ESSAYS
Four pairs, read carefully: the observer effect and mindful attention, the uncertainty principle and Zen's not-knowing, quantum entanglement and dependent origination, decoherence and impermanence. Each essay explains the physics on its own terms, explains the contemplative teaching on its own terms, and then states plainly where the resemblance between them is real — and where it's just a coincidence of vocabulary.
Quantum measurement needs no mind, and mindful attention collapses no wavefunction. What each "observer" actually does, and the narrower resemblance that survives once the popular version is set aside.
A precise mathematical bound on conjugate variables, and a cultivated posture toward all of experience. Why "uncertain" doesn't mean the same thing twice.
Entangled particles and dependently arisen phenomena both trouble the idea of separately existing things — for entirely different reasons, at entirely different scales.
Quantum coherence dissolves in nanoseconds through environmental interaction; Buddhist impermanence is a claim about everything, always. What the shared vocabulary of dissolving hides.