What is Subatomic Identity?

We all choose an identity or qualities, habits, and traits which we cling to to help us understand ourselves and to help us present an idea of ourselves to which others may cling to “know” us.

You may say something like, “I have always been this way” or “I am X,” yet the truth from a quantum perspective is that your identity is merely the point at which you collapse the infinity of possibilities under your conscious observation and thus select them.

While the ego takes comfort and will defend an identity to death, you are more than you think you are. You are more than your identity.

What is Identity?

Identity is that which makes one thing distinguishable and which gives the thing its distinctness from other things, yet identity is never fixed. The only constant is the energy-consciousness interplay momently formalizing and then dissipating back into possibility.

This means that in a quantum view, identity is a moment-by-moment choice collapsing possibility into actualization. Identity is like choosing a single channel on the radio yet calling this single channel the whole of the radio. While having this single channel is important for your listening endeavor, there are other channels which you may have chosen.

While your ego will defend your identity until death, your identity is only ever an actualized choice of possibility. While having an identity is a part of the human experience, your identity is only a part of a much larger whole.

You are a temporary, focused point in a sea of possibilities

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What is Subatomic Identity?

Subatomic particles are things which are smaller than an atom and include, electrons, neutrons, and protons, and even photons (i.e., a kind of massless particle). Furthermore, subatomic particles have the ability to behave as both waves and as particles. Hence, subatomic particles participate in wave-particle duality. They have no fixed state of identity but rather exist in a probabilisitic state until called upon via observation in which case they take on a recognizable, identified form before dissipating back into a wave.

The identity of an atom is determined by the number of protons in the nucleus of it. Hydrogen, for instance, has one proton in the nucleus, which gives hydrogen an atomic identity of one, yet this proton itself, the thing which distinguishes hydrogen from other chemical elements and allows it to be identified as hydrogen, exists in a state of wave-particle duality. This means that the thing allowing hydrogen to be recognized as hydrogen is probabilistic rather than fixed.

Like the chemical element hydrogen, you are made up of atoms, which means that the very particles allowing you to actualize in physical form themselves participate in wave-particle duality. You are also gifted with consciousness, which means that you have the ability to collapse waves into particles for a moment and thus to hold them in a container of identity.

If you were to ever observe hydrogen, you would be participating in an instance of this.

The idea of subatomic identity posits that your identity (i.e., the conglomerate of traits, habits, and qualities making you you) as a human with consciousness is something that is momently formalized by your conscious choice of habits, traits, and qualities that is repeated enough times to feel familiar and to form an ego yet that exists as possibility within an infinitude of possibility.

While your identity may feel permanent to you and seem to be integral to who you are, there is an infinity of other possibilities that could be actualized and normalized as your identity if chosen with your consciousness to be collapsed from possibility into actualized form.

Nonetheless, if the case is that your identity is a momentary collapse of possibility on repeat, then why does your identity feel so familiar to you as if it is an unchangeable, constant component of who you are at your core?

Consciousness Shapes Reality & Consciousness Shapes Your Identity

Consciousness is a mystery. Although all of us with it know that we have it, understanding the mystery of consciousness is an ongoing endeavor in many fields of study. Likewise is discerning and learning the path to use consciousness in the best, most beneficial way. Nevertheless, one thing that is well known is that observation changes the thing being observed. Put another way, consciousness shapes reality.

Consciousness is your ability to choose through collapsing possibility into actualization, your ability to observe, and your ability to contain. Without consciousness, you would be unable to have an experience. Even the ability to feel sensation is held within consciousness, which is how you are aware of the sensation.

The quantum field reacts to the consciousness with which it interacts.

Identity only takes form with conscious focus on it. This means that the thing you identify with as making you distinguishable from others is only one version of countless potential selves you could be. Your consciousness is like an arm in a toy-grabbing machine. You choose which toy to grab, and the others, although possible selections, are left as only selections. Your identity is the same way. You choose the traits, qualities, and habits comprising it with your consciousness, and this choice comprises the experience you call your life.

In Actualized Form (for now),

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