Quantum Mechanics and the Cookie Cutter Paradigm

Abstract

What has so far prevented us from decrypting quantum mechanics is the Cookie Cutter Paradigm, according to which the world's synchronic multiplicity derives from surfaces that carve up space in the manner of three-dimensional cookie cutters. This insidious notion is shown to be rooted in our neurophysiological make-up. An effort is made to liberate the physical world from this innate fallacy.

18 pages, LaTeX2e with epsfig (4 figures)

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