Tuesday, May 30, 2017

Quantum and Gestalt

Gestalt Theory has shown that the human mind tends to homogenize its object.  Even without its various tests that demonstrate that lacunae in the object get filled in, outside the experimental context, a closer examination of what, at first glance, is normally taken to be a uniformly colored surface reveals, instead, nuanced heterogeneity.  So, it should not be surprising that the fine-tuned instruments used to observe Quantum phenomena are discovering hitherto unsuspected irregularities. After all, the very foundation of Modern Physics, Velocity, from the outset, gets air-brushed from an average quantity to a uniform one.  So, a greater appreciation of Gestaltism might soften some of the resistance to those Quantum discontinuities.

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