There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness: And Other Thoughts on Physics, Philosophy and the World

by Carlo Rovelli

Quantum mechanics cannot be squared with a naive realism, still less with any kind of idealism. So how should we think of it? Nāgārjuna provides a potential model: we can think of interdependence without autonomous essence. In fact, true interdependence—and this is his key argument—requires that