Stapp, Bohm and the Algebra of Process

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent developments in quantum process theory, connecting Dirac, Feynman, and Schwinger’s transformation theory with weak values, aiming to clarify the underlying stochastic structure of quantum phenomena.

Contribution

It synthesizes ideas on quantum process time development, linking historical transformation theories with modern weak value concepts to deepen understanding of quantum stochasticity.

Findings

Weak values relate to underlying quantum stochastic processes

Transformation theory provides a framework for quantum process evolution

Experimental investigations support the stochastic interpretation

Abstract

Henry Stapp has made many significant contributions in quantum physics and its use in trying to understand the mind-matter relationship. I have been influenced by his use of the notion of {\em process} to bring more clarity to understand quantum phenomena. In this paper I want to summarise the latest ideas on the time development of quantum processes that relate the transformation theory of Dirac, Feynman and Schwinger to the notion of weak values which has triggered experimental investigations of the nature of a deeper underlying stochastic structure of quantum processes.