Index

Contents 

Acknowledgments vii
Foreword ix
     Between Nothingness and Eternity 
     Timothy Morton 

Introduction 
     The Quantum Atmospherics of Consciousness 

Chapter 1: The Swerve 11 
     Agency of the swerve 13 
     Measurement and control 14 
     The Solvay rupture 16 
     Capturing reality 20 
     The unpredictable swerve 27 
     Counterfactual definiteness of art 29 
     Swerve speed 30 
     Quantum biology 35 

Chapter 2: The Diagram 43
     Convergence 45
     Diagram and the new language 51
     The line The flexible diagram 54
     Entanglement and space 59
     Multiverse 60
     Multiverse and parallel worlds 63
     Probability of facts 65
     In aid of the diagram 68