The Double-Slit Experiment Of Quantum Theory Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [16]

Gribbin (1989: 229-30):

So what happens when you do fire one electron at a time through the experiment?  Clearly, when you get one flash on the screen on the other side that doesn't tell you much about how the electron has behaved.  But you can repeat the single–shot experiment time after time, observing all the flashes and noting all the positions on the screen.  When you do this, you find that the flashes slowly build up into the old familiar diffraction pattern.  Each individual electron, passing through the apparatus, has somehow behaved like a wave, interfering with itself and directing its own path to the appropriate bright region of the diffraction pattern.  The only alternative would be that all the electrons going through the apparatus at different times have interfered with each other, or the "memory" of each other, to produce the diffraction pattern.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, each individual electron has not "somehow behaved as a wave" and "interfered with itself".  Instead, the wave is a construal of experience as quantum system potential, and each electron passing through the apparatus is an instance of that potential.  The diffraction pattern that builds up on the detection screen behind the two slits is created by the statistical distribution of impacting particles, with frequencies as instances of quantum system probabilities.

From the perspective of Edelman's Theory of Neuronal Group Selection, memory is the ability to repeat a performance.  To construe quantum potential as quantum ability is to construe modalisation (probability) as modulation (inclination: ability)