Thursday, 16 November 2017

Quantum Uncertainty Through Systemic Functional Linguistics [7]

Gribbin (1988: 104):
In quantum physics, uncertainty is a definite thing.  It can be measured, very precisely, and is governed by equations and laws, like other physical phenomena.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic theory, uncertainty is both a construal of experience as ideational meaning and an enactment of intersubjective relations as interpersonal meaning.

Ideationally, uncertainty is a Quality of cognitive projection, reconstrued metaphorically as a Thing.  It is agnate with projecting figures such as those worded as I think… .

Interpersonally, uncertainty is a type of modalisation, probability, that assesses the validity of propositions.

The measurement of 'uncertainty', as probability, is a quantification of meaning as potential: potential happenings etc.

Physical phenomena are not "governed" by equations and laws, any more than a landscape is "governed" by a map of that landscape.

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