Dear readers: I need to bounce this off you. It assumes a certain amount of knowledge on your part, so don’t be concerned if you think it’s simply over your head. That’s the way some things in life are. This is an effort to define terms and how I use them.
quantum: of or related to finitude; implying a precise amount based on the smallest measurable partitioning; as an adjective, indicating an attempt to reduce something to the lowest discernible level, getting down to the fundamentals or the essence of the subject and often associated with paradoxical results
Quantum logic or quantum reasoning is an attempt to reduce bias in thinking. Given the indisputable fact that the human mind cannot operate without an established context, the endeavor makes no pretense of removing all bias. Rather, it is concerned with reducing bias by recognizing various types of reasoning from other contexts and comparing them.
In particular, we as Westerners need to confront the false assumption that our rules and form of logic are the universal standard. By comparing with the wider range of intellectual cultures from other civilizations, we can begin to understand the limits that Westerners unknowingly place on their investigation of things. A particular question is sources of knowledge, and what constitutes valid knowing (epistemology). The West has drawn upon the Greco-Roman Civilization and rejects any source that is not drawn directly from humans: sensory inputs processed through binary analysis. “A thing cannot be both x and non-x at the same time.”
Just as this fails when applied to matter at the level of quantum mechanics, quantum reasoning is not constrained by binary assumptions. A thing can associate simultaneously with conflicting states. Thus, decisions need not pretend to be objective, but highly nuanced and contextual. Truth is assumed rooted outside the reach of human intellect.
Quantum morality — A primary pursuit of reason and logic is defining what is good, right or best in human behavior. Building on quantum reasoning, we recognize a source of input that comes from outside human senses and intellect. Moral reasoning assumes the need for higher faculties that inform the intellect. A thing can be both good and evil at the same time; moral choices need not be regarded as objective and binary. Indeed, it becomes the root assumption that they cannot be so regarded because ultimate moral reality is not confined to the reach of mere intellect.
Moral absolutes are virtually impossible. Questions of human government cannot be reduced to simplistic and objective regulation. For example, rigid penalties in crime and punishment are inherently wrong by quantum moral reasoning. The assumption that government can be structured to be fair and just assumes a false definition of fairness and justice. Modern Western reasoning will invariably fail on such questions because it will not admit to the limitations of human reasoning. Westerners struggle to rig up just systems that crash on the rocks of quantum reality.
Quantum reality is equivalent to ultimate reality. It’s more than reality as one might perceive through human effort; it’s the awareness that there are things we cannot possibly understand. However, we can account for such ultimate reality by building a logic that takes into account the broader human experience with quantum moral reasoning. Once we include in our assumptions about reality that not everything will yield to binary logic and analytical reasoning, we are prepared to investigate the broader factors of ultimate reality.
