Mallarmé's Poetic Creation and Quantum Physics, Epistemic and Epistemological Similarities

The pioneers of quantum physics have proven that everything is connected to everything in the universe. One of them, Austrian physicist Erwin Schrödinger, has pertinently summarized this reflection in a famous aphorism as follows: “The total number of minds in the universe is one. In fact, consciousness is a singularity phasing within all beings". Such interconnectedness exists not only at the level of subatomic and atomic particles, but also at the macrocosmic and supergalactic level. It can be extended to most disciplines of human knowledge as well. That is why a meticulous study shows that even epistemic areas that seem -aprioristically-incompatible with each other are -factually-cryptically connected. One of the most striking cases of such connectedness is Mallarmé's poetry and quantum physics. Indeed, the major guiding principles inherent in quantum physics are also shared by Mallarmé's poetry: The exceptional power of creative imagination, the indeterministic, probabilistic modus operandi, and quantum non-locality, to mention but a few. In this respect, the goal of our study is to underscore and analyze the kinship between Mallarmé's poetry and quantum physics and decrypt the hermeneutic, heuristic, and epistemological framework that undergirds that kinship. We will use a transdisciplinary approach to knowledge for this specific purpose.