From particle ontology to formal causality: a hylomorphic reinterpretation of quantum entanglement

 

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Συγγραφέας: Lombardi, Sofía
Μορφή: artículo original
Κατάσταση:Versión publicada
Ημερομηνία έκδοσης:2025
Περιγραφή:This article addresses the reinterpretation of quantum entanglement from a neo-Aristotelian hylomorphic ontology, in which the global state of a composite system is conceived as the substantial form that actualizes its parts, and these parts possess determinate existence only within the whole on which they depend. It is assumed that classical atomistic reductionism, insofar as it treats matter as a passive aggregation of independent, localizable particles, cannot account for the non-separability and indivisibility of the quantum state that contemporary physics has documented from the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen thought experiment to the experimental violations of Bell's inequalities. It is therefore argued that entanglement should not be interpreted as a causal interaction at a distance between previously complete entities, but rather as the empirical manifestation of a formal, downward causality that ontologically articulates the parts from the whole. The article draws on the metaphysical program developed by Robert Koons and William Simpson, in which matter is redefined as indeterminate potentiality and form as an irreducible structuring principle, a distinction that makes it possible to separate mere mechanical aggregates from genuinely holistic compound substances.
Χώρα:Portal de Revistas UNA
Ίδρυμα:Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UNA
Γλώσσα:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/23005
Διαθέσιμο Online:https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/praxis/article/view/23005
Λέξη-Κλειδί :hylomorphism
quantum holism
entanglement
downward causation
non-separability
hilemorfismo
holismo cuántico
entrelazamiento
causalidad descendente
no-separabilidad