The dynamic emptiness of Buddhist Zen or Indian Sanskrit dhyana, in which self and not-self are reconciled (Kuki calls this interiorization of the other), the annica doctrine of everything being in constant change are notions affined to the quantum subatomic manifold of states in permanent emergence with the collapse of one state or other decohering the system. In the fifth chapter entitled “The Vedantic Vision” of his book, My View of the World, Erwin Schrödinger focuses on the superposition of multiplicity and singularity which characterises the wave function (the realised state resulting from the interference of all the virtual states of a system): “the plurality that we perceive is only an appearance, it is not real. Vedantic philosophy, in which this is a fundamental dogma, has sought to clarify it by a number of analogies, one of the most attractive being the many-faceted crystal which, while showing hundreds of little pictures of what is in reality a single existent object, does not really multiply that object.”. His famous cat experiment (the equal probability of the collapse of eigenstates before measurement) appears to have been suggested to him by Indian Samkhya philosophy:” Assume two human bodies, a and b. Put a in some particular external situation so that some particular image is seen, let us say the view of a garden. At the same time b is placed in a dark room. If a is now put into the dark room and b in the situation in which a was before, there is then no view of the garden: it is completely dark (because a is my body, b someone else’s)”.
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Professor Dr. Habil. Maria-Ana Tupan,
Alba Iulia University, Romania.