<font size="3">Dear Lou and All,</font><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Basarab Nicolescu (1942 - ), friend and continuator of Stéphane Lupasco, deserves the historical credit for showing that the "logic of the included middle" of the latter can be seen as a superposition of physical states in the macroscopic domain. </font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">The "middle" in question is "half-way" between the actualization (presence) and potentialization (absence) of real contradictorial physical phenomena, such as emotions, with the caveat that the absolute ideal limits (0 and 1) of either are not attained.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">In my reformulation of this logic as "Logic in Reality", I have suggested that this concept applies in principle to complex phenomena. such as information, processes, or other wider contexts in Lou's term. An example of one such context would be useful to help focus this part of the debate.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Unfortunately, the principle is not applied in practice, with the result that complex changing phenomena are usually described in the static terms of standard, value-free logic. Partial exceptions can be found in the work of Aerts and Khrennikov, but their real-world applications are again too limited (constructed). </font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">I would greatly value Kate's view as to whether she sees the components of emotion as following something like the laws of the "spaces" that Lou describes here, and to which my logic gives a possible physical interpretation.</font></div><div><font size="3"><br></font></div><div><font size="3">Thank you and best wishes,</font></div><div><font size="3">Joseph <br></font><blockquote style="margin-right: 0px; margin-left:15px;">----Message d'origine----<br>De : loukau@gmail.com<br>Date : 13/05/2024 - 09:53 (E)<br>À : joe.brenner@bluewin.ch<br>Cc : plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com, fis@listas.unizar.es, alexhankey@gmail.com<br>Objet : Re: [Fis] Comments on Questions from Katherine Peil<br><br>Indeed one can formulate “quantum logic” without quantum theory.
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With breathing the subject becomes much more interesting indeed. Particularly if we want to be in control of the lower self feelings. The quantum kind of logic might make sense in rationalizing the gain and spending of energy to perform certain tasks.
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