Is there a world after quantum physics?
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https://doi.org/10.23925/1984-3585.2024i2930p180-197Keywords:
Anthropocene, real, uncertainty, complementarity, revolutionAbstract
If the 21st century is the century of the third philosophical death, that of the world, which the clinicians of civilization have been diagnosing in the (post-)horizon of the Anthropocene, it is important to look at what comes next and what we can expect from it. The technological consequences of quantum mechanics are a well-known fact, insofar as the constitution of our common life is irremediably immersed in them. Less recognized, however, is the jolt of the discoveries and paradoxes of quantum mechanics on a new immanence and a new freedom. At stake is a displacement of the problem that communicates, through shock waves, with thresholds of rupture in other fields, such as the reconstruction of the legibility of the Real by Paul Klee and his radical variant of modern art. The conceptual genesis of the Copenhagen interpretation is guided by the principles of uncertainty and complementarity. It involves a double renunciation: of the project of visual intelligibility of the world and of the efficient determinism that defines a universe explainable by chains of causes and effects. To elucidate this, three ideal types that make up the predominant Physics after the Renaissance are discussed: (neo-)Aristotelian metaphysics, Cartesian mechanicism and Newtonian cosmology (culminating in the Theory of Relativity); as well as how these components were displaced in the mechanics of quanta, unveiled by Heisenberg and Bohr. The article concludes with a brief comment on the cosmopolitical resonances of the quantum revolution.
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