On the Epistemological Construction of the Quantum Information Realm: 论【量子信息场域】的认识论构建

Abstract

Contemporary frontier science stands at a profound paradigm rupture. Quantum physics, life sciences, artificial intelligence, and consciousness studies increasingly reveal that the bottom layer of reality is not governed by isolated entities, mechanical collisions, and linear causation. Yet mainstream interpretive frameworks remain deeply constrained by the dual grip of Greek substantialism (Substance Ontology) and modern mechanism (Mechanism)—habits of understanding all things as decomposable, exhaustible, and reducible "material parts." This paradigm mismatch causes science to repeatedly encounter "computational catastrophe" and "epistemological bankruptcy" when confronting protein folding, photosynthetic quantum coherence, quantum entanglement non-locality, and the hard problem of consciousness. This paper systematically proposes and constructs the "Quantum Information Realm/Field" paradigm (QIRF or QIRT). This paradigm rests on three cardinal propositions: First, the primacy of information—information is not a subsidiary label attached to matter, but rather the prior mechanism of structure generation. Second, the priority of fields—the state, function, and generative orientation of local entities must be understood within the constraint of integral fields. Third, the holistic integrity of relational fields—no local entity in creation exists or generates in isolated self-sufficiency; rather, it always operates within an integral field constituted by information encoding, energy flows, boundary conditions, and interactive networks. Relations are not external, optional connections subsequent to entities; they participate intrinsically in determining the state and generative direction of entities within the integral field. This paper takes AlphaFold's protein-folding prediction as its core technical case study, demonstrating that its success derives not from computational brute force, but from an epistemological leap from mechanical pathway simulation to information pattern recognition. AlphaFold's three-step logic—codebook (encoding table), probabilistic alignment (prediction), and global evolutionary interference (MSA)—precisely vindicates QIRT's foundational insight at the technical level: biological structure emerges not from blind combinatorial exhaustion, but through self-organization according to intrinsic information mechanisms within an implicit relational field. Subsequently, the paper examines photosynthetic quantum coherence, quantum entanglement non-locality, and the hard problem of consciousness, arguing that QIRT can serve as a new paradigm that is de-Hellenized, de-mechanized, and reorients toward relations, information, and dynamic integral wholes. It thereby establishes deeper dialogical channels between science, philosophy, and theology, ultimately liberating human reason from the exhaustion of low-dimensional mechanism, returning it to the Creator's dynamic eternity, synergistic concurrency, and sacred rhythm and rest. Keywords: Quantum Information Realm; structural mechanism; mechanistic structure; holistic integrity of relational fields; AlphaFold; photosynthetic coherence; quantum entanglement; hard problem of consciousness; de-Hellenization; dynamic eternal ontology