Author: Milovan Janicijevic
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🌊 The Importance of Context, or Why Watching from the Shore Cannot Replace Sailing the Dirac Sea
The Kochen–Specker Theorem and the Limits of a Pre-Determined Quantum Reality In our previous voyage across the Dirac Sea, we explored Bell’s inequality. We saw that nature does not allow the simple picture in which distant quantum systems merely carry a pre-arranged set of local values that measurement subsequently reveals. The experimental violation of Bell…
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🌊 The Inequality That Split the Dirac Sea: Bell’s Inequality
From the EPR Paradox to the Experimental Challenge to Local Realism There are moments in the history of physics when a relatively simple relation creates a deeper fracture in our understanding of the world than an entire library of philosophical debate. Bell’s inequality is precisely such a case. Its importance does not lie in telling…
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🌊 Dirac Sea: Where Does Locality End?
From the Non-Radiating Electron, Through the Aharonov–Bohm Effect, to a New Question About Causality in Quantum Field Theory In classical electrodynamics, there is something almost reassuring in the clear relationship between cause and effect. A change in the distribution of charge or current cannot be felt instantaneously at an arbitrary distance. Electromagnetic influence propagates at…
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Back to the Future: Does an Optimized World Leave Room for the Human Being?
In the first two parts of our mini-series, we explored ideas that once seemed futuristic. Setun showed that even binary logic was not the only possible path for the development of computing, while OGAS attempted to go much further and treat an entire national economy as a cybernetic system that could be measured, modeled, and…
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Setun: The Ternary Computer That Arrived Too Early
This is the first article in a three-part mini-series on Soviet cybernetics, computing, and projects that were, in many respects, far ahead of their time. The idea is not simply to return to the history of technology, but to use these pioneering projects as a way to better understand our present moment of rapidly accelerating…
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AI and the Art of Manipulation: How Intelligence Models and Controls Us
When we talk about the dangers of artificial intelligence, we almost instinctively imagine a machine turning against humanity. The images are familiar: Terminator, a war between humans and machines, autonomous systems that stop obeying their creators. But perhaps that picture is too simple. Perhaps the most powerful intelligence will not try to defeat us by…
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🦆 Ducks, Evolution, and the Invisible Bond Between Living Beings
Motherhood and the First Face We See There is a scene that all of us have seen many times, so ordinary that we often accept it without giving it much thought. A female duck glides across the surface of a lake, followed by several small ducklings moving behind her in an almost perfectly ordered line.…