I Am a Particle and a Wave

Danah Zohar ()
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Danah Zohar: The Chinese Academy of Art

Chapter Chapter 8 in Zero Distance, 2022, pp 89-93 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Perhaps the best known insight of quantum physics is that light, and all other entities in the physical universe, is both particle like and wave like at the same time. This chapter extends that principle to ourselves, arguing that we are both particle-like, distinct individuals, and wave-like social beings defined by our relationships. Thus chapter critiques both both Western radical individualism, and Eastern collectivism, and offers a model of “the quantum self” as a bridge between East & West. And the wave/particle, dual nature, of the self thus sets up the later discussion of how independent, self-organizing teams in companies are both separate entities in their own right and collaborating elements within the larger company system. Same applies to us as private individuals who are also citizens, and nations which are sovereign in their own right and at the same time constituent members of a larger global order.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-7849-3_8

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