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Physics is the study of all phenomena produced directly or indirectly by the interactions of time, space and elementary particles, excluding phenomena claimed by Chemistry and Biology.
Plato (428 BC - 348 BC) was a philosopher in ancient Greece. He has had an enormous impact on Western philosophy. As Alfred North Whitehead put it: "the safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato".
Plato thought that common characteristics of distinct objects were due to these characteristics existing in their own right and influencing each and every object which instantiated those characteristics.
Platonism is the philosophical theory that the meanings of general words are real existing, logically prior, atemporal abstract entities and that particular objects have properties in common by virtue of their relationship with these entities, whereas the particular objects do not in any way affect the abstract entities.
A purpose is a result state which is imposed on a quantum system, whether intentionally by a conscious being, or unintentionally.
QO is the short name for quantumoccamism, the hypothesis is that the universe and everything in it arose from a single quantum, solely by means of established quantum mechanical processes.
Quantum mechanics is a branch of physics which regards particles as consisting of quanta, of which one or more properties at any one time does not have a fixed value, but is described by a complex number, its wave function. When particles interact, they form quantum systems, whose wave function is determined at the level of the whole system, and is not the sum of the wave functions of its constituent parts.
A quantum system is a set of quanta for which is isolated from the quanta outside of the set, but does not itself contain a subset is isolated from the rest of the set. 'Isolated', in this definition, means that the wave function of the set does not impact quanta outside of the set.
With the above definition, only the entire universe is really a quantum system. For practical purposes, we can ignore the impact of natural law quanta, and can treat sets of quanta which are almost isolated from other non-natural law quanta as quantum systems.
Quantum teleology is the process in which a quantum system acts as a quantum computer in order to select a state of a quantum system and make this state real, so as to satisfy a particular purpose.
Time is the dimension in which quanta are subject to change. As such, it exists independently of space, applying equally well to quanta that are in space, those that are space, and those, such as natural law, which exist independently of space. The time at which a quantum event occurs is the same for all observers, wherever they are in the universe and whatever their motion and acceleration.
See time.
Resonance is a property of quantum systems, in which a quantum system reverberates according to its symmetries, within the degrees of freedom possessed by those symmetries, in order to produce a persistent state of the quantum system.
See Wikipedia article: Russell's paradox.
The simplicity imperative is the principle that ontic accounts of fundamental phenomena must be as simple as possible, on the grounds that these phenomena developed stepwise from a single quantum.
Each individual one of us is a quantum, from which all that belongs to the self proceeds and to which all that is the self is joined. That quantum is the soul of the individual. It is the individual's purpose. It is currently resident in the individual's body and in control of that part of it that which is known as the brain.