Interpreting Quantum Particles as Conceptual Entities

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel interpretation of quantum physics where particles are seen as conceptual entities facilitating communication between matter-based memory structures, explaining quantum phenomena through human concept analogies.

Contribution

It introduces a new conceptual framework linking quantum particles to human-like concepts, offering explanations for interference, entanglement, and non-locality within this paradigm.

Findings

Quantum interference and entanglement are explained via human concept analogies.

A similarity-based metric is proposed as a foundation for quantum structure.

Non-locality arises from the interaction between emergent metric structures and fundamental conceptual structures.

Abstract

We elaborate an interpretation of quantum physics founded on the hypothesis that quantum particles are conceptual entities playing the role of communication vehicles between material entities composed of ordinary matter which function as memory structures for these quantum particles. We show in which way this new interpretation gives rise to a natural explanation for the quantum effects of interference and entanglement by analyzing how interference and entanglement emerge for the case of human concepts. We put forward a scheme to derive a metric based on similarity as a predecessor for the structure of 'space, time, momentum, energy' and 'quantum particles interacting with ordinary matter' underlying standard quantum physics, within the new interpretation, and making use of aspects of traditional quantum axiomatics. More specifically, we analyze how the effect of non-locality arises as a consequence of the confrontation of such an emerging metric type of structure and the remaining presence of the basic conceptual structure on the fundamental level, with the potential of being revealed in specific situations.