Quantum Mechanics and the Zen of Beta Volatility

Intuitively, as Kant, for example, explained it, our mind is pre-occupied. It is pre-enlightened, or as Plato explained it, the Socratic method demonstrates we already know what the truth is but don't realize it until we ask the right questions.

A practical example of asking the right question is the problem of falling Wall Street bonuses and declining tax revenue. As these bonuses decline (overproduction), the wealth does not trickle down as much, which leads to the conclusion that we have to support trickle-down economics to promote the general welfare.

To the question, does resisting Wall Street bonuses (trickle-down economics) generally increase the risk of loss, the answer is yes...but we already knew this intuitively, and anyone that thinks otherwise is being counter-intuitive, right? The quantum value "risk," although empirically verified to have increased with the loss of tax revenue, has been conserved and conveyed (constructed) as truth (intuitively known) in the form of the question being asked.

Conserving the identity of the variable to be explained is a tautology--it mirrors the image of the question. When the answer is the intuitive hypothesis (the Zen) to be empirically tested, it is presumed (by trying to prove it rather than disprove it) to be the truth (ignoratio elenchi). Ignorance of disproof (disapproving something by approving something else) is essentially the definition of confirmation bias.

While the question to be asked is whether income is distributed equitably enough to ensure risk is more equitably distributed (less volatile), it does not mirror the practical image (the objective identity) of the conserved, quantum-risk proportion and the value it is presumed to legitimately produce.

The zeitgeist of modern political-economic theory and practice mirrors the image of modern physics. Risk and value are elusive quantum existing both separately and as a simultaneous singularity that commonly binds us (our self-interest) to an objective, existential reality. Risk-value imaginatively exists everywhere and nowhere at the same time until it is objectively realized at a particular point in time and space by its direct, empirical observation.

Technically, understanding how value objectively derives from risk is the Zen of modern physics. We have an intuitive sense about what the good life is and how to get there since, apparently, truth, whether dependant on perception or not, has present value based on the probability of future events.

With the "self" being the only thing we objectively know, risk derives from its preservation. ("I think, therefore I am" is a subjective but objectively confirmable hypothesis, especially when imagining the probable risk to that existence.) Acting in the interest of the self is (objectively and at the same time intuitively) integral to (or the Zen of) the probable risk of loss that we imagine as fully assumed, and with as many objective realities as there are people, the probabilities--separately, combined, and fractally compounded--are virtually limitless. Hence, the value derived from the truth of the fully imagined risk (in one's self-interest) is naturally conserved in historical perspective (in one's self-image). Value is organizationally structured to reduce the probabilities by positioning (or pre-dicting) the risk.

Economics, for example, has become a technical operation of applied quantum mechanics. The same technical graduates building quantum calculators with Q-bits are building quantum risk determinators (the essential bits and bytes of RTV's) for Wall Street to pre-dict (since what they are really doing is dictating) where the risk is to be positioned at any particular time. The result (the risk-value derived) is then determined to be freely ontological (technically based on the laws of nature) with the Zen of feeling the direction of a trend (professional expertise) being what determines the marginal product.

The Zen of quantum mechanics avoids risk (like when animals are spooked before an earthquake) and produces a profit (capital gained and accumulated to avoid risk). Quantum accumulation of capital empirically expresses what we intuitively already know--the reward naturally accumulates with those capable of predicting the position, or timing, of risk.

Humans are economic animals, and just like other animals in nature, we struggle to successfully reproduce. With humans, however, there is a selective deontology that passes on values. Risk-value, as discussed in a previous article, is conserved in historical perspective, and like other animals, humans operate with the capacity to avoid risk, but in our case, risk is avoided to make it unavoidable for others, and the best way to do that is to create the "Zen" of beta volatility.