Merkel cells a primary factor in generating philosophical discomfort with superposed states

                                                                 Merkel Cells stained with fluorescent dye.                                 

• P1) Over millions of years experience leads us to believe, in the same way that instinct is “learned” by a species, that two exclusive things cannot occupy the same space.
• Endowed with foresight by the cerebral cortex, humans then develop the intuitive sense that, categorically, no two exclusive objects can occupy the same space.
• P2) This gives rise to the broader logical concept of negation and definition by negation: thing A is not thing B.
• P3) With the same means used to justify the Sheffer Stroke we can now explain our intuition for formal, binary, Boolean/mathematical logic provided that we can also give a historical account for the concept(s) “and” or “or.”
• These concepts are both supplied as soon as we posit the “first ontological piece” + 1, and their appearance happens simultaneously by virtue of p2.
• P4) Using this binary-based mathematical logic, Newton and Leibniz invent calculus and several physical sciences bloom, rendering our understanding of the natural world on a large scale.
• Multivalent and fuzzy logic will also come eventually, but only from meta-analysis of bivalent logic.
• P5) In the 20^th Century, human beings bear witness to small things for the first time. Classical models “break down” because objects of little mass do not exhibit the same behaviors seen in macro phenomena.
• P6) Our logical intuitions cause us to question why superposition does not adhere to the world’s “normal” behavior, or, rather, we ask why the world does not square with our intuitions.
• At its heart superposition undermines p2 because it violates the assumptions of p1 with regard to state; p1 no longer implies that one thing does not occupy two spaces/states.
• P7) The commensurability problem between superposition and p2 is relaxed when we consider that there is no reason that every corner of the universe (specifically quantum corners) should comply with our logical intuitions. This is because the consistent correlation between logical and mathematical truths with empirical observations has hereto been what may be called a false isomorphism—a dual succession of deductive procedures compatible between what only appears to be two systems: mathematical logic, and the world as it is subjected to empirical experimentation.
• First there is the application of a bivalent logical postulate to the ingression of sensory data upon our physical bodies, which creates a systematic ordering of the natural world—and the creation of a mental world of order that is neither Platonic nor divine.
• Outcomes of the manipulation of symbols within this mental realm can then be verified by experimental observations: of course. The output is the same as the input. The “second” system seems to be the physical framework of our world, but natural order and our innate logical/mathematical order are selfsame.
• P8) The philosophical problem arises that the p7 explanation is only satisfactory if there is a cause for countenancing the “first ontological piece” through the means of logical negation. (Which really came first, p1 or p2?) In order for the isomorphic premise (p7) to eat its own tail, the process it describes must begin somewhere. In other words, there must be a reason for our first supposing that two things are separate. And this cause should be supported by at least one identifiable evolutionary/scientific beginning to be satisfactory. A sufficient case: we differentiate the separation of our bodies (about which the CNS receives a constant flow of tactile information) from the rest of the world (about which it doesn't) through the sense of touch, through integumentary nerve bundles—Merkel cells.

Therefore: Merkel cells (and other tactile PNS sensation) lead to our discomfort with superposed states and can now bring comfort to those still “touchy” about quantum phenomena.