You Matter More Than You Think: Quantum Social Change for a Thriving World

quantum entanglement has a specific meaning in quantum systems, where information about separated particles is revealed when a measurement is made on one of them, even though no information passes between them. This non-local relationship can be described as correlated (or “co-related”) rather than causal.

Efforts to end slavery, promote women’s rights and civil rights, establish labor rights, support marriage equality, and protect animal rights are not necessarily the result of paradigm shifts, but rather the outcomes of people thinking, being, and acting differently.

superposition refers to all possible states of a phenomenon existing at the same time,

Transformation can be defined as significant changes in form, structure, or meaning-making. It can also be described as a much deeper process, including “the unleashing of human potential to commit, care, and affect change for a better life.”16

However, Ken Wilber argues that it is the other way around: that the biosphere is actually part of the noosphere. The reasoning here is that in the same way that the biosphere emerged from and includes the geosphere (or “physiosphere”), the noosphere emerged from (and includes) the organizational structure of the biosphere. This evolutionary distin

Quantum social science tells us that individuals are always “indeterminate” and full of potential.

As Thomas Kuhn notes, paradigm shifts occur when enough people start to live their lives on the basis of that new paradigm, without waiting for the rest of society to make the shift.35 In

David Bohm notes that it can be difficult to see alternative worldviews within the existing structure of our language and meaning-making.

How we relate to ourselves, each other, the environment, and the future creates patterns that tend to repeat themselves in a systematic manner, shaping both social and material structures and enabling or constraining the kinds of change we are able to achieve.