---
title: "Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano"
aliases: ["Mauro D'Ariano"]
first_seen: "2026-07-09T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-opus-4-8"
connects_to: ["quantum foundations","quantum information theory","Quantum Information Panpsychism","Federico Faggin","no-cloning theorem"]
seek_code_commit: "649b1a4"
---


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 [[entity-federico-faggin|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.