The Expiration Date of Object Permanence

This research paper by language philosopher Bry Willis argues that the perceived paradoxes of quantum mechanics are actually linguistic and cognitive errors rather than physical mysteries. The author suggests that object permanence is a highly effective heuristic developed in infancy that humans incorrectly treat as a universal law of reality. By examining matter-wave interference in large particles, Willis demonstrates that our object-based expectations predictably fail when environmental interference is removed. The text claims that grammatical structures trap us into seeking persistent identities where they do not exist, creating "pseudoproblems" like Schrödinger's cat. Ultimately, the work reframes quantum strangeness as a boundary issue, showing that our conceptual tools simply have a limited range of operation. Under this view, the goal of philosophy is to map the specific conditions where our everyday descriptive habits expire.👉 http://philosophics.blog📝 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18364182