Why Particle Entanglement Is Not Directly Observed — Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 591):

Let me begin by addressing this second mystery. I shall be returning to the first in due course. A puzzle that must be faced is the fact that entanglements tend to spread. It would seem that eventually every particle in the universe must become entangled with every other. Or are they already all entangled with each other? Why do we not just experience an entangled mess, with no resemblance whatsoever to the (almost) classical world that we actually perceive?

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the entanglement of particles is due to — and evidence of — the fact that they are instances of the same quantum potential.

As previously explained, from this perspective, the reason why entangled quantum states are not directly experienced, is explained by the fact that only instances can be observed; this is the construal of experience as first-order meaning. Potential, on the other hand, can only be theorised; this is the reconstrual of first-order meaning as second-order meaning. It is theory only that provides the means of thinking, not observing, that quantum states are entangled.