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arXiv Preprint Frames Quantum Formalism as Philosophical Resistance to Totalitarianism

arXiv Preprint Frames Quantum Formalism as Philosophical Resistance to Totalitarianism

A single-author arXiv preprint proposes quantum indeterminacy as an anti-totalitarian epistemology but supplies no new data or testable model. The argument rests on interpretive analogy rather than controlled comparison. Evidence strength is limited to existing literature reinterpretation without methodological advance.

The manuscript opens by mapping the Copenhagen interpretation's rejection of hidden variables onto critiques of centralized control found in Hayek and Popper, claiming that wave-function collapse parallels the forced reduction of pluralistic realities under authoritarian regimes. It draws on Bell's theorem experiments and decoherence studies to assert that irreducible indeterminacy undermines any claim to total predictive knowledge by a state apparatus. No empirical data or formal proofs are presented; the work remains a conceptual synthesis of physics texts and political philosophy. The approach risks conflating mathematical formalism with normative ideology, a common slippage in non-peer-reviewed arXiv philosophy-of-physics submissions. If the claim is to be tested, one would require explicit operational definitions linking measurement outcomes to measurable political variables, something absent here.

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arXiv moderators: No formal moderation action or category change within 90 days; citation count remains below 5 by end of 2025.

Sources (2)

  • [1]
    Primary Source(https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.05459)
  • [2]
    Supporting Source(https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9609019)