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Foundations of Science

Entanglement, Symmetry Breaking and Collapse: Correspondences Between Quantum and Self-Organizing Dynamics

Francis Heylighen

Published Mar 20, 2021• 15 citations
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10.1007/s10699-021-09780-7

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