Sunday 20 August 2017

Quantum Uncertainty Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [1]

Gribbin (1989: xvi):
In quantum physics, nothing tells you where an electron is, or what it is doing, when you are not looking at it.  All you can do, if you make a measurement of some property of an atom and get the answer A, is calculate the probability that the next time you measure the same thing you will get answer B.  Even then there is a definite probability that you will actually get a different answer, C, when you do the experiment!

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, an electron is a construal of experience as meaning.  'When you are not looking', there is no experience to be construed, no act of construal, and no meaning.

Each measurement of a property of an atom is a construal of experience as an instance of meaning, and the statistical distribution of such instances is given by the probabilities in the system potential of which they are instances.

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