All things exist in a quantum state in perpetuity, but when objects interact with the environment, they begin to appear classical, and the quantum superposition becomes inaccessible. During the double slit experiment, interacting with photons causes decoherence and wavefunction collapse, where the quantum state becomes unreachable to us.
In our experience, this wavefunction collapse or superposition collapse, creates what we might infer to be order.
This same concept can be applied to human nature. I do believe that human consciousness could exist in a sort of quantum superposition state. The teachings in quantum behavior are often closely related to philosophical musings that spiritual masters have recounted for a very long time.
What have our spiritual teachers and frameworks told us? Observe and do not interfere. Do not internalize; simply witness, and do not take on the baggage of the world as our own or carry things which are not ours. These universal principles are reflected in Buddhism, Hermeticism (The Kybalion’s Law of Correspondence), Shamanism, and in modern thinkers such as David Bohm and Eckhart Tolle. They’re also at the heart of detachment and logical reasoning.
And what happens in these frameworks even in psychologically mystical interpretations, such as Jung’s, is that we co-create a subtle space. A space where we can hold a moment for another person or object and allow their waveform of potential to resolve into a definite state. This is the same space we hold for others when we witness their growth. What we are really witnessing is their decoherence: their emergence from an infinite range of possibilities into a defined, classical form.
This same concept applies to quantum computing, where qubits exist in a superposition of 0 and 1. We have no knowledge of their definite state until they are measured. Yet, much like our own growth cycles, it is possible to have encoded potential within qubits that can later be revealed through measurement.
What is most fascinating about quantum computing is not just its ability to perform calculations exponentially faster. It is the fact that we can encode potential into qubits and have it revealed almost instantaneously and organically, depending on how and when the measurement is made. This occurs much like our true potential is revealed during times of measurement in our lives.
And it is during those times of measuring and weighing, that we truly come into being.
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