The State Reduction To A Classical Configuration Viewed Through Systemic Functional Linguistics

Penrose (2004: 904):

This raises the issue of the classical limit of a quantum system for large quantum numbers, and the related matter of the state reduction R to such a classical configuration. We have seen that the R issue cannot really be fully resolved within the framework of present-day quantum theory.

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To be clear, 'the state reduction R to a classical configuration' is the collapse of the wave function, and from the perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistic Theory, this can be fully resolved within the framework of present-day quantum theory by understanding this as the instantiation of potential when an observation is made. The wave function constitutes the range of potential construals of experience as meaning, and its "collapse" is one instance of this potential when experience is actually construed as meaning in an observation.