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CONTRADICTORY DATA. “In the field of psychology, cognitive dissonance is the perception of contradictory information. Relevant items of information include a person's actions, feelings, ideas, beliefs, values, and things in the environment. Cognitive dissonance is typically experienced as psychological stress when persons participate in an action that goes against one or more of those things.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance View in LinkedIn

THE LINE. “Bohr insisted that when a measuring apparatus, or parts of it, is treated quantum mechanically, there must then always be a different system which is treated classically.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

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RUSSIAN DOLLS. “Moreover, Bohr stresses that the classical description of objects is strictly speaking valid only as an approximation in the limit where one can ignore the quantum of action. This seems to imply that all objects are in some sense dependent on the quantum of action.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

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INSEPARABILITY. “Bohr believed that the quantum of action (Planck’s constant) is a basic empirical discovery that symbolizes an aspect of wholeness in atomic processes. Such processes cannot be separated from their interaction with the measuring device.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

“DICHOTOMOUS THINKING is an individual's propensity to think in terms of binary opposition, such as “black or white,”“good or bad,” and “all or nothing.” This style of thought may be useful for quick decision-making; thinking dichotomously may lead to wide-ranging personality disorders.” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1468-5884.2012.00515.x View in LinkedIn

THE INSTRUMENT. “Bohr emphasized that a macroscopic measuring apparatus, or at least parts of it, can also be treated quantum mechanically.” https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this article about Bohr’s thinking by a budding physicist who became a philosopher. To be able to tolerate equally true contradictions in the quantum world requires that we learn to think differently; that something can be simultaneously a wave and a particle, or that something can exist in two places at the same time. Even our language inhibits this progression with our penchant for either-or, and synonyms and antonyms. https://lnkd.in/eauD5rnp View in LinkedIn