Something on dualistic or bipolar or binary thought and EPR

 

So, this might end up long and tedious , but we can only hope for the best.

Anyway, I have used the notion of " bipolar " thinking mostly in connection with Norbert Wiener as in: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics:_Or_Control_and_Communication_in_the_Animal_and_the_Machine

but more specifically with his book -- The Human Use of Human Beings ---

okay briefly connecting back to the Koan Mu, a dualistic thought is of the form,

It is this and not this.

So in the Koan Mu, the question is , --- is the Buddha Nature in the dog? ---

and hence we get the Master's reply, Mu ...

Now, we can see this in many things, for example Complementarity, ala Bohr:

It is a particle, therefore, it is not a wave, or visa versa.

Also, American politics, ala , I am a Republican, therefore I am not a Democrat. 

Now, of course, bipolar is medical terminology , currently, and so it can be somewhat misunderstood from the perspective of The Human Use of Human Beings, in which Wiener expresses his concern that the misuse of electronic " computing/calculating " equipment would lead to a kind of malady in human thought based  the issues created by working so closely with an essentially binary thought process.  And ,of course, we see this enfolding in our society and even individually today.  Every thing has been broken down so it is a certain thing, but not another thing.  We can see this in terms of issues such as race, nationality, ethnicity, and so on, whereby, a person is a member of a certain race, ie, white American, and therefore he cannot be a black American, which becomes extremely confusing, not just socially, but for individuals as well.  

Now, bringing this whole notion of dualism back to EPR, which, if you don't know what that is probably Google recent Nobel Prizes in Physics,  we have to go back to the culture or climate in the late 1800's and early 1900s, when  " occultism " was frequently in the media or popular novels , for example, think Edgar Allen Poe , etc.

Mostly , the " scientific " community presented a good deal of opposition to the "occult " community, viewing much of it as " superstition ".  Therefore, when Einstein referred to entanglement as "spooky" action at a distance, we see that was the context, I believe, in how in how he was thinking about spooky.

But you can see how this dualistic thinking works in the context of EPR , in that, action is okay, but action at a distance , somehow becomes " spooky " or " occult ".

So how does this all tie back to the " real " world?  Well, as Feynman clearly saw, in developing concepts which we now call "quantum" computing, binary is an integer field, and we simply will not have a clear grasp on how "physical" reality behaves when viewed from that perspective, because this realm contains both " real " and " imaginary " numbers... Obviously, integers are insufficient for that kind of " reality ". 

So, I would like to " sum " it up . When using " imaginary " numbers, you best keep up with the "reals" at the same time ?


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