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On NPR, Ruth Kastner said, "If you send two electrons off to the opposite ends of the galaxy, quantum physics tells us that they are still somehow in direct communication, such that the result of a measurement performed on one of them is instantly known to the other." 1 An intrinsic component of Existentialism is the idea that existence must precede essence, meaning one of the critical objectives for individuals is that they are individuals—independently acting, independently responsible, and independently conscious beings—unfettered from constructed labels, roles, definitions or any other preconceived categories. However, entanglement can relate to unseen forces that guise social interaction.

While entanglement applies to atoms it shows these paradoxes in this world, this philosophy, and how that compromises the idea of a free agent, if viewed as a parallel with human connection. We can’t live in a world of complete existentialism-heavily reliant on independent actions/and the individual “essence” if entanglement is a constant state in the universe. Our actions, that according to Existentialist philosophers, ultimately make up our being, are just the bi-products of another’s actions. We can’t ever truly be free agents, and only as a whole do we begin to act as an “individual”.

German-American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist, Herman Marcuse, criticizes existentialism from a Marxist perspective,

"Existentialism thus becomes part of the very ideology which it attacks, and its radicalism is illusory."