Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
Doesn't make any sense.
This Rumi poem came to my mind (as cliché as it is) recently when thinking about binaries. The machine I'm writing this on right now uses binaries for operations, but so much of our world falls outside of the realm of two options. One could argue that even the transistors within this machine are also not a simple "OR" gate. The stream of energy that moves between the two end points can be broken down into a Zeno's paradox of motion when an outside electrical force is applied. The distances become ever smaller, but is there ever an absolute resolution when you have an infinite number line?
It is comfortable to believe there are fixed states- but what we know of the universe so far shows us that unchanging possibilities only clarify once we look. That's just my cursory understanding of it at least. I don't think the fields can be used to create straight up magic acts of healing or miracles, but I do believe in the proliferation of entanglement. I like to believe that the bonds we build between elements means something, and can affect the world, even if it is in miniscule, almost undetectable ways. Actions and intentions do matter, whether those be entwinements be electrical paths via our neurons (or possibly even smaller structures), or the more complex acts of vulnerability and experiences we forge with others.
Another good metaphor for this experience could be rainbows, and their indelible bands of colors that have no defined borders. A spectrum of light our retinas can detect when light passes through water droplets, seemingly starting and stopping with whatever range our cone cells within our eyes can handle. We know there are more bands though, well beyond what we can see, and it expands forever into the expanse from the warmth of life-giving combustion 23 minutes away. Connections between atoms that permeate into the infinite, radiating forever.
The beauty of human connections is that they mimic these natural connections. The range of relation holds no endpoints and no finalities as long as consent is granted from the parties, and the electrons can be shared or even exchanged between the individuals. Bonds can be formed in many ways: in passing exchange, in linked chains, or complex folded proteins that twist upon themselves. It takes knowledge and creation to figure out exactly how those attachments work. Sometimes you need to write the communication manual yourself, but often there are existing foundations that will lend you a hand. And sometimes the manual need not be specific, as long as there is agreement amongst all that: Yeah, things are undefined, but we think that's the best way to go about it right now.
And all things change. Those very particles that only settle once observed all have the probabilities to end up somewhere else- on another path, on another destination. Consensus about their connections is not set upon the firmament, to be unchanging forever. It is malleable. The instructions can show you how to unwind those strands; how to rearrange them; or how to let them go. We create our own guides.
But thinking about it too much can draw oneself away from that field. It is okay to accept that your connections are complex, lie in the middle of that meadow, and let your ideas, language, and phrases not make sense.
