The Giants Shoulder #98 Chris Fields: Whats Wrong With Quantum Mechanics, Cellular Intelligence and Consciousness
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Feb 26, 2026 Chris Fields, an independent researcher who moved from nuclear physics and genomics to quantum information, offers a whirlwind tour of boundaries, communication and life. He explores why objects are decisions, how quantum theory reframes interactions as information exchange, whether cells act as goal-directed information processors, and if single cells can represent 3D space.
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Nuclear Experiments Sparked Interest In Boundaries
- Fields recounts his nuclear physics work where different descriptive models converged on the same measurable state.
- He uses nuclear excitation examples (rotational, vibrational, particle excitations) to show how diverse pictures map to identical energies.
Objects Are Decisions Not Discoveries
- Identifying objects is an active decision, not a passive discovery.
- Chris Fields explains infants learn to draw boundaries by mixing sensory signals to decide what counts as an object.
Quantum Theory As A Theory Of Communication
- Quantum theory shifted from atomic physics to a general theory of communication and information.
- Fields traces entanglement experiments and black hole work that recast physics in informational terms and enabled quantum computing ideas.