How Quantum is Life?

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Abstract

We live in a period of epistemological crisis that echoes the one that gave rise to modern science. This essay looks at the early modern crisis of knowledge, draws a parallel between it and the present, and explores how we might use the lessons of the past to create a more democratic science in the future that fulfills its promise of unveiling a comprehensible world that is universally understood.

Rick Searle

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