Thursday, May 2, 2019

Philosophy Wire: Communications. One. Parmenides. Ghosts.

Communication is a two-way street. Thanks to quantum mechanics, that adage applies even if you’ve got only one particle to transmit messages with. Using a single photon, two people can simultaneously send information to one another, scientists report in a pair of papers. The feat relies on superposition, a phenomenon of quantum mechanics through which particles can effectively occupy two places simultaneously. [1] Everything is part of One. We may experience it in diverse ways. We may see 0, 1 or infinite. We may count numbers or even see numbers which are not there (π). And yet, only One exists. Soon we will realize that communication, like mathematics, is just a set of tautologies cancelling each other to the point of nothingness. There is nothing to discover. There is nothing to know. There is nothing to experience. At the end, there is nothing to communicate. Start speaking. And you will create ghosts that will haunt you forever…

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