TY - JOUR
T1 - On the Conceptuality Interpretation of Quantum and Relativity Theories
AU - Aerts, Diederik
AU - Bianchi, Massimiliano Sassoli de
AU - Sozzo, Sandro
AU - Veloz, Tomas
N1 - 44 pages, 11 figures
PY - 2020/3
Y1 - 2020/3
N2 - How can we explain the strange behavior of quantum and relativistic entities? Why do they behave in ways that defy our intuition about how physical entities should behave, considering our ordinary experience of the world around us? In this article, we address these questions by showing that the comportment of quantum and relativistic entities is not that strange after all, if we only consider what their nature might possibly be: not an objectual one, but a conceptual one. This not in the sense that quantum and relativistic entities would be human concepts, but in the sense that they would share with the latter a same conceptual nature, similarly to how electromagnetic and sound waves, although very different entities, can share a same undulatory nature. When this hypothesis is adopted, i.e., when a conceptuality interpretation about the deep nature of physical entities is taken seriously, many of the interpretational difficulties disappear and our physical world is back making sense, though our view of it becomes radically different from what our classical prejudice made us believe in the first place.
AB - How can we explain the strange behavior of quantum and relativistic entities? Why do they behave in ways that defy our intuition about how physical entities should behave, considering our ordinary experience of the world around us? In this article, we address these questions by showing that the comportment of quantum and relativistic entities is not that strange after all, if we only consider what their nature might possibly be: not an objectual one, but a conceptual one. This not in the sense that quantum and relativistic entities would be human concepts, but in the sense that they would share with the latter a same conceptual nature, similarly to how electromagnetic and sound waves, although very different entities, can share a same undulatory nature. When this hypothesis is adopted, i.e., when a conceptuality interpretation about the deep nature of physical entities is taken seriously, many of the interpretational difficulties disappear and our physical world is back making sense, though our view of it becomes radically different from what our classical prejudice made us believe in the first place.
KW - Conceptuality interpretation
KW - Quantum cognition
KW - Quantum theory
KW - Relativity theory
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85050230236&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s10699-018-9557-z
DO - 10.1007/s10699-018-9557-z
M3 - Article
SN - 1233-1821
VL - 25
SP - 5
EP - 54
JO - Foundations of Science
JF - Foundations of Science
IS - 1
ER -