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Being and Nothing
Date published: 2023-05-10
Date modified: 2023-05-10
Reading time: 00:01:02
“Only those who attempt the absurd
will achieve the impossible.”
M.C. Escher
The only thing more difficult than Escher's perception of the Moebius strip that illustrates this article is the book by Jean-Paul Sartre that gives it its name.
It is Sartre's philosophy that leads me to address one of mankind's deepest quests, from the perspective of quantum mechanics: what separates being from nothingness?
Imagine a country house on one of the most beautiful fjords in Norway. Now fill that house with the greatest minds on the planet. Yes. This really happened.
In between the tumultuous years of trying to understand quantum mechanics, Niels Bohr -who was Danish- received his guests in a very simple house he kept in Norway. Heisenberg was one of the constant presences and fondly remembers these stays in his book Physics & Beyond.
One of the parameters that these brilliant minds adopted when discussing this distant and beautiful physics was the division of the scope of human knowledge. For them, there was the known, the unknown, and the unknowable.
Makes perfect sense.
Specifically for Heisenberg, phenomena do not have an intrinsic nature because they do not pass from non-existence to existence. Obviously, phenomena are not non-existent, but their perception depends on the observer. Even more: it depends on the network formed by the interrelation of more or less stable patterns.
The problem is that, just as we tend to confuse map and territory, we tend to dogmatize the stability of a pattern, attributing to it an ultimate reality.
And a dogma is nothing more than a postulate arrogantly proposed in the Arrow of Time.
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