Rickles, Dean (2023) Your Cosmos Needs You! From Nothingness to Quantum Existentialism. [Preprint]

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A deeper meaning for quantum theory is presented, integrating recent developments in participatory realist approaches to quantum mechanics with older ideas involving ineffability and nothingness. I argue that Schelling's notion of the Godhead serves as a useful way of interpreting a superposition which then grounds both our freedom and the indeterminacy of quantum phenomena that makes the theory function.

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Item Type:	Preprint
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID Rickles, Dean dean.rickles@sydney.edu.au
Additional Information:	To appear in D. Rickles and L. Stein (eds.), Varieties of Nothingness (Chiron Publishers, 2024).
Keywords:	Participatory realism; Schelling; Creation; John Wheeler
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Depositing User:	Dr Dean Rickles
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2024 01:56
Last Modified:	02 Mar 2024 01:56
Item ID:	23115
Subjects:	General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Gravity Specific Sciences > Physics > Quantum Mechanics
Date:	2023
URI:	https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/23115

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