Any Matter has a particle as well as wave property :
1) A fixed position in space, i.e. we precisely know its position.
2) Two particles can't occupy the same place.
3) When two particles are directed against one another, they collide and a transfer of momentum takes place. (of course, conservation of momentum holds if no external force acts)
Whereas the wave nature allows for the following:
1) No point in space where it is present.( because a wave spans throughout its entire wavelength)
2) Two waves can be present in the same place(superposition).
3) When two waves are directed against each other they just pass through each other.
the wave nature of an indefinite state captures the psychological experience of conflict, ambiguity, confusion, and uncertainty; the particle nature of a definite state captures the psychological experience of conflict resolution, decision, and certainty
The act of answering a question can move people from wave to particle, from uncertainty to certainty
Asking someone a question about the state of her mind could very well change it.For example, if I’m telling a friend about a performance review I have coming up, and I’m not sure how I feel about it, if she asks me “Are you nervous?” that might get me thinking about all the reasons I should be nervous. I might not have been nervous before she asked me, but after the question, my answer might become, “Well, I am now!”
Two ideas are complementary if they are incompatible if you can’t think about them both at the same time. This is similar to the uncertainty principle in quantum physics, which states that if you are certain of a particle’s position in space, you must necessarily be uncertain of its speed, and vice versa.
Rationality itself depends on how you define it
One paradox is the observer effect: we can’t know anything about a quantum particle without performing a measurement of it, but quantum particles are so sensitive that any measurement we might make unavoidably changes the state of the particle, indeed generally destroys it entirely!
In quantum mechanics there is the notion of a ground state, the state a particle is in when it is not interacting with any other particle, i.e., when it is not affected by any context. This is a state of maximum potentiality because it has the possibility of manifesting a multitude of different ways given the different contexts it could interact with.
Entanglement Effect in Physics :
Another paradox is that quantum particles can interact in such a profound way that they lose their individual identity and behave as one. Moreover, the interaction results in a new entity with properties different from either of its constituents. When this happens it is not possible to perform a measurement of one without affecting the other, and vice versa. A whole new kind of mathematics had to be developed to deal with this kind of merging together or entanglement, as it is called
Courtesy : https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/09/how-quantum-cognition-can-explain-humans-irrational-behaviors/405787/
https://www.quora.com/What-does-wave-nature-and-particle-nature-mean
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindbloggling/201204/does-it-make-any-sense-apply-quantum-mechanics-how-people-think
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