Fred Alan Wolf

FAW is so plain spoken he is eloquent. Reading Taking The Quantum Leap this week...

In talking about Bohr's Complimentary Principle and the wave-particle duality..."Is the momentum hidden when we measure the atom's position? Is the atom's location hidden when we measure the momentum?...Both of these attributes, momentum and position, are potentially present in nature, but not actually present, until an attempt is made ot measure these attributes. How we choose to compromise will determine...In a sense we never actually lose information. Rather, we shape it. That is, we alter potential reality, making it actual...this potential reality is available for our choosing. The 'experiences' we call reality depend upon how we go about making those choices. Every act we perform is a choice, even if we are unaware that we have made a choice."


"Yet when it comes to seeing ourselves, we are remarkably invisible. We haven't learned to see ourselves as others see us or as we see others. Whenever we observe, our part in that observation is seemingly minimized. Or, depending on our ego state, the opposite happens and our part in the process becomes blown out of proportion. While engaging in the act of observing, 'we' separate from that which we observe. In the very act of observation, the objective, 'real' world appears and the subjective observer vanishes. We know not how to observe ourselves.

"Objectivity takes its toll; the cost is your awareness of your awareness. But objectivity is only an illusion."

"We need to see the complementary side. We need to see our role in all of this. But this is not an easy task. It is difficult to give up our preconditioning. We are actively choosing the world each instant, and during that same instant, we are unaware that we are doing it. But our becoming aware of this simple truth can enable us to see the world's complementary side. "

And he ends in this chapter giving a great definition of singulation - "Your act of observation creates the choices...it is your act of observation that resolves the paradox."