Recent work in social psychology and experimental philosophy has suggested that moral considerations (praise vs. blame) can influence judgments about the intentional status of an act, contradicting both lay and legal assumptions about the relationship between theory of mind and morality. A corollary of this account suggests that different assessments of intentional action should emerge whenever...

The Kochen-Specker (KS) theorem is a fundamental result in quantum foundations that has spawned massive interest since its inception. We present state-independent non-contextuality inequalities with large violations, particular, we exploit connection between proofs and pseudo-telepathy games to show KS Hilbert spaces of dimension $d \geq 2^{17}$ the ratio value classical bias being $O(\sqrt{d}/...

Samir Kunkri, ∗ Guruprasad Kar, † Sibasish Ghosh, ‡ and Anirban Roy § Physics and Applied Mathematics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203 B.T. Road, Kolkata 700 108, India Department of Computer Science , The University of York, Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, Trieste, Italy, 34014 (Dated: February ...

The sense of being stared at, or scopesthesia, was investigated experimentally with participants working in pairs. Two participants were tested repeatedly and the effect of attentional transition was investigated. In some tests, in the pre-trial period the starer stared at the staree, who was blindfolded, and in others the starer did not stare during the pre-trial period. Their overall hit rate...

Although experimental evidence for retrocausation exists, there are clearly subtleties to the phenomenon. The bilking paradox, in which one intervenes to eliminate a subsequent cause after a preceding effect has occurred, appears on the surface to show that retrocausation is logically impossible. In a previous paper, the second law of thermodynamics was invoked to show that the entropy in each ...

This thesis studies the consequences of 'super-quantum non-local correlations', which are hypothetical violations of Bell/CHSH inequalities that are stronger more nonlocal than quantum mechanics allows, yet weak enough to respect special relativity in prohibiting faster-than-light communication. Understanding the power of such correlations will yield insight into the non-locality of quantum mec...

Superposed state of quantum registers can be used to describe inflationary universe. One can speak of a quantum superposition of universes during inflation. It has been proposed by Zizzi that a cosmic consciousness event happened at the end of inflation which acted as a blueprint for the future minds to come. The post inflationary universe organized itself into quantum and classical modes. I pr...