Stated in the positive Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of quantum mechanics translates as the Possibility Principle, requiring limitless possibilities to be irreducibly inherent in every situation and circumstance.
Submitted by Steaphen on Fri, 10/09/2010 - 6:06am
While chatting with a very interesting, dynamic entrepreneur and scientist, the subject of fear was discussed.
While initially the idea that death was our greatest fear, I remembered that studies reveal our greatest fear, or at least what is held at the forefront of our cares and concerns, is public speaking.
It seems to me that public speaking is indicative of our fear of others, not of death. Thinking and chatting on it in more depth, we realised that it is fear of what others think that mostly constrains or limits our behaviours.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Mon, 20/12/2010 - 2:43am
Recommended reading: An interesting article that confirms age-old truths about being creative -- focus, and let go (or in this case, "drop out").
Thiel says the huge cost of higher education, and the resulting burden of debt, makes students less willing to take risks. "And we think you're going to have to take a lot of risks to build the next generation of companies."
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Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 02/10/2010 - 6:27am
Another article citing research about the different ways we think: basically, we direct our awareness towards 'context' or 'detail' or in a deeper sense, towards the feminine-wave (collective-possibilities, at-once, connections), and masculine-particle (detail, actuality, logic, serial analysis) dimensions to life.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 04/06/2010 - 5:57pm
A follow up article to previous "Planting possibilities" on the relationship between possibility, doubt, uncertainty and now frustration.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 04/06/2010 - 4:26pm
Quantum mechanics is now revealing the reality of the tangibility of possibilities ... they're becoming visibly "real".
For nearly a century we've had the foundation principle of quantum mechanics - Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle. In broad terms it's a principle that defines the limits to what we can know about quantum "stuff". The "limited knowledge" interpretation is a testimony to a culture that is deeply rooted in a fixed, mechanical world-view of life. The particle is assumed to be "just there" ... a physical thing with definite, and definable qualities.
But recent experiments which show that plants naturally use quantum superpositioning and quantum entanglement reveal how the old mechanical world-view is outdated.
The stuff of which we are made is buzzing with superpositions of possibilities ... and that includes the stuff with which we think.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Thu, 27/05/2010 - 10:26am
An article by Mitch Ditkoff acknowledging the value of doubt, uncertainty, confusion.
"Breakthrough results are not always the result of a revolutionary Eureka moment. Quite the opposite.
They are often the result of doubt, confusion, ambiguity, and experiments that go awry."
Submitted by procreative-admin on Tue, 25/05/2010 - 4:35pm
Big Think interview with David Albert, Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University. (Full transcript of interview available at bigthink.com).
Within the context of this website (focused on productive-creativity) Albert outlines the fundamental issue with quantum mechanics ... that even though it is by far the most successful physical theory in history, it remains alien and 'counter-intuitive' to our everyday experiences. Therein lies the gem within this article ... that creativity cannot be reduced to easy explanations of brain neurophysiology (as our brains are composed of said quantum stuff that defies easy definition and understanding).
