Quantum Measurement Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 593):

It seems to me that something of the nature of a ‘measurement’ is always an essential part of the setting up of a quantum experiment, to ensure that the state is uncontaminated by swarms of these unwanted entanglements. In saying this, I do not mean to imply that the experimenter deliberately sets up a ‘measurement’ to achieve this. It is my own view that Nature herself is continually enacting R-process effects, without any deliberate intentions on the part of an experimenter or any intervention by a ‘conscious observer’.

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, the 'measurement' by a conscious observer is essential because it is only in the observation in a quantum experiment that experience is construed as meaning: as a particle that is an instance of 'entangled' quantum potential. It is only through the intervention of a conscious observer that experience is construed as meaning.