Positioning and conceptual delimitation
The Theory of Quantum Monads denotes a theoretical framework developed systematically since
2024,
integrating structural concepts from quantum physics, information theory, and social and cultural theory.
At its core is the modelling of reality as a network of
relationally coupled state entities,
whose coherence emerges through coupling, entanglement, and dynamics.
The term draws on the Monadology of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
as a historical name- and structure-giver, but does not adopt it in a substance-metaphysical sense.
Whereas Leibniz conceived monads as coordinated by a pre-established harmony without real interaction,
monads are here conceived as relational state entities
whose order is not presupposed but understood as an emergent result of dynamic coupling.
In more recent intellectual history, several approaches relate monadological motifs to quantum physics
or process-oriented ontologies. The physicist Shimon Malin, in Nature Loves to
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(German: Dr. Bertlmann’s Socks), interprets quantum states as potential realities and draws
philosophical analogies to monadic figures of thought. In a similar spirit, the process philosophy of
Alfred North Whitehead connects physical events to processual units of becoming.
These works represent important conceptual convergences, but they do not develop an explicit
state-and-dynamics theory for social, cognitive, or artificial interaction systems.
There, the monad concept remains primarily philosophical or interpretive.
The Theory of Quantum Monads is deliberately constructed to require a
formal and structural reading.
Core concepts are defined explicitly, their relations follow clear correspondence rules,
and theoretical extensions are subject to verifiable criteria of applicability and
consistency.
Metaphysical motifs may be addressed within this framework,
but they remain bound to the model and do not become guiding narratives.
The internal order of the theory thus follows from the formal structure of the state, relation,
and dynamics models themselves.
Other works that employ monadological terms in quantum-related contexts pursue different aims.
Quantum Monadology by Teruaki Nakagomi (1992) formulates a
mathematical-ontological world model,
without developing a systematic theory of social, cognitive, or artificial interactions.
Contributions in theoretical computer science, such as Quantum Monad on Relational Structures by
Samson Abramsky and collaborators, use the monad concept as a
categorical tool to describe quantum information processing,
without claiming a comprehensive state-, actor-, or society-related framework.
More recent work in mathematical physics, among others by Hisham Sati and Urs
Schreiber,
develops highly abstract monadological structures within modern quantum theory and category theory.
These approaches are primarily motivated by foundational physics and are not directed at non-physical
interaction systems.
The Theory of Quantum Monads developed by Jürgen Theo Tenckhoff differs fundamentally from
these lines.
It articulates a coherent interdisciplinary theory architecture integrating state modelling, relation
theory,
operational measurement models (IEQ), dynamics (XDM), and normative applicability.
Quantum-mechanical structures are used not metaphorically but structurally,
without transferring physical ontology to non-physical systems.
In this sense, Quantum Monads here denotes neither a loose analogy nor a single formal
technique,
but a closed theoretical framework with clearly defined terminology, a coherent publication line,
and unambiguous authorship.
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