Exploring Quantum Mechanics through Advaita Vedānta and Śūnyavāda: A Clarification on the Interaction between Two Seemingly Unrelated Fields – Physical Science and Philosophy

Quantum mechanics challenges classical determinism through wave-particle duality, entanglement, and the observer's role, ideas that resonate with Advaita Vedanta's non-dualism (Maya) and Buddhism's relational existence (Sunyavada). Yet the conceptual link between these paradigms remains underexplored. This paper proposes Energetic Relational Ontology as a bridge and introduces Quantum-Metaphysical Cohesion, a framework integrating energy, consciousness, and reality as a unified whole.

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Abstract

This paper aims to reveal the point of contact between modern science and ancient Indian philosophy, namely quantum mechanics and Advaita Vedanta and Sunyavada in particular. Modern quantum research discloses the essential characteristics of quantum mechanics that disprove classical determinism and find out the relations between energy, entropy, and observations, wave-particle duality, and entanglement. These ideas have some similarity with Advaita Vedanta’s non-dualism (Maya) and Buddhism’s relational existence (Sunyavada) yet there lacks investigation of how either paradigms interface to develop their conceptual epistemology and ontological nexus. This paper recognises the issue of the bridging of these two perspectives, suggests Energetic Relational Ontology as a solution, and presents a new concept, Quantum-Metaphysical Cohesion, through which energy, consciousness and reality can be seen as one.