Implication for Jerusalem of supraposition versus superposition

Jerusalem as a Symbolic Singularity (Part #3)

Reality and supraposition? In celebrating and promoting the historic decision of the USA to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the Prime Minister of Israel is now widely cited as indicating the need for all to recognize the "reality" of that situation (Netanyahu: Palestinians must face reality over Jerusalem, BBC, 10 December 2017; Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu urges EU to recognize 'reality' of Jerusalem status, Deutsche Welle, December 2017). It is appropriate to recall the vision of David Ben-Gurion, as the first prime minister of Israel:

In Jerusalem, the United Nations will build a shrine of the prophets to serve the federated union of all continents; this will be the seat of the Supreme Court of Mankind, to settle all controversies among the federated continents, as prophesied by Isaiah...(Life Magazine and Look Magazine, 16 January 1962),

By contrast, it is notably the President of the USA who has made "surreality" the new norm of global leadership (Surreal nature of current global governance as experienced, 2016). The question is whether Israel is now somehow conflating and confusing "surreality" and "hyperreality" with the "reality" of "realpolitik", whether deliberately or inadvertently. This confusion seems not to be informed by the insights from quantum "superposition" -- potentially especially relevant to the cognitive challenges of the matter, and in which Israeli physicists have particular expertise.

Intriguingly much is made of the claim from an Israeli-US perspective that the decision "makes peace possible" -- in contrast to the perspective of critics that it is a "threat to peace" (Recognising Jerusalem as Israel's capital 'makes peace possible': Netanyahu, AFP|, 11 December 2015; Macron tells Netanyahu that US recognition of Jerusalem is threat to peace, The Guardian, 10 December 2017). Few care to discuss what "peace" might mean in the emerging global reality and whether it is readily comprehensible in a world of binary thinking in which its nature is considered to be obvious and unworthy of discussion -- despite the challenge it clearly constitutes for the quarrelling theologians of the Abrahamic religions. Exceptions include: John Hagelin and David Lynch (World Peace from the Quantum Level, TM Blog^® Transcendental Meditation^®, 4 August 2010) and Vic Mansfield (The Physics of Peace: quantum nonlocality and emptiness, Chinese Buddhist Encyclopedia). How are trademarked and copyrighted solutions to be reconciled with the transcendent nature of any "peace" -- as highlighted with respect to the latter? As the essence of "non-peace", how is disagreement with any such perspective to be more fruitfully reframed?

The primacy currently accorded to the "supraposition" of any one perspective does of course invite speculation on the possibility of locating the UN HQ deep underground beneath Jerusalem, as argued separately (From Lateral Thinking to Voluminous Thinking: unexplored options for subterranean habitats in dense urban areas, 2007). Any "two-state" solution for Israel-Palestine could invite similar speculation -- in contrast to any proposals for their "juxtaposition". Understood otherwise in these physical terms, the US might seek to construct its own embassy deep underground in Jerusalem for security reasons -- and to encourage other countries to follow suit and to extend a "diplomatic compound" there.

Quantum superposition: Transcending the limitations of binary thinking, how might UN location be understood within a timesharing framework given its fundamental role in the organization of cyberspace and distributed computing? Both intriguing and ironic in that respect is the specific association of Jerusalem with "superposition" as variously understood (Ora Limor, Jerusalem: Its Sanctity and Centrality to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Jewish Quarterly Review, 94, 2004).

Insights into quantum superposition appear to have long been a focus in Jerusalem (Next Decade in Information Technology, Proceedings of the 5th Jerusalem Conference on Information Technology, 1990). The relevance is potentially highlighted by James Hartle (Quantum Cosmology and Baby Universes, Proceedings of 7th Jerusalem Winter School, 1991):

The reason, specifically, that we do not see Mars spread out in quantum superposition of different positions is that we have evolved to use, in perception, a coarse graining in which such superpositions rapidly decohere (p. 101)

Arguably current sociopolitical positions with regard to Jerusalem indeed reflect "coarse graining" and a condition of "decoherence" -- a degradation into competitive dynamics for "supraposition". As illustrated by the mysterious potential of quantum computing, the distinction between superposition (or supraposition) and quantum superposition has yet to be understood in psychosocial terms. as intimated by Alexander Wendt (Quantum Mind and Social Science: unifying physical and social ontology, 2015; video; interview), and discussed separately with respect to religious symbols (Quantum consciousness implications of fundamental symbol patterns, 2017). This failure sustains the tragic prevailing condition usefully described metaphorically as one of quantum decoherence and collapse of the wave function.

Given the physical expertise in Jerusalem, it could be considered profoundly curious that so little attention has been devoted to the reframing offered by such possibilities -- following the concluding question raised earlier by Maurice Yolles and colleagues:

... it might be expected that sociocultural effects likewise have a quantum counterpart...So how do we go about exploring the possible nature of a putative quantum theory in sociocultural effects? To do this we really need to consider some of the properties associated with wave quanta and see if they have any sociocultural counterparts. (M. Yolles, B. R. Frieden and G. Kemp, Toward a formal theory of socioculture: a yin-yang information-based theory of social change, Kybernetes, 37, 7, pp.850-909)

Such insights are seemingly a cognitive prerequisite essential to global civilization. Curiously it is left to speculative "non-philosophy" to explore the potential relevance of "superposition" to the theological implications of Jerusalem (François Laruelle, Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem, 2015). This is a period in which states in the Middle East and elsewhere are increasingly claimed to have achieved a "quantum leap" in their bilateral relations (Taylor Owen and Robert Gorwa, Quantum Leap, Foreign Affairs, 7 September 2016; Brian Whitmore, Europe, Russia, and Quantum Mechanics, Radio Free Europe, 29 May 2017; Reva Goujon, Quantum Geopolitics, Stratfor Worldview, 2017; Radek Trnka and Radmila Lorencová, Quantum Anthropology: man, cultures, and groups in a quantum perspective, 2017).

Somewhat surprisingly, the relevance of some kind of "quantum" frame is made from a Palestinian perspective by Mark LeVine (The Quantum Mechanics of Israeli Totalitarianism):

... I'm talking about a much deeper level of control, at what can only be described as the quantum level of Palestinian daily life. To understand how it feels to live as a Palestinian today you need to think like a particle physicist, not a social scientist. (Al Jazeera, 7 May 2015)

Visualizing the contrast between superposition and quantum superposition with respect to two states -- that on the right indicates possibilities for any future "two-state" solution (the "standing wave" on the left may illustrate the sterility of frozen "peace process" negotiation)
Superposition	Quantum superposition
(illustrated by two waves travelling in opposite directions across the same medium combing linearly; here both waves have the same wavelength and the sum of amplitudes results in a standing wave.	Animation indicative of possibility of an atom being both excited and unexcited at the same time	Animation indicative of possibility of an atom being in two places at the same time

Reproduced from Wikipedia	Animations adapted from Wikipedia from screen shots of a video by J. Bobroff (Quantum superposition of states and decoherence, 2014)