The Metaphysical Foundation of Buddhism and Modern Science
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little clouds we attempt to use metaphysical interpretation to distill something<br />
that has substance <strong>and</strong> is enduring. Entirely within the sense <strong>of</strong> the substance<br />
metaphysics <strong>of</strong> Plato, Heisenberg (1901-1976) contends that the mathematical<br />
forms are the idea <strong>of</strong> elementary particles <strong>and</strong> that the object <strong>of</strong> elementary<br />
particles corresponds with this mathematical idea. <strong>The</strong> physicist <strong>and</strong><br />
philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912-2007) called mathematics<br />
'the essence <strong>of</strong> nature'. According to the physicist Schopper, fields <strong>of</strong> force<br />
are the ultimate reality. [24] Some <strong>of</strong> us want to see reality as a mysterious<br />
whole (holism) or dismiss it as a construction without any correspondence to<br />
empirical reality (instrumentalism). All <strong>of</strong> this only because we do not find it<br />
easy to admit that the complex interactions <strong>of</strong> the world in which we live have<br />
their roots in a reality that is in itself complex.<br />
It is impossible to escape from the entanglement <strong>of</strong> this world in quantum<br />
physics <strong>and</strong>, to find an elementary quantum object that is not dependent on<br />
other quantum objects or on parts <strong>of</strong> itself. It is also impossible to dissolve<br />
the double-sided character <strong>of</strong> quantum objects. <strong>The</strong> fundamental reality <strong>of</strong> our<br />
physical world consists <strong>of</strong> clouds <strong>of</strong> interacting quantum objects.
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