The Break Dance Begins: Finding the Path to Quantum Theory and Quantum Methodology

This part of the book comprises a series of independent entries. Here is an excerpt: “It came out casually, the sentence, everything is connected to everything. ... But yet it quickly gained salience, every time I used this sentence in my lectures, in my thoughts. It has brought me to the point where I think of it as a social science version of Albert Einstein and Carl Jung’s attempt to create a theory of everything (cf. Shields et al., 2019), the universe, God, our psychology, and so forth. It is much easier to do, when leaving out the universe and quantum physics, and one thinks merely of everything human, all thoughts, ideas and feelings, all human activities and their outcomes included. The theory of mine, that I have developed over two decades now, has not been named yet, in the past, but described several times at different places, and it has been lectured many times over. It is a post-Luhmannian take on a theory of communication of everything human (cf. Aspalter, 2023b). The new dimension, that is so essential here, is the intra-personal dimension of human communications that I have added, after my deep impression and ideas that I got from Buddhist psychology, which was introduced to me in the lectures of Tich Nhat Hanh in Plum Village in the early 1990s. While I follow Niklas Luhmann (1984, 2012a, b) exactly, I extended the descriptive and explanatory universe of Luhmann’s theory of communication ... Now, thinking of it, I see that there is none left out. All is in. That is, nothing is left out that is in the widest sense communicational, and human action oriented.”