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    A Relational Time-Symmetric Framework for Analyzing the Quantum Computational Speedup
    with G. Castagnoli, A. K. Ekert, and A. C. Elitzur
    Foundations of Physics 49 (10): 1200-1230. 2019.
    The usual representation of quantum algorithms is limited to the process of solving the problem. We extend it to the process of setting the problem. Bob, the problem setter, selects a problem-setting by the initial measurement. Alice, the problem solver, unitarily computes the corresponding solution and reads it by the final measurement. This simple extension creates a new perspective from which to see the quantum algorithm. First, it highlights the relevance of time-symmetric quantum mechanics …Read more
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    My self as an other: on autoimmunity and “other” paradoxes
    Medical Humanities 30 (1): 7-11. 2004.
    The nineteenth century science of teratology concerned itself with the study of malformations or “monstrosities”, as they were then called. The first major contribution to the field was the work of Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Histoire Generale et Particulière des Anomalies de l’Organisation chez l’Homme et les Animaux, published in 1832, whose classifications formed the basis for the later experimental science of teratogeny, the art of reproducing monstrosities in animal embryos. In this art…Read more