Chapter 1: Cultural Psychology and its Future: Complementarity in a New Key

Bohr’s imperative for interpretation was ahead of his time. It breaks out of the tradition of constructing ontological accounts—reconciling the particle and wave forms, and the need to accept alternative ways of measurement—through the general Principle of Complementarity. His solution for physics leads to more general questioning the very next steps in our construction of understanding of the World. While our statements are about ontologies, the reasons for our making them are epistemological. We want to know about how we might get to know something we do not know yet. But how do we know what it is—that we do not know yet? Creativity—both in science and in everyday life—begins here.