Emily Adlam is a postdoctoral associate at the Rotman Institute for Philosophy of Science at the University of Western Ontario. She recevied her PhD in relativistic quantum information from the University of Cambridge. Prior to that she completed the Perimeter Scholar’s International programme in theoretical physics, and she did her undergraduate degree in physics and philosophy at the Univeristy of Oxford. She works on the foundations of quantum mechanics and related issues in the philosophy of science, and she is particularly interested in approaches to physics which go beyond the time evolution paradigm – encompassing a range of possibilities like temporal non-locality, retrocausality, and all-at-once laws.
Emily Adlam
Postdoctoral Associate, Rotman Institute for Philosophy of Science, University of Western Ontario
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Sat
Oct 15th
2022
Oct 15th
2022
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Coding and the New Human Phenotype
From the level of DNA to that of phenotype, life may be viewed as an articulation of code. Within such a model, phenotypes are a kind of abstraction of the DNA code. Starting with the genome, the DNA winds its way through RNA, proteins, and cellular process outward into the world beyond, and in the... read more! »
Sun
Oct 16th
2022
Oct 16th
2022
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Coding and the New Human Phenotype: Is the Universe a Metaverse?
Our panel will discuss the suggestion that we have been living in a sort of metaverse all along. This claim starts with the notion that the Universe evolves as one giant algorithmic computation, and that information is the basic substance. A variation on this line of thought asks the question: could we be living in... read more! »