Einstein and Bohr were both wrong - Sharp Homes on the Fuzzy Range

 Sharp Homes on the Fuzzy Range: The Entanglement of Light Information.

Quoted from The Architecture of Being: Informational Platonism and Geometricity also by Brian Cameron Taylor. From Part 5: Reconciling the Quantum: “The strange probabilistic nature of the quantum world in physical reality…” “...is not a problem to be solved but the most direct evidence of the theory” (of informational platonism,) “itself.” “5.1 The Seventh Declaration: The Principle of Quantum Potentiality states that quantum phenomena are the fundamental expression of the informational nature of reality. The wave function of a particle, which describes it as a superposition of all possible states, is a direct mathematical representation of its ‘informational’ potential before instantiation. The act of measurement or interaction is the moment of ‘collapse’ where the system is forced to actualize one of its possibilities."

The philosophy of ‘Informational Platonism’ posits that our universe is an "instantiation" of geometric information– a “data-verse” of all possibilities. All possibilities to be made real will be found to be geometrical by necessity, which we call ‘Geometricity.’ Think of it this way, every idea, concept, possibility or potential thing in the Universe is made up of whatever information it needs to exist. The Universe simply has rules about how that information can be ‘put together’ and those rules point to a requirement for geometrical cohesion. To put it another way, it seems as if reality requires order, in all things just to make anything possible and for some things, like language and light, there is a “fuzzy range of actualization.” 

Imagine the famous double-slit experiment. Light particles show us two bright bars of light in the projection corresponding with the two slits through which the light travels. Yet also, we see light waves cascading and fading in value outward from the two brightest bars of light. Here the two ‘bright’ bars represent the greatest geometric instantiation of light and the fading waves of light represent the dissipating geometricity of potentiality, until none. 

This essay argues that this "fuzzy range" of dissipating potential is not just a philosophical abstraction but a measurable feature of an informational universe. Two seemingly disparate phenomena—the recent, groundbreaking results of the MIT double-slit experiment and the long-observed mystery of quantum fluctuations—serve as two distinct windows into this same fundamental truth, proving that the universe is governed by a deep, geometric order of potentiality.

The famous double-slit experiment has long demonstrated the dual nature of light as both a particle (an actuality) and a wave (a potential). A recent, "idealized" version of this experiment conducted by MIT physicists provided a stunning new insight. They discovered that by adjusting the "fuzziness of the atoms" used as slits—their spatial uncertainty—they could directly control the trade-off between observing the light's particle and wave properties. As they gained more "path information" about the particle, the wave-like interference pattern diminished in direct proportion.

This finding is a direct, empirical visualization of the fuzzy range. The Actuality is the particle, a single, definite state with the "greatest geometricity" of instantiation. The Fuzzy Range is the wave, a superposition of all other geometric potentials with "dissipating potentiality until none," like a headlight fading into the distance.

The MIT experiment proves that the boundary between being and potential is not a sharp line but a gradient—a fuzzy range. To put it another way, light is a wave of potentials actualized into a particle. By sharpening our focus on this boundary, we have found a geometric property of being itself, a spectrum that spans from definite existence to "fuzzy being" to non-existence. The fuzzy range of potentiality being visible in light waves was known, of course, since we began studying light. When we could figure out how to take photos of first light waves and then, much later, light particles we learned that we couldn’t see both simutaneously and we wondered how or why this appeared to be the case. Now we have learned that we can “fine tune” the light to be more or less geometric, sharper and fuzzier until gone. The MIT findings that “what matters is only the fuzziness of the atoms” (their spatial extensiveness, or uncertainty of location), rather than the instantiation or physicality. This reinforces that it is losing information that reduces geometrical complexity thereby dissipating potential and that it is gaining information about a definite path that “forces” instantiation. To put it another way, the MIT experiment directly illustrates the Principle of Dynamic Instantiation, that “everything in our universe is a subset of the total informational structure of our universe.”

While the MIT experiment illuminates the bright center of the fuzzy range—the high-probability potentials close to the point of actuality—the phenomenon of quantum vacuum fluctuations allows us to observe its dark, distant edges. The standard physical model interprets these fluctuations as the temporary, random emergence of energetic particles from the empty vacuum, a consequence of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle.

Informational Platonism argues that this reliance on fundamental, un-caused randomness is philosophically unsatisfying. Within a system where the "Universe does not make mistakes" and "Nature insists on geometry to make things existent", a truly random event is an anomaly. We posit that what physicists measure as "quantum fluctuations" are, in fact, the direct, momentary instantiations of the low-probability, low-coherence potentials that constitute the far edges of the fuzzy range. They are not random in the sense of being acausal; they are probabilistic in the sense that they are governed by the deep geometry of the data-verse, but they represent the statistically unlikely outcomes, the last possible waves of dissipating potentiality. This reframes the phenomenon entirely: The Standard View: Random fluctuations are a brute fact of reality. The Informational Platonism View: The "fuzzy range" of geometric potential are the brute facts of reality, and what we observe as "fluctuations" are rare draws from the tail end of its probability distribution. The cohesive geometry present is simply unknown, perhaps “too fuzzy to see.”

This re-contextualization redefines the quantum vacuum. It is no longer a void that randomly spits out energy. It is the "surface of the data-verse," the roiling sea of informational potential from which all actuality is drawn. The "fluctuations" are the crests of the deepest waves of this potential momentarily breaching the surface of the fuzzy range to be real.

Here we may have found a unifying principle of reality, scalable from the classical to the quantum. The double-slit experiment shows us the bright center of the spectrum, the relationship between a high-probability actuality and its immediate cloud of potential. When we turn on the headlights to drive at night, the dark road is illuminated. Quantum fluctuations show us the faint, dissipating edges of that same spectrum. The headlights, so bright in the foreground, fade dimmer in the distance until non-existent. This reveals a single, unified principle of emergence and actualization that operates at all scales of reality. By re-contextualizing these phenomena, Informational Platonism replaces the problematic concept of pure randomness with a deep, deterministic, and geometric order of potentiality. It argues that every event in our universe, from the brief life of a virtual particle to the grand sweep of cosmic evolution, is an expression of this single, underlying architecture of being.

It may be the case that other facets of existence have a discoverable range of potential, as do light and language. Informational Platonism posits that information is the “what is being arranged geometrically.” This could also mean that there is no fundamental difference between language, light, thought, meaning, being, doing in requiring a geometrical cohesion. This ultimately points to “being geometrical” and “doing geometry” as purpose for all things in reality.