The Readiness Cut in Quantum Theory: How the Inclination/Ability Distinction Clarifies the Quantum World: 2 Readiness in Action: Quantum Systems as Inclination–Ability Structures

In the first post we uncovered the foundational error:

quantum theory collapses two structurally distinct forms of potential—inclination and ability—into a single formal object (the wavefunction).

Now we show how, once separated, quantum systems become almost embarrassingly coherent.

Not “intuitive” in the classical sense — but structurally lucid.

The world stops contradicting itself.

The paradoxes evaporate.

And we can finally say what a quantum system is in relational terms.

This post is the anatomy lesson:

how inclination and ability are expressed in quantum mechanics, and how their interaction produces actualisation events without paradox.

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1. Endogenous Structure: The Quantum System as Pure Inclination

A quantum system — before any environmental entanglement — is nothing more or less than:

A structured inclination landscape: an internal readiness-to-tend encoded in its own relational architecture.

This is precisely what the wavefunction gives us when considered on its own:

• a configuration space of possible tendencies

• amplitudes encoding internal relational weightings

• interference patterns expressing the structure of those tendencies

• phase relations expressing the system’s orientation within that landscape

None of this is about outcomes.

It is not about capacities.

And it is not about possibilities in the sense of ability.

It is pure inclination:

• how the system leans

• how it coheres internally

• how its own internal relations constrain its next morphism

• how it “wants” to evolve given nothing but itself

This is unitary evolution:

the internal morphism structure evolving by its own endogenous logic.

And crucially:

unitary evolution never produces actualisation.

It cannot.

It’s inclination-only.

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2. Exogenous Structure: The Environment as Ability Constraint

Actual systems never live in isolation.

They are embedded in:

• measurement apparatus

• macroscopic environments

• thermal baths

• decohering fields

• gravitational backgrounds

These do not modify inclination.

They impose ability.

Ability =

The coherence constraints the environment imposes on which morphisms can be actualised.

Where inclination has the form:

• “given my own structure, I tend toward these internal patterns”

ability has the form:

• “given your embedding, only these actualisations are coherent”

Ability is always exogenous:

• apparatus geometry

• pointer states

• decoherence bases

• symmetry-breaking

• interaction Hamiltonians

• macroscopic irreversibility

In fact, we can now say something strong:

Every measurement device is a machine for imposing ability constraints.

It doesn’t “observe” the system.

It shapes what the system can become.

The measurement problem disappears the moment you treat measurement as ability imposition, not “extraction of a value from the wavefunction.”

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3. Entanglement: A Shared Inclination Space, Divergent Abilities

Entangled systems share a joint inclination architecture.

Their tendencies are not separable.

But their abilities — their local environmental constraints — are never identical.

This yields the structural truth behind nonlocality:

• The inclination link is global.

• The ability constraints are local.

• Actualisation is shaped by both.

Nothing “travels faster than light.”

Nothing violates relativity.

The inclination structure already spans the systems.

Ability constraints determine local morphism selection.

Entanglement only looks spooky when you think inclination = ability.

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4. Superposition: A Statement About Inclination, Never Ability

A superposition is simply:

A pattern in the system’s inclination landscape.

It means:

• multiple internal tendencies coexist in a single structured space

• interference is possible

• phases matter

• amplitudes encode internal weighting

It does not mean “the system is simultaneously in multiple states.”

That classical metaphor is a category error.

Superposition is:

• internal

• relational

• structural

• inclination-only

A superposition persists exactly until ability constraints forbid it.

That moment is the relational cut.

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5. Decoherence: Ability Reshaping Without Destroying Inclination

Decoherence is not a partial collapse of the wavefunction.

It is not the system “becoming classical.”

It is not the loss of superposition.

Decoherence is simply:

The environment reshaping the system’s ability space by enforcing coherence conditions.

The inclination remains intact — but it becomes irrelevant to actualisation except along the ability-selected pathways.

This explains why decoherence solves the appearance of classicality without explaining actualisation:

• it restricts ability

• it does not choose which morphism occurs

The choice requires the relational cut: inclination + ability → event.

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6. The Event: When Inclination Meets Ability

An actualised outcome is not a collapse.

It is not a discontinuity in ψ.

It is not the destruction of superposition.

It is:

A morphism selection constrained by both endogenous inclination and exogenous ability.

The relational cut selects:

• one morphism from the inclination structure

• that is coherent with the ability constraints imposed by the environment

This is the quantum event:

not mysterious, not random, not observer-dependent —

but a structurally determined actualisation of readiness.

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7. The Reconstruction: What Quantum Theory Is Really About

Once we apply the readiness distinction, a quantum system is revealed as:

• an inclination space (wavefunction)

• subject to ability constraints (environment, apparatus)

• intersecting in a relational cut (event)

This triad:

• dissolves paradox

• clarifies superposition

• makes measurement intelligible

• demystifies entanglement

• grounds decoherence

• aligns with relativity

• integrates with category theory

• integrates with your relational ontology

It is the architecture quantum physics has been missing.