A Unifying Framework: Quantum Entanglement as a Foundation for Macro-Scale Socio-Economic Modeling

Christian Aspalter

Vikram Athalye, Emmanuel E. Haven

Since the beginning of the 21st century, a new interdisciplinary research movement has started, which aims at developing quantum math-like (or simply quantum-like) models to provide an explanation for a variety of socio-economic processes and human behaviour. By making use of mainly the probabilistic aspects of quantum theory, this research movement has led to many important results in the areas of decision-making and finance. In this article, we introduce a novel and more exhaustive approach, to analyze the socio-economic processes and activities, than the pure quantum math-like modelling approach, by taking into account the physical foundations of quantum theory. We also provide a plausibility argument for its exhaustiveness in terms of what we can expect from such an approach, when it is applied to, for example, a generic socio-economic decision process.

Milan Branko Vemić

This study examines how David Bohm’s quantum theoretical principles, embodied in wholeness, implicate order, and holomovement provide innovative frameworks for reconceptualizing sustainable development. Current approaches remain constrained by mechanistic paradigms that fragment economic, environmental, and social systems, limiting transformative solutions to recurring global crises. Through systematic conceptual analysis and cross-disciplinary literature review, this research develops consciousness-based models that transcend fragmented thinking and separated domains by applying quantum metaphysical principles in socio-economic systems in an integrated manner. Comparative systems analysis reveals significant parallels between quantum mechanical principles and economic behavior, demonstrating how Bohm’s framework addresses sustainability challenges through the epistemological and ontological transformation of information rather than mere technical optimization. Generalization and illustrative modeling show how implicate order dynamically enables economic coherence, organizational intelligence, and systemic governance. Expressions are derived for unfolding sustainable development operators and kinematic transformations evolving with quantum economics. Two central quantities emerge: active and passive information, exhibiting close analogies with gravitational pull and sustainability potential, bounded by thermodynamic laws and entropy principles. This formulation corresponds to and transcends the quantum law of syllogism, bridging information theory, quantum mechanics, and sustainability metrics. The 2025 coherence–entropy sustainable development scores findings correlatively unify Shannon entropy, Bohmian coherence, and Feynman extremals. A sustainability law of syllogism was suggested, confirming the systemic coherence of the scores. The Appendix validates Bohm’s concepts, facilitating paradigm shifts from mechanistic control to participatory transformation, establishing theoretical foundations for quantum-informed economics, consciousness-based management, and holistic responses to global sustainability challenges that have become increasingly urgent since Bohm’s original discoveries.

Hugo Spring-Ragain

Anirban Chakraborti, Emmanuel Haven, Sudip Patra +1 more

Shamiul Hoque Shan

This paper proposes a complete unified theoretical framework integrating Duality, Uncertainty, Relativity, and Psychological Expectation into a single mathematical, philosophical, and scientific structure of reality. The framework asserts that reality is not an absolute entity but an emergent relational construct arising from observer-dependent interpretations constrained by uncertainty and structured through dual oppositions, while being dynamically shaped by predictive cognitive models. By synthesizing physics (quantum mechanics, relativity), mathematics (incompleteness, probability), neuroscience (predictive processing), psychology (expectation-emotion dynamics), philosophy (existentialism, phenomenology, dialectics), and socio-political theory, this work constructs a comprehensive model of existence as a multi-layered interpretative lattice. The theory establishes that all experiential, physical, and conceptual phenomena emerge from the interaction of these four foundational pillars across multiple scales of reality.