


It unmasks the Western belief in a knowable reality as a compelling illusion produced precisely by our desire to transcend.

Existential rationalism counters with a revolutionary combination of phenomenology ("first-person philosophy") and mainstay Zen. Besides brilliant science, the resulting intellectual vacuum also drew haughty claims of objective knowledge bolstered by expert peer reviews and citations. Its sensational first casualty is the quantum computer, which it exposes as a mere fantasy since its premise is a blatant contradiction: "operation by pure observation."įor centuries, Hume's challenge to reason remained unanswered.
