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This innovative book has combined the latest drive to integrate the findings and principles of quantum mechanics and quantum technology, especially here quantum computing, into the flamboyant world of social sciences. Starting with Friedrich Nietzsche as a role model, especially his “Human, All-too-Human,” the book explores the world of interpersonal and intrapersonal, intercultural and transhistorical, human communication. This book uses an innovative experiential and abductive research design. The philosophy inspired by Nietzsche meets new inspirations stemming from quantum mechanics and quantum computing in particular. Building on derived guiding principles of (fuzzy) randomness, parallelity, and universality (with communication, words and feelings, as the least common denominator), the book arrives at the formation of a new quantum-inspired theory, called the Theory of Human Entanglement, where entanglements are causal forces for human communication (and hence human actions) that either instigate and propel, or inhibit and stifle human communication (and thus human actions). Human entanglements are diverse; they are complex and accumulative in nature. They operate in a multi-dimensional space, encompassing language usage (including their hidden connotations and culturally constructed truths, such as hidden notions of good and evil, allowed and forbidden), cultural traditions and limitations, governance, institutions, court rulings and practices, particular usages of common sense, local/neighborhood culture and practices, socio-economic and environmental forces and limitations, personal situations and experiences, personal thoughts, feelings, memories and aspirations, and much more. The theory may serve as starting point for greater causality focus in research design and applications across all social sciences and far beyond, especially when dealing with high number or infinite number of potentially causal and causal variables, as well as their aggregate forces (i.e. probability-based vector forces). On top, artificial intelligence applications, quantum information, and quantum finance applications, for example, may contribute to the further development of human entanglement theory, and vice versa.

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Christian Aspalter is the author of over 25 books in Social Policy, Health Policy, and Economics. He is one of the global leading theorists in social policy and a leading comparative Health and Social Policy scholar. He is the author of Ten Worlds of Welfare Capitalism: A Global Data Analysis (2023, Springer) and Super Inequality: Theoretical Essays in Economics and Social Policy (2023, Springer), plus the editor of Covid-19 Pandemic: Problems Arising in Health and Social Policy (2023, Springer), The Routledge International Handbook to Welfare State Systems: Towards Global Social Policy Science (2023), Financing Welfare State Systems in Asia (2021), Ideal Types in Comparative Social Policy (2020), and co-editor of Health Care Systems in Developing Countries in Asia (2017), Development and Social Policy: The Win-Win Strategies of Developmental Social Policy (2017), Active Aging in Asia (2015), Social Work in East Asia (2014), and Health Care Systems in Europe and Asia (2012).

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