Manifesto Summary: Towards an "Armenian Quantum Node Theory" - first signatory and proponent Carlo Coppola
Starting from the carpet as a vision and metaphor of Armenian identity between past and present, it is indeed possible to formalize a coherent theoretical framework. We propose a conceptual architecture built around five principles, each borrowed—in a metaphorical rather than physical-mathematical sense—from the language of quantum mechanics, followed by the values of contemporary Armenian ethics that should serve as its foundation.
1. Cultural Entanglement (connection across distance)
Two nodes that have been historically connected remain “entangled”: a change of state in one is instantly reflected in the other, regardless of the geographical or temporal distance separating them. It is not memory that “travels”; rather, it is a correlation that already exists within the weave.
2. Superposition of Conditions (the Superposition of Armenity)
Armenianness is not a single, defined condition, but exists in a state of superposition: homeland and diaspora, past and future project coexist within the same node until an “act of observation”—a political event, an institutional agreement, a commemorative occasion—causes it to collapse into a manifest form. The political risk lies precisely here: whoever observes—the media, political power, propaganda—decides which state is allowed to collapse, and often chooses the one that is most useful to them rather than the one that is most truthful.
3. Induced Decoherence and Instrumentalization
The “instrumentalization” of crucial episodes in Armenian history can be understood as a form of forced decoherence: an external actor imposes a partial observation—the pain alone, the trauma alone—in order to make the entire wave function of Armenianness collapse into a single, reductive and manageable state. In these terms, re-Armenization means protecting the superposition: keeping all states alive—language, resilience, strategic vision, dignity—so that no one can reduce their meaning for their own convenience.
4. Non-locality of Values
Armenian principles do not require geographical proximity in order to operate. Bari, for example, is not “close” to Armenia in conventional terms, yet the node functions with the same intensity as a direct link between Yerevan and its historic diaspora, because the connection is one of values, not kilometres.
5. Time as a Weave, Not a Sequence
Past, present and future are not moments arranged in a line, but threads of the same weave, interlacing within a single design that is visible in the present. The history of Armenia and tomorrow’s academic cooperation are not “before” and “after”, but simultaneous nodes of the same carpet, observable today.
The Values of Contemporary Armenian Ethics to Be Emphasized
In order for the theory not to remain abstract, I propose grounding it in concrete and recognizable values:
Regenerative Hayrenasirutyun (patriotism) — love of homeland not as nostalgia, but as a project for the future; Armenianness as a future-oriented project, not merely a memory to be defended.
Dignity beyond victimhood — rejecting the reduction of national identity to a narrative of suffering alone, while instead affirming competence, strategic vision and civic contribution.
Historical truth protected from speculation and exploitation — the memory of the Meds Yeghern as an ethical heritage that must be safeguarded, not treated as a bargaining commodity.
Resilience as a method, not rhetoric — a capacity demonstrated over centuries to regenerate culturally while remaining dispersed.
Linguistic and alphabetic transmission — the alphabet of Mesrop Mashtots as a living code of civilization, not a museum artifact.
Spiritual sovereignty independent of state sovereignty — the idea that Armenian identity does not depend exclusively on borders or the strength of the state, but on a network of nodes—diaspora, honorary institutions, academic bridges—capable of sustaining itself.
Cooperation as evidence of shared value — the Bari–Armenia model as empirical evidence that, when values converge, they become concrete action rather than remaining theory.
A Possible Squaring of the Circle
In this reading, the carpet does not merely describe the history of the past: it is the epistemological instrument of the theory itself. Every observed node — an event, an institution, a bilateral relationship — is simultaneously a historical datum and political evidence that Armenity, understood as a quantum network of values, resists any attempt to reduce it to a single dimension.
