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Quantum and systems theory in world society: Not brothers and sisters but relatives still?
Security Dialogue ( IF 3.279 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-05 , DOI: 10.1177/0967010619897874
Mathias Albert 1 , Felix Maximilian Bathon 1
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This article provides a sympathetic, yet also somewhat critical, engagement with the notion of ‘quantizing’ by exploring substantive overlaps between quantum and systems theory. It is based on the observation that while quantum theory is ‘non-classical’ in its entire world-view, there is a danger that when it comes to the social world it is simply laid on a world-view of that world, which remains at its core ‘classical’. This situation calls for engaging quantum with existing non-classical social theories. Resemblances between quantum and systems theory are obviously given through similarities around the concepts of observation and meaning, whose status and function in both bodies of theory is explored. We then probe the degree to which obvious analogies in fact could be read as overlaps and similarities that could be put to complementary analytical use: in a sense, we argue that systems theory ‘does’ quantum theory, and vice versa. The article concludes with some vistas of this discussion for the field of international relations.

中文翻译:

世界社会中的量子与系统理论:不是兄弟姐妹而是亲戚?

这篇文章通过探索量子理论和系统理论之间的实质性重叠,对“量化”的概念进行了同情,但也有些批判。它基于这样的观察:虽然量子理论在其整个世界观中是“非经典的”,但存在一种危险,即当它涉及到社会世界时,它只是简单地置于那个世界的世界观之上,而这个世界观仍然存在。其核心是“经典”。这种情况需要将量子与现有的非经典社会理论结合起来。量子理论和系统理论之间的相似性显然是通过围绕观察和意义概念的相似性给出的,探索了它们在两个理论体系中的地位和功能。然后,我们探讨了在何种程度上明显的类比实际上可以被解读为重叠和相似,可以用于补充分析:在某种意义上,我们认为系统理论“确实”量子理论,反之亦然。文章最后对国际关系领域的讨论进行了一些展望。
更新日期:2020-03-05
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