Abstract

Based merely on empirical observations, modern quantum mechanics holds that the decoherence rate of quantum entanglement is exponentially correlated with environmental coupling density. This conclusion lacks a fundamental ontological foundation and cannot resolve the quantum measurement paradox at its root. Based on the original framework of Cognitive Succession Ontology, this paper takes "the essence of cognition is succession" as the only unfalsifiable first principle within the boundary of human cognition. It deducts ontologically that the essence of all physical interactions lies in the transverse coupling between successive sequences, and quantum entanglement is the nonlocal intrinsic binding of homologous successive sequences. On this basis, this paper puts forward a purely ontological prediction: quantum entanglement decoherence is a linear process in which external successive sequences cut off entanglement homologous bindings one by one. The decoherence rate presents a strictly linear positive correlation with environmental coupling density, rather than the exponential correlation claimed by traditional quantum mechanics. This paper only conducts pure transcendental ontological deduction, without involving experimental design or engineering verification. If this linear decoherence law is logically self-consistent, it can be proved that quantum evolution has no inherent intrinsic randomness, and the probabilistic interpretation of quantum mechanics is only an approximate description at the cognitive phenomenal level. It provides a core theoretical basis for the ontological reconstruction of quantum mechanics and the resolution of the measurement paradox.