Another structural element of quantum theory that is particularly helpful here is its radical holism. It is difficult to make too much of this, since such a holism involves, well, everything. Briefly, conventional science assumes a strictly local cause-and-effect model, with this particular thing bumping into that particular thing and so effecting some physical influence or change. Such an “efficient causality,” Atmanspacher and Fuchs point out in Dual-Aspect Monism, has become the dominant metaphor of modern science. Hence the mechanisms and materialisms of the present reigning worldview.
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