Quanthesis offers a new perspective on quantum phenomena: structural, intuitive, and independent of equations. With the Phenomenal World Picture, it provides a systematic framework for understanding particles, waves, events, and entanglement – all through iconic structural representations.
Quantum physics has reshaped our worldview — yet it remains difficult to grasp. For more than a century, it has been dominated by mathematical abstraction but rarely understood in its structural essence.
Quanthesis proposes a new way of seeing: quantum phenomena are not described through equations, but visually and structurally. Iconic structural diagrams reveal the inner form, dynamics, and transformations of quantum events.
At the heart of Quanthesis lies the Phenomenal World Model – a dynamic ontology that reorganizes structure, randomness, and events. It combines scientific precision with philosophical clarity and offers physics and philosophy a common conceptual framework.
Quantosis is the application of the general theory of structural reasoning – Semathesis – to quantum physics. As a structure-based framework, it forms the conceptual basis of Iconic AI Reasoning: a new generation of AI systems that not only deliver results but can also explain their internal structures visually and comprehensibly.
Across 20 examples – from the double slit to entanglement and quantum computing – Quantagrams make hidden structures visible. They offer a direct way to grasp complex processes without mathematical formulas.
Quantthesis is aimed at readers from philosophy, physics and the philosophy of science, as well as AI researchers, technologists and strategic decision-makers who want to recognize the potential of structural thinking for the next generation of artificial intelligence.
“Quantum physics can be understood without mathematics – through analogy to life. The first quantum phase, coherence, mirrors childhood and youth: a state of openness and possibility. The second phase, decoherence, corresponds to adulthood, when identity and form take shape. The end of quantum existence is absorption – the transition into a new phase. In the quanta, life itself is reflected: emergence, development, dissolution.“
Quantagrams are iconic structural diagrams that visually express the core dynamics of quantum systems. The book includes 20 examples demonstrating how phenomena become intuitive once their structure is revealed.
A photon encounters a beam splitter, and its amplitude is divided into two coherent components.
Physical Description
A photon in a state of superposition is symmetrically divided by the beam splitter into two coherent amplitude branches. Both components remain fully coherent and continue to belong to a single photon.
This Quantagram illustrates how light passes through a linear polarization filter — an everyday application of a quantum effect used in sunglasses.
An electron enters an inhomogeneous magnetic field and is split into two discrete spin orientations.
Physical Description
An electron in full superposition undergoes a spin measurement in the inhomogeneous magnetic field. The measurement relation projects it into the eigenvalues “spin-up” and “spin-down” with equal probability, producing two spatially separated beams.
These selected thoughts reflect the structural perspective introduced in Quanthesis.
Structure is the bridge between phenomena and understanding.
A quantum event becomes clear the moment its form becomes visible.
Being explains purpose, not purpose being.
— Dirk Gamboa
Quanthesis 2025, page 169
Mathematics describes – structure explains.
Complexity is not chaos.
It is patterned movement.
Quanthesis is the first volume of the Semathesis series — a comprehensive exploration of iconic-structural epistemic thinking.
The series develops a systematic theory of structural understanding that connects philosophy, physics, and AI.
Through successive volumes, Semathesis expands the structural world model and introduces new conceptual tools for reasoning, visualization, and scientific explanation.
The study of the pattern that makes complex phenomena understandable.
Dirk Gamboa is an industrial engineer with more than 30 years of experience in technology and industrial companies as an engineer, product manager, and trainer.
He developed the concepts of Semathesis, Quanthesis, and Iconic AI Reasoning, extending structural thinking from philosophy through physics into artificial intelligence.
His aim is to establish structural thinking beyond quantum physics, making dynamics and complexity intelligible as the foundation for new forms of understanding and innovation.
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