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The essence of Poetry

by Massimo Pregnolato

In 2008 Paola Zizzi published an intriguing paper entitled: "Poetry of a Logical Truth". She wrote: "The Truth-Observable is a global truth in the sense that it is conceived as a whole, encoding information from all possible parallel universes.

And it is an inner quantum truth, as it is available only from “inside” a closed quantum system.

Finally, the Truth-Observable is subject to a poetical interpretation, as poetry can be considered under both constructive and platonic aspects, is intuited as a whole, and has the power to evocate all possibilities and expectations, like all the possible alternatives in quantum mechanics.

In other words, both poetry and the inner quantum truth deal with superposed classical truth values, but any possible paradox arising from them is such only in a classical sense."

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