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V. Bühlmann:
"Introduction + Guest Lecture by Niklas Damiris: Insights from quantum physics and finance for alternate economies-ecologies";
Talk: Convivia, ATTP Seminar Space (invited); 2019-03-12.

How can insights from quantum physics refresh our approach to our profoundly intertwined ecological / economic challenges? I argue that the quantum appears weird only because we interpret it through entrenched cybernetic categories like `information´, `feedback´, `observation´, and `data-base´, which become problematic in a world characterized by indeterminacy, negative probabilities, non-locality and measurement effects. Furthermore, this world is not confined to the small as is often claimed. I propose that we institute a new ecologically attuned economic practice based on finance approached as a quantum phenomenon. Such an endeavor presupposes that those who participate in it `have skin in the game´ and their aim is not to discount the future, but to enable it by facing courageously its indeterminacy and the freedom it affords.