The nuclear scientist David Bohm has said that an electron is not an entity in itself, but is made of all the other electrons. This is a manifestation of the nature of paratantra, the nature of interbeing. There are no separate entities, there are only manifestations that rely on each other to be possible. It's like the left and the right. The right is not a separate entity that can exist by itself alone. Without the left, the right cannot be. Everything is like that. [p. 25]
Buddha Mind, Buddha Body: Walking Toward Enlightenment, Thich Nhat Hanh
It turned out that quantum entities are very different from the objects that we can see and touch. . . . [L]eft to their own devices, quantum particles cease to have distinct properties such as location and direction of spin. Instead, they exist solely as an array of probabilities until they interact with something else. . . . It is easy to regard quantum particles as strange. But we need to bear in mind that this is what nature is like. [p. 6-7] [W]ith quantum entanglement, we uncover Einstein's greatest challenge to quantum theory. He was the first to show that the strange quantum effect of entanglement implies that a measurement on one pair of specifically linked quantum particles will be instantly reflected in the other particle, even if it is on the opposite side of the universe. Einstein felt that quantum entanglement proved that quantum theory was irreparably flaws, as this "spooky action at a distance" seemed impossible. [p. 10] ...[I]f quantum physics is correct, then when two particles are produced in a state known as entanglement, observing a property such as the position or momentum of one particle instantly makes the other particle adopt a particular value for the equivalent property. . . . [E]ither quantum quantum theory is incorrect[,] or entanglement makes it necessary to do away with a concept called local reality. [p. 98]
Quantum Theory: A Crash Course, Brian Clegg
The interrelatedness of seemingly isolated organisms has now been discovered even in the lives of trees that form living networks, communicating through electrical impulses akin to animal and human nervous systems, hormones, chemical signals, and scents. . . . That our own individual minds and bodies are intimately linked is fairly simple to grasp. Less obvious but no less true is the fact that those same bodyminds are in many ways shaped, in the first place and throughout our lives, by factors external to us. Although modern medicine's focus on the individual organism and its internal processes isn't wrong as such, it misses something vital: the pivotal influence of the mental, emotional, social, and natural environments in which we live. Our biology itself is interpersonal. [p. 54]
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in A Toxic Culture, Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté
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