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Are you at home or perhaps on the road? Maybe you are in an airplane? Are you reading online, in a library, or listening to this book as you jog or drive down the street? Regardless of your location, the chances are that other people are not far off. We share this planet and co-create its successes or failures. As philosophers and scientists observe theoretically and empirically, our lives are socially constructed (Gergen 1997). How we behave is experienced by others, which generates collective meaning as we go about living our lives. We all have a hand in shaping this world, one day at a time.
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Heisenberg described an electron as a particle that yields limited information; its speed and position are confined by the tolerance of Max Planck’s quantum, the basic element of matter.
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Sekerka, L.E. (2016). You Are What You Do. In: Ethics is a Daily Deal. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18090-8_2
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