The Quantum Measurement Problem: A Dialectical Materialist Resolution

This paper addresses the century-old dilemma of the quantum measurement problem, which stems from a denial and neglect of the consequences of measurement intervention at the microscopic scale. Using the "Infinitesimal Theorem"—a new proposition in dialectical materialism that defines the essence of a thing as the integration of all its connections—as its theoretical starting point, the paper offers a systematic treatment of wave function collapse. The core arguments are: the wave function is the mathematical expression of all connections of a quantum object; the physical essence of measurement is the intervention of a new series of connections, led by human agency, into the object's integration of connections; collapse is the logical update of the integration following the entry of new connections; and consciousness is not the mechanistic trigger condition for collapse. Phenomena and thought experiments such as quantum tunneling, double-slit interference, quantum erasure, and Schrödinger's cat all obtain coherent dialectical-materialist explanations within the framework of the Infinitesimal Theorem. There is no ontological gap between quantum mechanics and classical mechanics, only a difference in the sensitivity of the integration of connections to intervention at different scales. This paper modifies neither the mathematical structure of quantum mechanics nor introduces additional hypotheses. It merely transforms the fundamental propositions of materialist dialectics from methodology to ontology, thereby allowing the measurement problem to resolve itself.