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

For many of us, our relationships to concepts and ideas such as self, other, and nature have been influenced by a classical, mechanistic view of the world. Relationships within a quantum system are characterized by entanglement, uncertainty, indeterminism, and potentiality.

Your body is not separate from the body of the universe, because at quantum mechanical levels there are no well-defined edges. You are like a wiggle, a wave, a fluctuation, a convolution, a whirlpool, a localized disturbance in the larger quantum field. The larger quantum field — the universe — is your extended body. Not only is the human nervous s