Dogstoyevski

Does it take being crazy, or at least a bit dizzy, to think in quantum-mechanical terms?

Humans habitually imagine time, space and objects with 'smoothing turned on'. We merge the quantized 24 (still) frames per second of a movie into a continuous flow.

If we habitually turn the smoothing off, using spiritual disciplines (or drugs), we depart the current habitual consensus reality.

But... as Lao Tzu and others contended thousands of years ago... words only exist discretely... in brackets of silence.

In quantum terms... information and information systems are all about a natural, healthy quantum state where things must be eperientially discrete (quantized) in order to be processed and experienced.

Of course... if we lose track of consensual reality... we lose track of each other... we lose track of hurtling objects and the need to avoid them... we lose track of dinner... simple things like that.

Part of the problem of theoretical science is that the mathematics we use to model and understand our world is also a quantum-mechanical information system, and thus our very models can get self-reflexive and muddled... are we talking about our world or about our quantized models of the world?

Part of our solution to this muddle can come from the emerging systems-literate culture where many of are becoming comfortable with the quantum nature of all we experience... all we know.

Well... that CAN be dizzying.

Here is some well-placed humor on that theme.