The Phenomenological Conception of Quantum Theory and the Polyphony of Modern Fiction

Abstract

The problems under discussion refer to the following topic — the phenomenological way of thinking in various fields of human activity. The phenomenological conception of quantum theory, resulting from the analogy between Husserl’s phenomenology and Bohr’s interpretation of quantum theory is used as a basic conception here. We certainly realize that the hypotheses and results of our investigation go beyond Bohr’s interpretation, but at the same time, they are a logical extension of Bohr’s position to the field of existential phenomenology. By extending Bohr’s interpretation through the complementarity principle, we link “orthodox” quantum theory with the stream of consciousness and polyphony in contemporary fiction. The basis of such an analogy is the fact that both fields (that of the atomic world and that of artistic reality) are committed to the same phenomenological method of object construction.