Sublime

Heisenberg imagined that electrons do not always exist. They only exist when someone or something watches them, or better, when they are interacting with something else. They materialize in a place, with a calculable probability, when colliding with something else. The “quantum leaps” from one orbit to another are the only means they have of being

He is using a conceptual reasoning that has a precise historical origin, Anaximander’s apeiron.

The main point, however, is not to strive for some abstract ideal of coherence. It is rather for all the participants to work together to become sensitive to all the possible forms of incoherence. Incoherence may be indicated by contradictions and confusion but more basically it is seen by the fact that our thinking is producing consequences that w

And as stated by another early 20th century quantum physicist, Sir James Jeans: “Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter…we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.”

instead, it must be regarded as an indivisible unit in which separate parts appear as valid approximations only in the classical [i.e., Newtonian] limit.… Thus, at the quantum level of accuracy, an object does not have any “intrinsic” properties

A basic notion for a dialogue would be for people to sit in a circle. Such a geometric arrangement doesn’t favor anybody; it allows for direct communication. In principle, the dialogue should work without any leader and without any agenda.

Second, however, there is the interactive process we call observership, that transforms some of what might be into what does happen.

Inwieweit trägt unser Erleben – unsere eigene Erfahrung, nicht ein theoretisches Modell von ihr – Züge der Quantenmechanik?