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Quantum theory is the most fascinating theory ever conceived by the human imagination. It is based on four principles: complementarity (which requires incorporating the researcher's intention into the experiment); uncertainty (which establishes a limit to the very act of observing); spontaneity (which denies that matter is inert or mechanical, and shows it active and breathing light); and intertwining (which forces us to recognize that everything is related to everything, as Parmenides or Plotinus said). Philosophy enters the theory itself and the principles of freedom and reciprocity scare away the Cartesian ghosts of the machine universe. The intentionality of the researcher sneaks into the experiment and the matter refuses to be objective, claiming its status as a subject. The formulation of quantum theory is due to a group of brilliant physicists, led by Niels Böhr and his two squires: Heisenberg and Pauli. He also had two great enemies, as brilliant as the previous ones, Einstein and Schrödinger, who paradoxically contributed to establishing it. What this elegant theory shows is that every experiment eventually becomes an experience. The universe is the set of all experiences. The experience of the materialist and the idealist, that of the believer and the atheist, that of the bird, the insect, the plant or the mineral, are all real. Not based on their content, but by the very fact of being experiences. The choice of one experience or another is conditional. Freedom cannot be understood without necessity. That is the philosophical revolution that the new physics proposes. A complete challenge to our way of understanding reality.