Papers and Presentations

Foundations (Physics)

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2009

  • Quantum mechanics explained. International Journal of Quantum Information 7 (1), 435–458, quant-ph/0607005 [PDF].
  • A fuzzy world, in The Nature Description in Quantum Field Theory, edited by Ignazio Licata & Ammar Sakaji, Springer.
  • Objective probability and quantum fuzziness, Foundations of Physics 39 (2),  137–155, quant-ph/0703035 [PDF].

2008

  • The Controversy over the Nature of Time-Symmetric Quantum Counterfactuals: A Response to Kastner. arXiv:0801.2215 [PDF].

2006

  • Defending the Pondicherry interpretation: A response to Shafiee, Jafar-Aghdami, and Golshani, quant-ph/0611055 [PDF].
  • Is the end in sight for theoretical pseudophysics?, in New Topics in Quantum Physics Research, edited by V. Krasnoholovets and F. Columbus (Nova Science), quant-ph/0305095 [PDF].

2005

  • The Pondicherry interpretation of quantum mechanics: An overview, PRAMANA—Journal of Physics 64 (2), 171–185, quant-ph/0412182 [PDF].
  • Comment on “Quantum physics from A to Z”, quant-ph/0508212 [PDF].

2004

  • Do quantum states evolve? Apropos of Marchildon’s remarks, Foundations of Physics 34 (1), 75–97, quant-ph/0307113 [PDF].
  • This elusive objective existence, International Journal of Quantum Information 2 (2), 201–220, quant-ph/0401179 [PDF].
  • Probabilities from envariance?, International Journal of Quantum Information 2 (2), 221–230, quant-ph/0401180 [PDF].

2002

  • The world according to quantum mechanics, or the 18 errors of Henry P. Stapp, Foundations of Physics 32 (2), 217–254, quant-ph/0105097 [PDF].
  • Reflections on the spatiotemporal aspects of the quantum world, Modern Physics Letters A 17 (1517), 1107–1122, quant-ph/0205058 [PDF] (invited talk at the First Meeting on the Interface of Gravitational and Quantum Realms held at IUCAA, Pune, India, December 17–21, 2001).
  • Making sense of a world of clicks, Foundations of Physics 32 (8), 1295–1311 (2002), quant-ph/0202148 [PDF].
  • Why the laws of physics are just so, Foundations of Physics 32 (8), 1313–1324 (2002), quant-ph/0202149 [PDF].

2001

  • Objective probabilities, quantum counterfactuals, and the ABL rule: A response to R. E. Kastner, American Journal of Physics 69 (8), 864–873, quant-ph/0006116 [PDF].
  • Quantum mechanics and consciousness: fact and fiction, quant-ph/0102047 [PDF].
  • Unveiled reality: comment on d’Espagnat’s note on measurement, quant-ph/0102103 [PDF].
  • A space for the quantum world, quant-ph/0107005 [PDF].
  • Two theories of decoherence, quant-ph/0108002 [PDF].
  • Against “knowledge”, quant-ph/0109150 [PDF].

2000

  • What quantum mechanics is trying to tell us, American Journal of Physics 68 (8), 728–745, quant-ph/9903051 [PDF].
  • The One, the Many, and the Quantum, quant-ph/0005110 [PDF].
  • Quantum mechanics and the cookie cutter paradigm, quant-ph/0009001 [PDF].

1999 and before

  • Objectivity, retrocausation, and the experiment of Englert, Scully and Walther, American Journal of Physics 67 (4), 330–335 (1999).
  • The physics of interactionism, Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 (8–9), 165–184 (1999); reprinted in The Volitional Brain, edited by B. Libet, A. Freeman, and K. Sutherland (Imprint Academic, 1999), 165–184 [PDF].
  • Quantum mechanics and elements of reality, quant-ph/9904081 [PDF].
  • Interactionism, energy conservation, and the violation of physical laws, Physics Essays 10 (4), 651–665 (1997) [PDF].
  • Restoration of interference and the fallacy of delayed choice: concerning an experiment proposed by Englert, Scully and Walther, American Journal of Physics 64 (12), 1468–1475 (1996).

Interface between physics and Indian philosophy/psychology

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2012

  • Quantum Physics and Integral Knowledge. Presented at the International Seminar on Integral Paradigm and Other Approaches to Knowledge, organized by University of Human Unity, Auroville, January 5–8, 2012. [PDF]

2011

  • Indian psychology to the rescue: Why quantum physics makes perfect sense after all. Presentation at the National Conference on Individual and Collective Transformation: Insights from Indian Psychology, organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, in collaboration with India International Center (IIC), February 5–7, 2011. [PDF]

2010

  • Quantum Mechanics for Philosophers. Invited lecture at the Centre of Sri Aurobindo Studies, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, February 2010.
  • Spiritual Dimensions of Reality. Invited lecture at the Centre of Sri Aurobindo Studies, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, February 2010 [PDF].
  • Top-Down Quantum Realism. Lecture at the Department of Physics, Bose Institute, Centre for Astroparticle Physics and Space Science, Kolkata, February 2010.

2009

  • Quantum Ontology: Some Dos and Don’ts, Presentation for an invited talk delivered at the Fifth Nalanda Dialogue on Buddhism & Science at Nava Nalanda Mahavira, Nalanda, India, October 2009 [PDF].
  • Spiritual Physics, Jadavpur Journal of Philosophy 19 (1), 147–160. Invited lecture at the Centre of Sri Aurobindo Studies, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, January 2009. Republished in AntiMatters 3 (1), 59–70 [PDF].
  • An Aurobindonian Discourse. The second of two invited lectures delivered at the Centre of Sri Aurobindo Studies, Department of Philosophy, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, January 2009. In AntiMatters 3 (1), 71–81 [PDF].
  • The Veil of Avidya. In Understanding Consciousness: Recent Advances, papers read at a seminar held at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India (Kolkata: RMIC, 2009) [PDF].

2008

  • Evolution of consciousness according to Jean Gebser, AntiMatters 2 (3), 51–78 [PDF].
  • Indian Psychology’s Coming of Age (Report on the National Seminar on Indian Psychology: Theories and Models, SVYASA, Bangalore, India, 26–28 December 2007), Journal of Consciousness Studies 15 (5), 121–126.
  • Beyond Natural Selection and Intelligent Design: Sri Aurobindo’s Theory of Evolution, AntiMatters 2 (2), 9–31 [PDF].
  • Radical constructivism — childhood’s end, AntiMatters 2 (1), 17–25 [PDF].
  • Realism: the bane of science education, and what can be done about it, AntiMatters 2 (1), 27–37 [PDF].
  • There’s no leaving the bubble of consciousness: Herbert Müller’s 0-D epistemology, AntiMatters 2 (1), 39–45 [PDF].
  • As far as longing can reach… Presented at Sri Aurobindo… The New Dynamism of the Material and the Spiritual, conference held at Auroville, India, February 15–17, 2008 [PDF].
  • Wrong reasons and right reasons why contemporary physics favors a spiritual world view. Presented at World Congress on Psychology and Spirituality, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, 5–8 January 2008 [PPSX, PPT].

2007

  • The Transparent Brain. Presented at National Seminar on Indian Psychology: Theories and Models, SVYASA, Bangalore, India, 26–28 December 2007 [PDF].
  • Beyond the Central Dogma of Physics, Science in Society 34, 29–31 [PDF].
  • Fodor on Adaptationism, AntiMatters 1 (2), 55–60 [PDF].
  • Sewell on Darwinism and the Second Law, AntiMatters 1 (2), 61–70 [PDF].
  • Inside the Spirit Matrix: A Contextualization of Contemporary Physics, presented at Approaches to Mind Sciences Emanating from Indian Culture, conference organized by the Department of Psychology, University of Delhi, India, January 27–29, 2007 [PDF].
  • The Physics of Sachchidananda, presented at The Collective Yoga of Man: A World in Process, conference held at Auroville, India, January 12–14, 2007 [PDF], reprinted in Ribhu 4 (1), 2007, 54–61 and Sutra 1 (1), 2008, 124–128.
  • Particles, consciousness, volition: a Vedantic vision, AntiMatters 1 (1), 23–53 [PDF].
  • The Quantum World, the Mind, and the Cookie Cutter Paradigm, AntiMatters 1 (1), 55–90 [PDF].

2005

  • Beyond causality… the quantum liberation, presented at the National Conference on Integral Psychology and… Transformation, Auroville, India, January 11–13, 2005 [PDF].
  • What the bleep do we know?, Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture, December, 1124–1131 [PDF].

2004

  • Psychology all the way down, presented at the National Conference on Indian Psychology, Yoga, and Consciousness, Pondicherry, India, December 10–13, 2004 [PDF].

2001

  • Beyond the cookie cutter paradigm, in Consciousness and its Transformation: Papers presented at the Second International Conference on Integral Psychology, edited by M. Cornelissen (SAICE, Pondicherry), 333–345 [PDF].

1999 and before

  • Sri Aurobindo for Gebserians, presented at the XI International Gebser Conference, University of Shippensburg, PA, USA, November 1992 [PDF].
  • Agenda of an Integral Consciousness Mutation / World Transformation, presented at the XI International Gebser Conference, University of Shippensburg, PA, USA, November 1992 [PDF].