Quanta, Alterity, and Love: Quantum Physics and Philosophy
Quanta, Alterity, and Love: When the Findings of Quantum Physics, Philosophy, and Radical Alterity Collide
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Volume 3: Towards Radical Exteriority as Philosophy
If the first two volumes established the rupture and tracked our descent into the breach, the third marks our final reckoning. The crisis upon us is not merely the collapse of classical certainty, but the potential extinction of a species whose values cannot survive the blinding light of these strange, new worlds. The world-home we left behind was a landscape condemned by the violence of might makes right—a history written by victors and consecrated in the blood of the vanquished. Our true dilemma is no longer the rupture of reality, but the haunting, ethical question: How, then, shall we act?
This volume provides an essential navigation for the survivor of the quantum shift—those seeking to understand how the chasm of chaos, the il y a meaning the stark there-is, demands an astounding asymmetry. Here, the radical exteriority of the Other places demand before volition and responsibility before existence—holding us hostage to an ethics that precedes both our arrival and our relentless retreats.
In Volume 3, we first step back to reflect on where we have been. We examine how excesses we have discovered cannot sustain classicisms’ transactionalism, neutrality, consciousness, and origin. We explore rhymes of ancient philosophers’ histories of origin and chaos, subsequent paths taken and intuitions pointing towards the abyss.
From the mechanics of the abyss to radical alterity, juxtaposing the “spooky” chaos of Einsteinian physics with the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, this study moves through frameworks of Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche, into Twentieth-Century philosophical companions of the rupture towards a territory where responsibility precedes existence.
We revisit ethics and love through practical experiences in love and pain, suffering, guilt, persecution, accusation, substitution, and expiation – our inability to be able. Here we understand how the chasm of quantum chaos is infinitely surpassed in the demands of astounding asymmetry—a navigation of the my-self not as a victor, but as a retreat. What is meant by an asymmetric relationship to the neighbor before ego can ever arise? Discover how the radical exteriority of the Other places demand before volition, holding us hostage preceding our very arrival as ego. How does ethics and love precede our illusions of an isolated self – a thing, challenging our most commonsense assumptions. The radical alterity of the other in the neighbor who faces us is an incommensurably greater abyss than quantum physics.