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Existence, yes; but why existence ruled, everywhere we look, by the quantum principle? What is the necessity of the quantum? Out of what deeper foundation can we recognize that the quantum supplies absolutely the only conceivable way to construct what we call “reality”?
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Wheeler, J.A. (1986). “Physics as Meaning Circuit”: Three Problems. In: Moore, G.T., Scully, M.O. (eds) Frontiers of Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics. NATO ASI Series, vol 135. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2181-1_2
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