Main Concepts in Philosophy of Quantum Information

4 Pages Posted: 14 Jul 2020

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Vasil Penchev

Institute of Philosophy and Sociology - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Date Written: June 19, 2020

Abstract

Quantum mechanics involves a generalized form of information, that of quantum information. It is the transfinite generalization of information and re-presentable by transfinite ordinals. The physical world being in the current of time shares the quality of “choice”. Thus quantum information can be seen as the universal substance of the world serving to describe uniformly future, past, and thus the present as the frontier of time. Future is represented as a coherent whole, present as a choice among infinitely many alternatives, and past as a well-ordering obtained as a result of a series of choices. The concept of quantum information describes the frontier of time, that “now”, which transforms future into past. Quantum information generalizes information from finite to infinite series or collections. The concept of quantum information allows of any physical entity to be interpreted as some nonzero quantity of quantum information. The fundament of quantum information is the concept of ‘quantum bit’, “qubit”. A qubit is a choice among an infinite set of alternatives. It generalizes the unit of classical information, a bit, which refer to a finite set of alternatives. The qubit is also isomorphic to a ball in Euclidean space, in which two points are chosen.

Keywords: quantum information, free will, choice, qubit, quantity of quantum information, transfinite generalization of information

Suggested Citation

Penchev, Vasil, Main Concepts in Philosophy of Quantum Information (June 19, 2020). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3630828 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3630828

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