Quantum Theory After Brassier: Operational-Shape Penetration Dynamics Difference, Ignition, Preservation, Penetration, Return, and Reconfiguration.
Fujie Naoto
This paper reconstructs quantum theory after Brassier by asking how differences become operationally significant, preserved, propagated, and reconfigured across changing experimental and inferential configurations. Rather than treating quantum theory primarily as a contest among ontological interpretations, the paper begins from the distinction between conceptual classification, physical implementation, physical effect, and justification. It analyzes how measurement arrangements, sensor configurations, boundary conditions, scales, temporal windows, and inferential interfaces determine which quantum differences ignite as non-redundant and which remain operationally invisible or substitutable. Brassier’s Sellarsian naturalism, scientific realism, and emphasis on nonconceptual causal patterning provide an important point of departure, but the paper extends this framework by treating the conditions of observability, discriminability, and scientific articulation themselves as revisable operational variables. Operational-Shape Penetration Dynamics is used to track six recurrent processes: difference, ignition, preservation, penetration, return, and reconfiguration. Penetration refers to the propagation of locally generated quantum differences into later experimental, technological, informational, or inferential configurations, while return identifies feedback from these altered configurations into subsequent scientific practice. The broader claim is that quantum theory should be evaluated not only by ontological interpretation, but by the configuration-dependent operational differences that survive measurement, intervention, technological implementation, and recursive scientific reorganization.
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