What Makes You You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are

You may think of yourself as a body moving independently through the world, but you are interconnected with and part of everything around you.

As Barad spoke, I experienced something extraordinary. For a few brief moments, as her words hung in the air above us in the darkened auditorium, I understood quantum physics. And when she stopped speaking, that understanding was gone. It was a product of intra-action too. I was left with the sense that while I would never really understand quantum

The head and the feet are different, but not separate, and though man is not connected to the universe by exactly the same physical relation as branch to tree or feet to head, he is nonetheless connected—and by physical relations of fascinating complexity.

More intriguing still are differences that relate to experiences of selfhood.