Quantum computing is often heralded as the frontier where quantum weirdness becomes technological power. Entanglement, superposition, and interference are said to enable forms of computation that vastly outstrip classical machines. But what is actually being computed? What is processed, transformed, or stored?
In a relational ontology, quantum computation is not the manipulation of information, but the modulation of coherence within a structured potential. Entanglement is not a resource passed between qubits, but a configuration of constraint — a systemic interdependence that shapes what transitions are possible.
1. The Standard Narrative
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Qubits exist in superpositions, allowing exponential computational “parallelism”,
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Entanglement links qubits so that operations on one affect the others,
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Quantum gates manipulate these states, culminating in measurement and classical output.
But this picture often reifies the wavefunction — treating it as if it stores, carries, or processes units of information, like a quantum analogue of RAM or logic gates.
2. Relational Reframing of Computation
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A quantum computation is not a set of particles processing data, but a structured sequence of constraint-modulations in a relational field,
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Superposition is not many simultaneous “options”, but a field of unresolved potential awaiting constraint,
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The process is not informational but coherential: a pathway of unfolding interdependency through which a field resolves toward specific outcomes.
3. Entanglement as Constraint, Not Connection
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Entangled qubits are not linked by invisible threads; they are not independently definable at all,
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The system is one coherent configuration, whose possible transitions are structured globally,
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“Operations” on one part of the system don't influence the other through space, but reconfigure the coherence structure as a whole.
4. Implications for Interpretation
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Quantum algorithms do not exploit “parallel worlds” but navigate potential through coordinated constraint,
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Measurement does not collapse a distributed wavefunction into a single value — it punctualises a coherent field into classical constraints,
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What “computes” is not the qubit, but the whole systemic topology as it unfolds under carefully modulated conditions.
Closing
Quantum computation, from a relational perspective, is not the future of information processing, but a deepening of coherence engineering — the art of shaping actualisation through the design of relational constraint.
Entanglement is not magic connectivity or “quantum stuff”; it is the signature of relational indivisibility — a clue that what we call parts are not parts at all.
In our next post, we will explore how this view reshapes the meaning of the quantum state itself.
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