From a relational perspective, measurement is not an act of discovering pre-existing facts. It is a relational cut — an event in which potential becomes actualised within a constrained field, producing a coherence that appears as a determinate result.
1. The Classical Observer
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Classical physics treats the observer as external, passive, and irrelevant to the system,
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Measurements reveal intrinsic properties of independent entities,
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The object–subject divide is absolute.
2. Quantum Theory and the Observer Problem
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Quantum systems evolve probabilistically and indeterminately until measurement,
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The act of observation appears to “collapse” the wavefunction into a single outcome,
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This gives rise to paradoxes: the cat is both alive and dead, particles exist in superpositions, and observation changes what is observed.
3. Relational Reframing of Measurement
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Measurement is not collapse, but selection — a punctualisation of potential within a relational topology,
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The observer is not external but part of the system, a locus of constraint that shapes what can be actualised,
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The “result” is a moment of mutual coherence — a temporary stabilisation of the field, not an absolute fact.
4. Implications
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Reality is not revealed but construed in acts of measurement,
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There are no absolute facts—only relational actualisations conditioned by specific configurations,
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This dissolves the observer–system dualism and reframes “objectivity” as shared coherence across constrained perspectives.
Closing
Measurement does not collapse a thing into existence—it marks the resolution of potential into a moment of constrained coherence. The observer is not a detached spectator, but an entangled participant in the becoming of reality.
In our next post, we will explore nonlocality and what it reveals about the underlying structure of a relational universe.
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