[The Prometheus Shot – EK01 :: Uncertainty, Bohr, Heisenberg ]
This post is part of the Prometheus Shot series.
In this episode, we navigate the nature of uncertainty, not as a modern inconvenience, but as an essential feature of reality, knowledge, identity, and creativity.
What if uncertainty is not just in our minds—but in the world itself?
Why are we fundamentally unsure about our identity, decisions, and future actions?
Why are the most knowledgeable often the most uncertain? What does it mean for science, knowledge, and identity if clarity and truth are complementary?
Throughout the discussion, we will be guided by the Awareness – Intent – Creativeness model as introduced in The Atlas of Worldly Wisdom (https://ahijazi.website/atlas-worldly-wisdom/)
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Some comments from this episode:
From Laplace’s Demon to Enlightenment Hubris
How classical confidence in mechanistic science, once believed nearly omnipotent, collapsed under the weight of two tiny “clouds” Quantum Mechanics and the Limits of Knowledge
Key moments:
the Heisenberg principle, Bohr’s complementarity, and the probabilistic nature of reality.
The Observer Effect & Participatory Reality
How measurement changes what is measured: observers as instruments, reality as co-constructed. Schrodinger’s cat, wave-particle duality, and the philosophical shockwave across physics and social sciences.
Human Implications:
Creativity, Planning & Identity From modern art (Cubism, Pollock, Duchamp) to literature (Kafka, Joyce) and management strategies: Why uncertainty demands courage, plurality, and creative openness.
Practical implications: embrace approximate thinking, accept the plurality of truth, and cultivate creativeness (versus skill-based creativity).
Key Questions to Spark Deeper Thought
How does observing change reality and how does that reshape how we plan and act?
In what ways does uncertainty become a creative catalyst rather than a limit?
This discussion sheds light on why our best plans falter and maps uncertainty from physics to art to innovation. It offers indirect recommendations for thinkers and doers: humility, courage, plurality, creative openness.
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Chapters:
1. Persistent Fundamental Uncertainty
2. Awareness: What is Uncertainty
3. Intent: Observers & Many Futures
4. Creativeness: Uncertainty Shaping the World
5. Reflecting: Uncertainty, Plurality, Emergence
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