"A long-range correlation between observables has the interesting property that the equation of motion which governs the propagation of this effect is precisely the equation of motion of a freely moving particle." (Henry P Stapp, "S-Matrix Interpretation of Quantum Theory", 1970)
"[...] an elementary particle is not an independently existing, unanalyzable entity. It is, in essence a set of relationships that reach outward to other things." (Henry P Stapp, "S-Matrix Interpretation of Quantum Theory", 1970)
"If the attitude of quantum mechanics is correct, in the strong sense that a description of the substructure underlying experience more complete than the one it provides is not possible, then there is no substantive physical world, in the usual sense of this term. The conclusion here is not the weak conclusion that there may not be a substantive physical world but rather that there definitely is not a substantive physical world." (Henry P Stapp, "S-Matrix Interpretation of Quantum Theory", 1970)
"[the physical world, according to quantum mechanics, is] not a structure built out oi independently existing unanalyzable entities, but lather a web of relationships between elements whose meanings arise wholly from their relationships to the whole." (Henry P Stapp, "S-Matrix Interpretation of Quantum Theory", 1970)
"Our beliefs about ourselves in relation to the world around us are the roots of our values, and our values determine not only our immediate actions, but also, over the course of time, the form of our society. Our beliefs are increasingly determined by science." (Henry P Stapp, "Mind, Matter and Quantum Mechanics", 1993)
"[…] according to the new conception, the physically
described world is built not out of bits of matter, as matter was understood in
the nineteenth century, but out of objective tendencies - potentialities - for
certain discrete, whole actual events to occur. Each such event has both a
psychologically described aspect, which is essentially an increment in
knowledge, and also a physically described aspect, which is an action that
abruptly changes the mathematically described set of potentialities to one that
is concordant with the increase in knowledge. This coordination of the aspects
of the theory that are described in physical/mathematical terms with aspects that
are described in psychological terms is what makes the theory practically
useful."
"Briefly stated, the orthodox formulation of quantum theory asserts
that, in order to connect adequately the mathematically described state of a
physical system to human experience, there must be an abrupt intervention in
the otherwise smoothly evolving mathematically described state of that system."
"Science is not only the enterprise of harnessing nature to serve the practical needs of humankind. It is also part of man’s unending search for knowledge about the universe and his place within it." (Henry P Stapp, "Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer", 2007)
"The existing general descriptions of quantum theory emphasize puzzles and paradoxes in a way that tend to make non-physicists leery of using in any significant away the profound changes in our understanding of both man and nature wrought by the quantum revolution. Yet in the final analysis quantum mechanics is more understandable than classical mechanics because it is more deeply in line with our common sense ideas about our role in nature than the ‘automaton’ notion promulgated by classical physics." (Henry P Stapp, "Mindful Universe: Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer", 2007)
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