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CHAPTER 4 Inescapable Uncertainty
TWO ESSENTIAL POINTS EMERGE from the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle of quantum physics: You can’t simultaneously know the position and direction of something (for example, in physics, a light particle); and attempt to find out one or the other influences of the very thing you are trying to figure out. Thus, there is a limit to what we can know precisely, and there is no unbiased point of view from which to know anything.
Embracing Uncertainty
In The Self-Aware Universe: How Consciousness Creates the Material World, Amit Goswami, Richard E. Reed, and Maggie Goswami express this point in an interesting manner by saying the following.
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