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Interesting Quotation

I was struck by this following quotation when looking through once more Marcus du Sautoy's very readable "Music of the Primes". "When we observe an event in the quantum world, it is though we are not seeing the event itself in its natural domain, but a shadow of the event projected into our 'real world' of ordinary numbers." From a Jungian perspective this lends itself to a direct complementary comparison with the nature of unconscious experience from a psychological perspective. In other words we cannot observe what pertains to the unconscious mind directly. Rather when we observe an event in the unconscious world, it is as though we are not seeing the event in its natural (i.e. unconscious domain) but a shadow of the event projected into our 'real world' of conscious experience. The implications here are highly important as it entails that we cannot hope to understand the sub-atomic quantum nature of reality within the current scientifi