White Paper v1.0.0 – Author: Rogério Figurelli @ Trajecta Labs – Date: 2025-05-21
This paper presents and analyzes the Symbolic Quantum Emulation Framework (SQEF)—a computational hypothesis exploring how key behaviors of quantum mechanics can be symbolically emulated using classical systems. It articulates three foundational proposals:
- Symbolic Collapse Machine (SCM): Emulates wavefunction collapse through computational ambiguity and observer-relative epistemic resolution.
- Distributed Quantum Experiment Emulation: Models symbolic ignorance and relational observation in a distributed network of agents simulating iconic quantum experiments.
- Semantic Compression of Schrödinger Systems: Seeks meaningful symbolic approximations for quantum state evolution, emphasizing structural coherence over exhaustive numeric detail.
The paper reframes SQEF not as a physical theory but as a simulation and epistemic modeling framework, aligning with established interpretations in quantum epistemology (e.g., QBism, Spekkens' models, Relational QM), and leveraging techniques from symbolic AI, distributed systems, and approximate quantum simulation. We highlight viable applications, theoretical parallels, implementation pathways, and the conceptual limits of each hypothesis.
© 2025 Rogério Figurelli · Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)