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Yes, the Aristotelian concepts of potentiality (dynamis) and actuality (entelecheia or energeia) map nicely to what you describe and Heisenberg (in his paper "Philosophie und Physik") has argued for a resurrection of exactly these categories to get a better grasp of quantum mechanics - a more fruitful line of enquiry IMO then the many-worlds interpretation which transfers the modal realism of Lewis into physics instead...
– Julius Leist
Commented Jun 16, 2020 at 9:20

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