statistical and computational techniques that are widely applied in a panoply of disciplines, from artificial intelligence to zoology. Yet Bayesians rarely agree on the basics, even on the question of what Bayesianism actually is. This book is about the basics — about the opportunities, questions and problems that face Bayesianism to...

To celebrate the 60th birthday of Charles H. Bennett I (1) publicly announce my referee reports for the original dense coding and telepor-tation papers, (2) present a very economical solution to the Bernstein-Vazirani problem that does not even hint at interference between multiple universes, and (3) describe how I inadvertently reinvented the Copen-hagen interpretation in the course of constru...

We show that if space is compact, then trajectories cannot be defined in the framework of the quantum Hamilton–Jacobi (HJ) equation. The starting point is the simple observation that when the energy is quantised it is not possible to make variations with respect to the energy, and the time parameterisation t − t0 = ∂ES0, implied by Jacobi’s theorem, which leads to the group velocity, is ill def...

1. ABSTRACT Quantum mechanics is the theory used to 'describe' the processes that take place in the micro-world. From the start quantum mechanics has been a 'strange' theory, in the sense that it seemed to contradict in various ways the image of a micro-world consisting of 'objects' moving around in a three dimensional space, and interacting with each other in this three dimensional space. So f...

The success of SNP-SIG 2013 (Berlin, Germany), as confirmed by the number of participants and the interesting discussions, indicated the great interest of the community in the automatic annotation of genomic variants. SNP-SIG 2013 sessions focused on the annotation and prediction of structural/functional impacts of SNPs (morning session) and on the disease and evolution-related SNP perspectives...

Although regression analysis has a great history, we consider that it has always continued being confused. For example, the fundamental terms in regression analysis (e.g., ”regression”, ”least-squares method”, ”explanatory variable”, ”response variable”, etc.) seem to be historically conventional, that is, these words do not express the essence of regression analysis. Recently, we proposed quan...

Background: The Copenhagen Burnout Inventory (CBI) is a public domain questionnaire measuring the degree of psychological fatigue experienced in three subdimensions of Burnout: personal (PB), work-related (WB), and client-related Burnout (CB). The study aimed to examine the acceptability, reliability and construct validity of the Spanish version of CBI. Method: The study population consisted of...