Quantum Anthropology
Radek Trnka, Radmila Lorencova
November 1, 2016 preprint DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/fr85g (opens in new tab)
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that anthropology should be reconceived through a "quantum anthropology" framework that draws on quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness to study humans, cultures, and societies, thereby redefining anthropological theory and linking it to psychology, sociology, and consciousness studies. |
Abstract
The book offers a fresh look on man, cultures, and societies built on the current advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness. The authors have developed an inspiring theoretical framework transcending the boundaries of particular disciplines in social sciences and the humanities. Quantum anthropology is a perspective, studying man, culture, and humanity while taking into account the quantum nature of our reality. This framework redefines current anthropological theory in a new light, and provides an interdisciplinary overlap reaching to psychology, sociology, and consciousness studies.Contents:1. Introduction: Why Quantum Anthropology?2. Empirical and Nonempirical Reality3. Appearance, Frames, Intra-Acting Agencies, and Observer Effect4. Emergence of Man and Culture5. Fields, Groups, Cultures, and Social Complexity6. Man as Embodiment7. Collective Consciousness and Collective Unconscious in Anthropology8. Life Trajectories of Man, Cultures and Societies9. Death and Final Collapses of Cultures and Societies10. Language, Collapse of Wave Function, and Deconstruction11. Myth and Entanglement12. Ritual, Observer Effect, and Collective Consciousness13. Conclusions and Future Directions
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