Quantum Theory and Conceptuality: Matter, Stories, Semantics and Space-Time

TL;DR

This paper proposes a novel interpretation of quantum theory where particles are conceptual entities, and explores the analogy between physical space-time and human cognitive structures using web-based analysis.

Contribution

It introduces a new conceptual interpretation of quantum particles and draws an analogy between space-time and human cognition through the notion of 'story' and logical connectives.

Findings

Quantum particles as conceptual entities mediating matter

Analogy between space-time and human cognitive structures

Web-based analysis supports the conceptual interpretation

Abstract

We elaborate the new interpretation of quantum theory that we recently proposed, according to which quantum particles are considered conceptual entities mediating between pieces of ordinary matter which are considered to act as memory structures for them. Our aim is to identify what is the equivalent for the human cognitive realm of what physical space-time is for the realm of quantum particles and ordinary matter. For this purpose, we identify the notion of 'story' as the equivalent within the human cognitive realm of what ordinary matter is in the physical quantum realm, and analyze the role played by the logical connectives of disjunction and conjunction with respect to the notion of locality. Similarly to what we have done in earlier investigations on this new quantum interpretation, we use the specific cognitive environment of the World-Wide Web to elucidate the comparisons we make between the human cognitive realm and the physical quantum realm.