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Article
Revisiting Quantum Mechanical Weirdness From a Bio-psychological Perspective
Author(s)
Franz Klaus Jansen
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2018.08.001
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Independent Researcher
ABSTRACT
Quantum
mechanics has some weird aspects, which we simply have to accept, according to
Tegmark. However, approaching this issue from a bio-psychological perspective
allows for an alternative interpretation that avoids this supposedly inherent
weirdness. Physical laws are established based on repeated observations or
measurements, which involve sense organs. Our capacity for memorization and
abstract reflection allows us to draw conclusions on physical reality, which
can thus be represented with mathematical formalism. Therefore, physical laws
are dependent on pure bio-psychological functions. If quantum mechanics is seen
in the bio-psychological context, normal mental functions might explain
phenomena such as the collapse of the wave function. If events of interest
occurred regularly, similar to classical physics, the same pattern of regular
events would be anticipated in the future. Conversely, if events that occurred
in the past were irregular, like in quantum mechanics, they would also evolve
in an irregular manner in the future. Prediction of irregular behavior requires
the ability to imagine multiple possibilities in a kind of mental superposition.
Only when one of the imagined possibilities is realized, the mental
superposition of the future will collapse to one observable behavior occurring
in the present. However, in mental representation, similar to classical
physical formalism, some aspects of reality can be lost. When time and space
coordinates are replaced by calculated time intervals and spatial distances,
time periods and spatial lengths become independent of their initial reference
frames. Consequently, the concepts of past, present, and future become
irrelevant for time intervals. In quantum mechanics, as well as in mental
imagination of potentiality, the notions of the unity of one space for one time
and the time arrow are also eliminated. This analogy suggests that physical formalism
does not correspond to independent physical reality, but rather to mental
functions, which allow establishing a mathematical model of extra-mental
reality. If quantum mechanics is conceived as mental potentiality for modeling
physical reality, the weird aspect of the collapse of superposition disappears
and becomes a simple transition from imagined potentiality in mental
representation to observed reality, which could explain the measurement
problem.
KEYWORDS
quantum mechanics, wave function, superposition, measurement problem, weirdness, observation, reality, potentiality
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