Covid-19. Why the search for a new equilibrium is necessary?

Translation from Italian of an interview by Antonella Vitelli with Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Turin, published on Lentiapois on March 21, 2020.

A tragedy, a disaster, one of the worst “accidents” that could ever happen to us. What is coronavirus? Physicist Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi calls it a “hacker created by nature to show the vulnerability of our system before it completely collapses”. So, are we receiving a warning? To a necessary step that we have to take before everything goes inexorably downwards, like a ball on an inclined plane? Sassoli de Bianchi, turning upside-down the “only problem perspective,” invites us to look at the disease also from the viewpoint of a solution. But what should we solve? And who is the subject of this new turning point? If we can speak of a turning point. How much does the individual have to do with it, how much do I have to do with it? Charles Darwin taught us that surviving reality means reacting, reacting to change. Neither strength nor intelligence is needed, only reactivity to change is needed. We need, now more than ever and on several levels, to restore a new equilibrium with what we have irreversibly changed. From these questions comes this interview with Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Ph.D. in theoretical physics and researcher at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies (CLEA) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), in Belgium. His research mainly focuses on the foundations of physical theories, quantum mechanics, quantum cognition and the study of consciousness.

Massimiliano a few days ago, by chance, this interesting quote of yours appeared to me.

Coronavirus is a hacker created by nature to show the vulnerability of our system before it completely collapses.

Can you explain better your idea? Do you see relationships with natural evolution?

Hi Antonella, this metaphor of mine is to be understood, above all, in the following sense. To correctly interpret a phenomenon, it is often important to adopt more than a single perspective, and sometimes also to be able to turn upside-down the perspective that appears to be the most obvious to everyone. Does the sun revolve around the earth or the earth around the sun? The coronavirus is now understood only…