A short introduction
Dr. Pienaar is a quantum physicist working at the QBism group, led by Prof. Chris Fuchs, at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. He has a B.Sc. (Hons) and a Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He has also done postdocs at the IQOQI Vienna (Austrian Academy of Sciences), in the group of Prof. Caslav Brukner, and at the IIP-UFRN, Natal, Brazil.Publications:
Panel discussion: the role of the observer, the double-slit experiment, the reality of physical laws, etc.
The participants of Essentia Foundation’s 2022 work conference, on the physics of first-person perspective, discuss whether there are objective physical laws out there in nature, whether the double-slit and similar experiments capture the essence of quantum mechanics, whether the scientific method demands inter-subjective confirmation, and what constitutes an observing agent under Quantum Bayesianism. This video completes our coverage of the 2022 conference. Stay tuned for news about the upcoming 2023 conference, which promises to be even more exciting!
Quantum Bayesianism and the embodied agent
Dr. Jacques Pienaar discusses the notion of an embodied agent in the context of Quantum Bayesianism (‘QBism,’ for short). QBism is an interpretation of quantum mechanics according to which the wave function represents simply what we know about reality—a kind of betting strategy about what we will see next—as opposed to reality itself.
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