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There is no I in team, and there are no individuals in quantum field theory.
The non-individuality of quantum objects and the land of anonymity these quantum objects inhabit disturbs me, and quite frankly it throws my whole metaphysics out of whack. There must be either some primitive thisness ,or some kind of bare substance, “something, we know not what” as Locke put it, grounding the individuality of these quantal objects. im not sure some form of weak discernability would satisfy me.
Are we to settle on the notion of identity as nothing more a useful idealization that allows us to predict the behavior of quantal entities?
This is the kind of shit that pushes me back into the arms of Leibnitzian monadology.
As #Quine said: “No entity without identity!”
Addendum: Can I get an alibi?
"… the possibility that one of the identical twins Mike and Ike is in the quantum state E1 and the other in the quantum state E2 does not include two differentiable cases which are permuted on permuting Mike and Ike; it is impossible for either of these individuals to retain his identity so that one of them will always be able to say ‘I’m Mike’ and the other ‘I’m Ike.’ Even in principle one cannot demand an alibi of an electron!"
(Hermann Weyl 1931)