The double-slit experiment has been instrumental in the birth and development of quantum mechanics. It gives insight not only into the behavior of reduced quantum-objects, but also into a minimum viable quantum computational whole. In a four-part mini-series, I derive distinct quantum computational paradigms based on what exactly is being measured and how this is taking place. To summarize:

• Paradigm 1 is the commonly accepted one in which measured quantum objects subject to statistics and probability are imagined to represent the quantum computational whole.
• In Paradigm 2, the observer (an inanimate/animate entity that interacts with the quantum computational whole) is a measuring device placed close to the double-slit. The measurement may allow something of the computational whole to be measured rather than the reduced quantum object. Measuring the whole, though, requires a different measurement paradigm than the one in practice now, and in a patent I filed in 2022, I suggest a flexible, scalable quantum computing architecture based on gates organized to propagate property or function derived from the quantum computational whole, and unique mathematics — Fourfold Function-Based Mathematics of Light (F3MOL) — to manipulate such function. I will refer to this as a QIQuantum-type computer (re: QIQuantum). This computer looks at the quantum level differently, and different combinations of gates can be combined to create higher levels of computing sophistication.
• Paradigm 3 is based on perceiving more of the wholeness (using the strands of the interference pattern on the screen as the basis/metaphor) and also uses a QIQuantum-type computer. The arbitration of the higher level of wholeness that has implicit in it a larger range of functions becomes the basis of a more sophisticated quantum computing possibility. I have written IEEE papers that reinterpret the notion of quanta and enhance and reinterpret fundamental quantum computational anchors established by Feynman, Euler, Schrodinger, and Heisenberg, that begin to shed light on F3MOL and the possibilities of quantum computational wholeness.
• Paradigm 4, where two wholenesses are made to interact, also requires a QIQuantum-type computer. In this scenario, human beings can be a part of the quantum computational architecture. More insight into the QIQuantum-type computer architecture is provided by the IEEE nano-cyborg paper, and more insight into human-in-the-loop quantum computing is provided by the IEEE paper that views the universe as a complex adaptive system (CAS).