Quantum theory and chaos theory suggest that the experience of thrownness should not surprise us. The world is less like a machine and more like patterns of relationships. The patterns are unknowable as to measure something is to change it. The patterns are also unpredictable as tiny differences in initial conditions can lead to large differences in future states. In such an unknowable world; sense-making is all we have (McDaniel, 1997).
Quantum thoery helps us to understand that the present state of the world is at best a probablity distrubution. As the next state is unknowable we must pay attention to the world as it unfolds. So, it is a good thing that we can't do more than sense-making; otherwise our inability to know might frustrate us (McDaniel, 1997). Believing enables actions that leads to more sense and taking action leads to more sense so that sense-making might connect actions to beliefs McDaniel, 1997).
Action is also being in a state of "thrownness". It is a mixture of unknowability, unpredictability and enactment. It is about losing oneself in the world- resorting to detached hindsight. It contradicts the basic assumption that one can always know something by gaining a reflective and detached clarity about it (Dreyfus, 1995). Knowing something best comes instead from direct access to the world through practical involvement. As life is unfolding in a holistic and dynamic way we should act our way into meaning by acting thinkingly (Weick, 1983). True comprehension lies in the direction of detachment.
