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Antoine Suarez

Antoine Suarez is a Swiss physicist and philosopher working on the foundation of quantum physics, anthropology, and questions at the boundary of science and theology.

Biography
He was born (Antonio Suarez Canal) in Allariz (Spain) and is citizen of Zürich (Switzerland). He obtained a Master in Theoretical Physics at the University of Zaragoza (1967) and a Master in Experimental Physics at the University of Fribourg (1969). Thereafter he went on to complete a Ph. D. at the ETH Zürich (Swiss Institute of Technology) in 1975.

Work and Research
Antoine Suarez is one of the uncommon authors who has contributed to science, anthropology, bioethics and theology with relevant achievements. His work shows how science may contribute to clarify crucial philosophical and theological questions.

Quantum Physics
During 1988 he came in contact with John Bell at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. With John’s support and collaboration, he promoted the activity of the Center for Quantum Philosophy, upholding talks in CERN and in various European universities. Particular mention deserves a colloquium organized at CERN on January 22, 1990, to discuss the philosophical implications of famous Bell's theorem. Here was produced the only film where Bell himself explains his theorem:


 * CERN: Colloquium on "Indeterminism and Nonlocality"


 * Bell himself explains the implications of his inequality

Asked whether he thought that relativity and quantum mechanics could be incompatible, John Bell answered:


 * "No, I can't say that, because I think someone will find one day a way of saying that they are compatible. But I haven't seen it yet. To me, it's very hard to put them together, but I think somebody will put them together, and we'll just see that my imagination was too limited."

This answer stimulated Antoine Suarez to investigate in depth the tension between quantum mechanics and relativity as a main project of the Center for Quantum Philosophy (Zürich and Geneva).

He has proposed experiments demonstrating that:
 * There is no time ordering behind quantum correlations, they come from outside space-time (Before-Before experiment).


 * The principle of nonlocality rules the whole quantum physics and is present already in “single-particle” experiments. In this sense quantum nonlocality goes beyond Bell’s nonlocality, which is a characteristic of experiments involving “2 or more particles” experiments. The principles ruling the material world (like the conservation of energy) require non-material coordination (Single-photon space-like antibunching experiment).


 * Quantum nonlocal and relativistic local correlations can be described in a unified way: Both assume free will and happen without continuous connection in space-time (Single-photon space-like Michelson Morley experiment).

These experiments have been realized by Nicolas Gisin’s Group of Applied Physics (GAP) at Geneva University.

Philosophy, anthropology, bioethics, and theology
He has edited books discussing the philosophical implications of quantum physics, neuroscience and mathematics :


 * Is Science compatible with free will?, Exploring Free Will and Consciousness in the Light of Quantum Physics and Neuroscience, Antoine Suarez and Peter Adams (Eds.), Springer: New York, 2013.


 * On the basis of presentations delivered at the Expert meeting organized by the Social Trends Institute:Is Science Compatible with Our Desire for Freedom?, IESE, Barcelona, October 28-30, 2010. Antoine Suarez was the meeting's Academic Leader.


 * Mathematical Undecidability, Quantum Nonlocality and the Question of the Existence of God, Alfred Driessen and Antoine Suarez, Eds., Springer (Kluwer): Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1997.


 * Containing presentations delivered at the two Experts meetings:Naturherrschaft, Cologne, Mai 11-13, 1990 and Naturwissenschaft und Weltbild, Vienna, January 15-17, 1991.

He has edited a book discussing the status human cell entities and proposing criteria to distinguish embryos from non embryos:


 * Is this cell a human being? Exploring the Status of Embryos, Stem Cells and Human-Animal Hybrids, Antoine Suarez and Joachim Huarte (Eds.), Springer: Heidelberg, 2011.


 * On the basis of presentations delivered at the Expert meeting organized by the Social Trends Institute:“Focus on the Embryo” IESE, Barcelona, January 23-25, 2009. Antoine Suarez was the meeting's Academic Leader.

Outstanding scientists and authors have contributed to these books and participated in the experts-meetings like for instance:

Antonio Acín, John S. Bell, Gilles Brassard, Nicolas Gisin, Gregory Chaitin, Martin Heisenberg, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Robert Kane(philosopher), Alfred R. Mele, Giulio Tononi, Herwig Schopper, Paul Davies,, Hans Schöler, William B. Hurlbut, Nicanor Austriaco, Luís Cabral, Robert O. Doyle, Leonardo Fogassi, Jana M. Iverson, Flavio Keller, Zeeya Merali, Jean Staune, Patrick Lee, Pablo Requena Meana, Manfred Spieker, Tito Arecchi, Alfred Driessen, Mark Fox, Wolfgang Kummer, Peter Mittelstaedt, Hans-Christian Reichel, Anton Zeilinger, Karl Sigmund, Dietmar Stehlik.

Antoine Suarez himself has contributed to these books with different chapters arguing that:


 * Quantum randomness can be controlled by free-will.


 * The classical proofs of the existence of God can be improved on the basis of quantum nonlocality and mathematical undecidability.


 * On the basis of anomalies that Direct Inhibit the Appearance of Neural Activity (DIANA anomalies) one can derive criteria for defining death, and deciding about the status of stem cells and the inner cell mass.

He has authored and co-authored articles and essays in peer-reviewed journals of theology, philosophy, moral philosophy, bioethics, medicine, law, psychology, as for instance arguing that:


 * Christian faith does not require that the first sin (which induced the state of original sin) was the misdeed of a single man and woman from whom all mankind is genetically descended:Science & Christian Belief 57(1), 2015.


 * It is possible to bridge the economic and political assumptions of Liberalism with the Catholic social teaching on the basis of the principles of “person” and “the universal good of humanity”: Journal of Markets & Morality Volume 16, Number 1 (Spring 2013): 85–99.


 * Spontaneous movements and the principle of conservation of personal identity are the basis to ascertain the presence of a human spiritual soul and a human person: Explaining “what is” requires claims about “what ought to be”: Acta Philosophica, 2 (1993) 105-125. and Annales Theologici, Volume 4 / 1 (1990) 69-107


 * The cellular differentiation in the embryo does not depend on information coming from the mother’s organism. A biological theorem: Médecine et Hygiène (Geneva), 51 (1993) 399-401 and The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Houston), 15 (1990) 627-635.


 * The human body is the basic title for assigning rights: The personal rights hold for each human being independently of genome, culture, health, religion: Schweizerische Juristenzeitung, (Zurich) 12 (1990) 205-211.


 * The relationship between knowledge and action in cognitive development: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Psychologie 39 (1980) 209-220 and Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Psychologie 39 (1980) 177-199 American Psychology Asociation.

Cognitive Development
After his PhD he worked at the Institute of Behavioral Science (Verhaltenswissenschaft) of ETH. He studied cognitive development on the basis of the genetic epistemology of Jean Piaget, and applied this research to the teaching of science and mathematics in school. In particular he invented educational games to introduce the concepts of function and mapping at the primary school. This work was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, and the Limmat Stiftung.

Lectures in videos
“Adam and Eve: The magic of evolution”.

“Nonlocality and free will vs. Many worlds and determinism the material world emerges from outside space-time”.

“Nonlocality at detection, quantum life and consciousness”.