A meaningful choice.
The Quantum Family was discovered at TwoFish, a creative laboratory for children in Sofia, Bulgaria. TwoFish's initial mission was to explore language acquisition through meaningful experiences in an environment enriched with curiosities and where every action and inaction was deemed significant.
The Quantum Family
Uniting our Ancient Past and Probabilistic Future.
Children are not blank slates.
As we explored the acquisition process, we discovered a predictable pattern of behaviour that can be observed when children are allowed to explore freely and without manipulation. Contrary to contemporary belief and the mandatory standardisation of all children, they certainly do not arrive as empty vessels.
We have an Operating System.
Many children instinctively take command, explore and navigate their territory without instruction. They stop, feel for a while, and prioritise investments. Then, they assert their needs, negotiate resources, and make agreements. With these resources, they bring their ideas to life and reflect on and learn from their outcomes.
The 3rd parent.
Archetypal behaviours, like muscles, only strengthen through exercise. They can be awakened and empowered when stimulated by a rich, autonomous, and thoughtfully designed environment that sparks curiosity and sets in motion a lifelong pursuit of beauty, clarity, joy, mastery, and meaning. Conversely, they tend to atrophy when these behaviours are not welcomed and exercised.
Remember yourself.
Each archetype is familiar because they already exist within you as a Quantum Family. When liberated and encouraged to grow, this family helps transform your child into an independent, decisive, persistent, resourceful, skilled, and grounded adult.
But knowing this, will you acknowledge, welcome, and support your child's Quantum Family?
Will you make the unconscious conscious?
Will you permit your child to live meaningfully?
A regrettable substitution.
However, standardised schools have yet to recognise, welcome, and nurture your child’s Quantum Family. By overlooking its significance, these mandatory programs risk disconnecting responsible children from the spirit and wisdom of their ancestors, unwittingly substituting them with an inferior family of roles and an obsolete operating system.
An imminent paradigm shift.
Nevertheless, they will need their Quantum Family to thrive as adults in a technological future. Soon, they will have to adopt these roles to practice and set themselves apart from AI by formulating meaningful questions and tackling complex, multidimensional problems that AI cannot imagine. Value creation will become a fundamental aspect of life and literacy.
Respect your ancestors.
The Quantum Family philosophy integrates our ancient past and probabilistic future. It is the ground beneath your feet, a developmental territory to explore, experience, and rule. It is your sovereign property and our shared archetypal heritage, an infinite source of meaning worthy of attention and respect.
Creation is our base state.
This pattern, these behaviours, roles and valuable abilities are not unique or recent. They stem from a process shaped by our ancestors' responses to challenges and opportunities they encountered over hundreds of thousands of years. Through these invaluable lessons and as archetypes, the spirit of our tool-building predecessors lives on.
