Emergence and Dynamics: A Quantum Ontology of A-causality

Abstract

The previous chapter has opened a quest for a new paradigm, or even possibly for a new ontology. If we would like to understand the world differently, we might need a new set of basic assumptions, beliefs that we hold about how nature itself functions. It is generally accepted that the world functions according to the laws of Nature given to us by Newton. We would operate in a fixed time-space concept. Events are causally related, and if we know what happens today, we know with certitude what happened yesterday and what is happening tomorrow. Clearly, however, our relationship with the past is a much easier one than our relationship with the future. We know exactly what happened yesterday; we have no clue what is going to happen tomorrow. In reality, in practice, a Newtonian world does not seem to hold. Nevertheless, our managerial thinking is still heavily based on causal thinking. We claim that we can only manage causalities. But in reality again, what a manager, a leader, deals with is interconnectedness of people, and that seems to follow its own pattern of logic.