The concept of entanglement is coined by the theory of
quantum information to designate that special correlation of two or more
quantum entities. Furthermore, it means an exactly defined mathematical
structure grounded on Hilbert spaces and underlying all phenomena of
entanglement studied by quantum mechanics.
That same structure can be utilized for a mathematical model
of metaphor as a special kind correlation between the meanings and senses of
two or more words. The philosophical core of the model can be described so: Metaphor
restricts the meaning of a term by the meaning of another term in a
probabilistic, loose way calling for interpretation.
The introduction of that underlying mathematical structure
allows of establishing unambiguous correspondence between metaphor and
entanglement in an absolutely exact, mathematical way, after which measurement
in quantum mechanics corresponds to interpretation in language: This determines
some interpretations of a given metaphor as more probable, but no one can be
excluded.
The term utilized as metaphor restricts the area of meaning
of its object to a small true subset of it. That set can ground the essential
features, properties or relations of the object of the metaphor pioneering the
scientific or even formal definition of the term serving as the object of the
metaphor at issue. Thus some metaphor founds any scientific notion therefore
“erasing” the grounding metaphor and the rest interpretations except one of
them. The corresponding phenomena in quantum information is the process of
de-coherence, after which the interacted object is cut off from its environment
just as a rigorously defined notion is cut off from its context to designate
one and the same in any context.
The opposed process can be observed both by the theory of
metaphor and that of quantum information: A notion begins to lose its clear
outlines coined in everyday speech and media accumulating new and new
interpretations and uses. A quantum entity analogically starts to lose the
measured values of the quantities as if dissolving in the common and
inseparable whole of the universe. The suggested mathematical structure
describes equally well both processes representing its interpretations.
The outlined approach allows a common philosophical
viewpoint to the physical world, language and some mathematical structures
therefore calling for the universe to be understood as a joint physical,
linguistic and mathematical universum, in which physical motion and metaphor
are one and the same rather than only similar in a sense.
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