We propose the Prototime Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which claims that quantum entanglement occurs in a “prototemporal” realm which underlies spacetime. We claim that the Prototime Interpretation (PI) is worthy of further consideration as a superior explanation for perplexing quantum phenomena such as delayed choice, superposition, the wave-particle duality and nonlocality. In Section 11.2 , we introduce the Prototime Interpretation. Section 11.3 identifies its advantages. Section 11.4 discusses several implications of the view, such as its deterministic nature and relation to the simulation hypothesis.
We propose the Prototime Interpretation of quantum mechanics, which claims that quantum entanglement occurs in a “prototemporal” realm which underlies spacetime. We claim that the Prototime Interpretation (PI) is worthy of further consideration as a superior explanation for perplexing quantum phenomena such as delayed choice, superposition, the wave-particle duality and nonlocality. In Section 11.2 , we introduce the Prototime Interpretation. Section 11.3 identifies its advantages. Section 11.4 discusses several implications of the view, such as its deterministic nature and relation to the simulation hypothesis.
An overview of the conceptuality interpretation of quantum mechanics is presented, along with an explanation of how it sheds light on key quantum and relativistic phenomena. In particular, we show how the interpretation clarifies Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, wave function-based and entanglement-based non-locality, interference effects resulting from the superposition principle, delayed choice experiments, quantum measurements, the mechanism of quantization, the reason why entities can establish entanglement bonds and the statistical behaviour of indistinguishable entities. We further argue that the interpretation can also elucidate relativistic effects, focusing on time dilation. Finally, we suggest that it can provide a novel and challenging perspective on evolution. This article is the second in a two-part series devoted to exploring this promising approach to reality. The first part, which serves as a companion to this discussion, outlines the intellectual trajectory leading from the first applications of quantum notions to human cognition to the bold rethinking suggested by the conceptuality interpretation.This article is part of the theme issue 'Quantum theory and topology in models of decision making (Part 1)'.
This paper deals with the problem of the interpretation of quantum mechanics, the nature of physical theory, and the future of physics. First, the question of why there are so many different interpretations of quantum mechanics proposed and accepted by outstanding quantum experts is treated. This requires a discussion of the relation between physics and philosophy and drawing a distinction between a physical formalism and a physical explanation. The Copenhagen interpretation is considered, criticized, and found to be unsatisfactory in some respects. Finally, an interpretation that contains ideas from previous interpretations but which may itself be new, is proposed. Hopefully, this is superior to the previous interpretations. It has, I believe, the advantage of logical clarity. In the process of doing this, I introduce a theory of levels of physical theory, according to which microscopic physical theory, as it develops in successive stages, becomes more and more adaptable to explaining—or at least taking cognizance of—fundamental biological or ultimately psychological phenomena.
This paper proposes superpsychism, a new panpsychist framework that uses quantum entanglement to address the mysteries of consciousness and the emergence of space-time. Building on recent work in quantum gravity and quantum Darwinism, we develop the prototime interpretation (PI), according to which entangled systems in a pure state inhabit an aspatial, quasi-temporal 'prototime' arena, from which both space-time and time's arrow emerge as environmentinduced decoherence redundantly imprints information about preferred pointer states into surrounding degrees of freedom, yielding an effectively classical, temporally ordered world. In parallel, we integrate PI with the general resonance theory of consciousness, arguing that maximal coherence and resonance in prototime underwrite a unified form of experience. This yields 'superpsychism': the claim that the holistically entangled 'megaobject' at the prototemporal level realizes a higher form of consciousness than any spatio-temporal object (including brains), thereby diverging from cosmopsychism. We contend that this prototime-superpsychism package offers a parsimonious, weakly emergent account of how classical physics, temporal order, and macro-consciousness arise from a dispositional, nonspatio-temporal base, while also opening new avenues for interpreting emergence, dissolvence, and the informational efficiency of conscious systems in a potentially simulated or deeply structured universe.
The strange and often counter-intuitive aspects of quantum mechanics such as collapse and entanglement have led to a series of interpretations of the reality expressed by the discipline. The present work purports to the formulation and postulation of a new interpretation of quantum mechanics, one that stems from the principles of chaos theory. Specifically, the superposed state in a quantum system is viewed as an equivalent of a chaotic signal, whose collapse is decided procedurally by the initial conditions and timing-wise by the process of measurement. The basic postulates of quantum mechanics and a glimpse of entanglement is viewed in this perspective. Following this, the proposed chaotic interpretation is compared with other standard interpretations in light of various properties such as determinism, locality, realism, counterfactual definiteness, and hidden variables. The novel perspective of quantum mechanics fundamentals through chaos theory, where the latter has undergone significant progress in terms of studying the system ehaviour using standard tools and evolutionary patterns, offers a plethora of interesting and exciting options to study the hidden realities of nature.
In this article, Schneider and Bailey's prototime interpretation of quantum mechanics is explored in relation to David Bohm's deterministic non-local hidden variables theory, and his later conceptualization of an implicate order, which is a theory of complementarity rather than determinism. Schneider and Bailey argue that quantum entanglement occurs not in space-time but in a fundamental aspatial domain known as prototime, which bridges ordinary time and timeless reality. It is causal but unorthodox in the sense that causality does not occur in space-time. This notion has some connections to Bohm's quantum mechanics (hidden variable) but not with his theory of implicate-explicate orders per se, where the material and mental phenomena are projections of a third, unified source. The article discusses the implications of dual-aspect monism and elaborations of the concept of entanglement which both interpretations (the implicate order and prototime) argue could reconcile inconsistencies between quantum mechanics and relativity theory. While consciousness in both cases emerges from an holistically entangled structure beyond space and time, the latter does not recognize a neutral third as such — a key feature of dual-aspect monism — but there is a super-entangled object (a 'megaobject').