Intercorelarea parte–întreg ca expresie a unității sau nonseparabilității din fizica cuantică și metafizica neoplatonică
Part–Whole Intercorrelation as an Expression of Unity or Nonseparability in Quantum Physics and Neoplatonic Metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: The most interesting and fruitful attempt of contemporary scientific epistemology to recover unity is the new paradigm of nonseparability in quantum physics. Starting from this paradigm of part-whole intercorrelation, I have shown that it contains such clear similarities with the Plotinian metaphysics of unity that the nonseparability paradigm of quantum physics can be considered a scientific hypostasis of Plotinus' metaphysics. An example in this sense is Chew's bootstrap theory, based on the mutual self-consistency of things, in which the part and the whole are intercorrelated and intertwined, realising the fact that at the subatomic or quantum level the universe is One. I have thus highlighted that quantum physics validates at the scientific level old metaphysical intuitions about the unity of the world, referring in this sense not only to the metaphysics of Plotinus, but also to the metaphysics of Leibniz.

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