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The Experiential Basis of Wave-Particle Duality, Quantum Uncertainty, the Creation and Collapse of the Wave Function, and Quantum Nonlocality
Steven Kaufman
Abstract
In this work a very simple model of physical experiential creation is developed and then used to provide a single,
consistent, and clear solution to the riddles posed by the phenomena that lie at the heart of quantum physics. By
providing a unitary framework for understanding all of these heretofore inexplicable phenomena, this model
demonstrates that physical reality is a reality that has to be created in order to be known. What this model also
demonstrates is that the way in which physical reality is created is through a specific type of relation that takes
place at a level of reality that is more fundamental than the physical level of reality. Understanding that physical
reality has to be created in order to be known first makes it possible to recognize the experiential mechanism that
produces wave-particle duality. Recognizing that experiential mechanism then makes it possible to identify and
define the fundamental limitation that exists in the creation of physical experience that produces quantum
uncertainty. Following that, that same experiential mechanism and limitation is then used to explain both the
creation and collapse of the wave function, as well as quantum nonlocality. Ultimately, this model of physical
experiential creation, by providing a single solution to all of these heretofore insoluble riddles, allows for the
unification of classical and quantum physical experiential reality, by demonstrating that the only difference
between determinate classical physical reality and indeterminate quantum physical reality lies in the relational
conditions under which each of these physical experiential realities is created. What this model also makes clear is
that the probability or randomness that is so much a part of quantum theory is not an actual feature of reality, but
is only an artifact of the process by which quantum physical reality is created, thereby vindicating Einstein for his
never-relinquished view that reality is not fundamentally probabilistic.
Keywords
Wave-particle Duality, Uncertainty, Wave Function, Nonlocality, Experience, Reality, Complementarity, Quantum Physics
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