XII. Writer as Socratic Guide – As a Citizen Scientist, Not an Expert

Here the writer becomes only a faithful companion, a Socratic guide, if you will.

A guide who will endeavor to stick around when the theoretical engineering gets rough, but who leaves the mental gymnastics required, up to the reader.

My goal is to demonstrate a kind of thinking – a method for encountering quantum science.

Much of my writing has been concerned with deciphering these seeming paradoxical aspects of comprehending quantum phenomena.

Thus my work as a guide is founded upon the fact that I have ventured here previously, and may offer a map and a way through the underbrush.

I cannot lay claim to full comprehension of the quantum phenomena, no one can do that, the reader must accomplish this as an individual.

As a fellow citizen scientist, I am qualified only as a guide, and dedicate my entire career to the work of guiding other seekers through the maze.

Knowing that the remainder of what I may accomplish in one lifetime will be centered around this revolving system of transparency overlays which captures my mind.

In my previous work I built mental models and maps as navigation instruments for this journey, accessible to the reader as back up when the going gets rough.