Towards a separable “empirical reality”?

Bernard d’Espagnat

James Woodward

Guolin Wu

Kantian philosophy provided a strong foundation for classical Newtonian mechanics; however, it is difficult to fully account for the features of quantum mechanics. Functionalized and structured a priori knowledge provides only an additional explanation in terms of the hierarchy and role of knowledge; nevertheless, it does not fundamentally alter Kant’s traditional concept, and the transformed a priori knowledge still fails to reveal the state of knowledge in quantum mechanics. Therefore, this chapter is going to construct a new notion of “trans-empirical” that absorbs both the meanings of transcendental and a priori and the meaning of experience to understand quantum mechanics, so that trans-empirical is itself capable of being linked to experience. The trans-empirical refers to something that surpasses experience but also connects it and enables it. This inherent tension between surpassing and connecting experience is what allows objects in quantum mechanics and superstring theory to possess a trans-empirical feature. Different quantum states correspond to distinct quantum realities, and quantum reality is trans-empirical reality, that is, between the possible world and the real world. A single measurement of a quantum system provides only a partial glimpse of its overall reality. It is the whole of the various realities that completely describes the quantum reality. The basic framework of the trans-empirical reality is: Different trans-empirical concepts + perceptual material, perceptual models → different scientific models (rational models) → different scientific realities (trans-empirical realities). In addition, this chapter presents the model of trans-empirical cognition: Pre-experience → pre-understanding → trans-empirical ideas → perceptual knowledge → trans-empirical concepts → rational knowledge → post-experience.

Waldemar Superson

This work introduces a new ontological paradigm based on the Dual Non Separable Structure (UF/UI), which describes reality as composed of two fundamental and inseparable layers: the physical layer (UF) and the informational layer (UI). In light of recent photon entanglement experiments conducted at CERN and other research centers, this model provides a coherent explanation for non local informational correlations that cannot be accounted for within classical physical frameworks. The proposed structure interprets entanglement as empirical evidence for the existence of a Natural Informational Network (NIN) — the informational dimension underlying all physical processes. This text offers a concise introduction to a new paradigm in which information is primary, and reality functions as a unified, living, self organizing system. Author: Waldemar Superson (Super Son of Net Initiative)

J. E. Allen