Gribbin (1990: 168-9):
"Probability waves" seem to decide where each "particle" in the beam goes, and probability waves interfere just as water waves do. … The rules of wave behaviour are needed to assign probabilities to the appearance of an electron — a particle — or not. We don't see a wave. We cannot say what the electron is "really" doing during its passage through the apparatus.
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, probability waves are construals of experience as system potential, whereas particles are construals of experience as instances of that potential. The interference patterns are construals of experience as the statistical distribution of instance frequencies, in line with the potential probabilities.
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