Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano

Italian theoretical physicist at the University of Pavia working in quantum foundations and quantum information theory, known for programmes deriving quantum theory from information-theoretic principles. In the vault he is the physicist half of Quantum Information Panpsychism: co-author with Federico Faggin of the 2020 paper "Hard Problem and Free Will: an information-theoretical approach" (arXiv:2012.06580), where the two coin the theory's name and build its mechanism — that experience is unshareable, and only nonclassical (quantum) information can be read or copied without disturbance, so consciousness requires quantum information. He is the primary-source anchor that lets the vault attribute QIP to its actual authors rather than to a summarizer.

References

• claim-quantum-information-panpsychism-is-dariano-and-faggins-own-term
• claim-qip-grounds-private-qualia-in-quantum-no-cloning
• claim-faggin-4004-designer-argues-classical-silicon-cannot-be-conscious

Updates

• 2026-08-07: Page created at promotion of the Irreducible quote-verification capture — the first vault entity page for D'Ariano, drawn from his and Faggin's own primary paper.