Penrose (2004: 589):
The key issue is that the particles have been assumed to behave independently of each other after they have left the source, and to give the correct joint quantum probabilities whatever combination of detector settings confronts them. The point is that the particles have to mimic the expectations of quantum mechanics. We have found that these cannot be split into separate expectations for the two particles individually. The only way that the particles can consistently provide the correct quantum-mechanical answers is by being, in some way, ‘connected’ to each other, right up until one or the other of them is actually measured. This mysterious ‘connection’ between them is quantum entanglement. … The expectations of quantum mechanics (rather than of common sense) have been consistently vindicated!
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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the mysterious connection between the two observed particles lies in the fact that both are instances of the same quantum potential, such that the instantiation probabilities ("expectations") of the particles are mutually dependent.
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