The 'Conventional' View Of Entanglements Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 593):

But how is the matter dealt with in ‘conventional’ quantum mechanics? It seems that ‘in practice’ physicists always assume that these supposed entanglements with the outside world can be ignored. Otherwise neither classical mechanics nor conventional quantum mechanics could ever be trusted. The view seems to be that all the entanglements will somehow ‘average out’ so that they do not need to be considered in practice, in any actual situation. Yet I am unaware of any remotely convincing demonstration that this is likely to be the case. Rather than averaging out, it would appear to be the case that everything just gets less and less like the universe we know, with individual objects not even having approximately defined locations that are not conditional on vastly many other occurrences elsewhere in the universe. I do not see any way out of this conundrum …

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From the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, entanglements are not with the outside world but within quantum potential. The way out of this conundrum is to apply the distinction between potential and instance to Quantum Theory, with interdependent probabilities as the quantification of potential, and to not confuse potential with instance.