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The Importance of Ambiguity in Quantum Theory
Quantum theory is one of those scientific fields that seems to have spawned a whole lot of fluffy things, fluffy thinking. Richard Feynman famously said if you think you understand quantum mechanics, you probably don't understand quantum mechanics. Deepak Chopra exemplifies a lot of the strands of fluffy thinking with his use of ambiguity in so many of his statements. He says something that could be either interpreted as a literal and really extraordinary claim or as a metaphor.