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From Process to ObjectQuantum Packets, Event Structure, and ClassicalEmergencein the PAC–µ8 Framework

Chuanjie Dai

Published Apr 12, 2026• 0 citations
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This paper presents an integrated PAC–µ 8 account of the passage from process-structured reality to the familiar world of classical objects. The central thesis is that objecthood is not primitive ontology. Rather, the world is first process-structured, quanta are then formed as minimal certifiable discrete spectral packets under finite protocols, particle-like mani festations arise as localized certified events, and classical objects emerge as audit-stable coarse-grained bundles of repeated events. Within this architecture, quantization is inter preted not as direct evidence that the world is fundamentally composed of tiny objects, but as protocol-induced discreteness of stable spectral structure. Wave behavior is interpreted as the generative form of a quantum packet, while particle behavior is interpreted as its localized event appearance. Measurement is reformulated as compression plus audit rather than as passive revelation of a pre-existing microscopic object with fully classical deter minate properties. Entanglement is interpreted as non-factorizable certified structure, and the cosmic noise floor is interpreted as residual uncertified spectrum complementary to the emergence of certifiable packets and persistent objecthood. The result is a unified PAC–µ 8 ontology in which the chain from world-process to object is articulated through boundary access, finite recording, compression, certification, persistence, and coarse graining

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10.5281/zenodo.19521156

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