Publications: On the Possibility of Quantum Informational Structural Realism

http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1303/1303.6007.pdf

By Terrell Ward Bynum

Abstract:

In The Philosophy of Information, Luciano Floridi presents an ontological theory of Being qua Being, which he calls “Informational Structural Realism”, a theory which applies, he says, to every possible world. He identifies primordial information (“dedomena”) as the foundation of any structure in any possible world. The present essay examines Floridi’s defense of that theory, as well as his refutation of “Digital Ontology” (which some people might confuse with his own). Then, using Floridi’s ontology as a starting point, the present essay adds quantum features to dedomena, yielding an ontological theory for our own universe, Quantum Informational Structural Realism, which provides a metaphysical interpretation of key quantum phenomena, and diminishes the “weirdness” or “spookiness” of quantum mechanics.

Readers may wish to consult works on quantum mind by Chalmers, Penrose, Tegmark and others.