What Does Quantum Tell Safety?

Any exploration of Quantum Mechanics or the New Physics is an education in what we don’t know. Perhaps start with:

• Ball, P., (2018)  Beyond Weird.  Uni of Chicago Press.  New York
• Carroll, G., (2020) Quantum Physics, For Beginners. (https://images.jumpseller.com/store/digitaluniverse/8495454/attachments/cef26eceb6051a5a4933fedd36b8b652/Quantum_Physics_for_Beginners_Discover_the_Most_Mind.pdf)
• Holzner, S., (2009) Quantum Physics for Dummies.    New York.(https://ia801301.us.archive.org/25/items/QuantumPhysicsForDummiesByStevenHolznerBooks.dezox.com/Quantum%20Physics%20for%20Dummies%20by%20Steven%20Holzner-books.dezox.com_text.pdf)
• Zukav, G., (1979)  The Dancing Wu Li Masters. William Morrow.  New York. (https://www.arvindguptatoys.com/arvindgupta/dancingmasters.pdf)

Or watch any of these:

• https://youtu.be/twY2q1F-ciI?si=WNFsLf1WQWQ0Je8u
• https://youtu.be/QqY8fY0TqaQ?si=18Sgf6ndrUOt_ycu
• https://youtu.be/5hVmeOCJjOU?si=C3-xCuD21xTAmbDm

and you will soon realise that we don’t know much about much.

What we get from traditional safety is the myth of objectivity and certainty, what we get from any exploration of the Quantum world is Radical Uncertainty (https://safetyrisk.net/radical-uncertainty/).

Of course, this confidence in certainty is supported by the global love of and the delusion of zero (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/zero-the-great-safety-delusion/). No physicist would support the delusion of zero.

The projection of perfection is a mental health disorder, good on you Safety, how professional!

What Quantum Mechanics tells us is that the quest for certainty is an illusion. What we know for sure in the Quantum world is, we don’t know much. Indeed, the acceptance of paradox is essential for understanding Quantum.

What we know in the human world for certain, is that fallibility is the foundation of being (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/fallibility-risk-living-uncertainty/). We also know that death is inevitable, it’s just that we don’t talk about it (https://humanposthuman.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/ernest_becker_the_denial_of_deathbookfi-org.pdf).

Once we realise that we live in Radical Uncertainty, we better understand risk and faith. From here, we better approach the nature of risk and the possibility of safety. Then we take the naivety and mythology out of tackling risk and jettison the mythology of objectivity.

There is nothing to fear in uncertainty. There is nothing to fear in not knowing. To bluff about knowing is dangerous, such is the nature of risk.

To speak of risk as if ‘everything is under control’ or simple, is dangerous language (https://safetyrisk.net/hazards-and-controls-risks-and-uncertainty/ ). Nothing is more dangerous in safety than the language of overconfidence. Hubris creates cultural blindness. The same applies by asking an engineer or Safety about culture, resilience or ethics.

Not knowing and uncertainty are both a gift and a mystery. The best way to live in being is to know that all life works in leaps of faith (Kierkegaard).

Fallibility and imperfection are a blessing (https://ati.dae.gov.in/ati12052021_4.pdf). Without fallibility we would not know life, we couldn’t learn nor would we need relational knowing (https://avalonlibrary.net/ebooks/Peter%20Ralston%20-%20The%20Book%20of%20Not%20Knowing%20-%20Exploring%20the%20True%20Nature%20of%20Self,%20Mind,%20and%20Consciousness.pdf).

The projections of Transhumanism are delusional and dangerous.

Once we accept that risk is a wicked problem, we approach it with a realistic method about the state of being. In Radical Uncertainty, we learn to trust our systems less and shift our focus to an ecological methodology (https://files.libcom.org/files/EcologyofEverydayLife.pdf ).

When we develop an Ecology of Mind (https://monoskop.org/images/b/bf/Bateson_Gregory_Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind.pdf) we begin to engage in the mystery of social relationship with greater maturity and wisdom.

In Quantum, Einstein described it as ‘spooky’ (https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/quantum-entanglement-isnt-all-that-spooky-after-all1/). Whereas, Elise Crull describes Quantum as delightful. https://youtu.be/twY2q1F-ciI?si=nUqFjIkY5xK69kNb

Zukav sees in Quantum the remerging entanglement of science, philosophy and Religion. We see the same entanglement in the way Safety speaks about zero.

All of this doubt and entanglement is good for smashing the myth of objectivity. This sends us back to the drawing board of radical uncertainty and pushes us towards the subjectivities of knowing, being and fallibility. Anything that destroys the delusions of perfectionism is a good thing for persons, ethical relationships and safety.

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PhD., MEd., MOH., BEd., BTh., Dip T., Dip Min., Cert IV TAA, MRMIA Rob is the founder of Human Dymensions and has extensive experience, qualifications and expertise across a range of sectors including government, education, corporate, industry and community sectors over 30 years. Rob has worked at all levels of the education and training sector including serving on various post graduate executive, post graduate supervision, post graduate course design and implementation programs.