Beyond the Wavefunction: Qualia Abstraction Language Mechanics and the Grammar of Awareness
This work addresses foundational issues in quantum mechanics and AI by offering a novel, introspectively grounded framework, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing philosophical and theoretical concepts without presenting empirical results.
The authors tackled the observer paradox in quantum mechanics by proposing the Qualia Abstraction Language (QAL), which models physical systems as streams of subjective experience instead of state vectors, reimagining superposition, collapse, and entanglement as structured dynamics of awareness.
We propose a formal reconstruction of quantum mechanics grounded not in external mathematical abstractions, but in the structured dynamics of subjective experience. The Qualia Abstraction Language (QAL) models physical systems as evolving streams of introspective units, structured sequences of modality, shape, and functional effect, rather than as state vectors in Hilbert space. This approach reimagines core quantum concepts: superposition becomes a form of structured ambiguity; collapse is reframed as an introspective contraction; and entanglement is modeled as semantic resonance across streams of qualia. Drawing on insights from nominalist philosophy and oversight theoretic limits in AI, we argue that the observer paradox in quantum mechanics reflects not an ontological lacuna, but a linguistic one: the absence of a formal vocabulary for modeling first person structure. QAL introduces such a vocabulary, providing a morphodynamic framework that embeds the observer within the system and replaces abstract projection with endogenous transformation. We analyze the alignment of QAL with endophysical approaches, contrast it with standard interpretations of quantum theory, and explore its implications for a post Platonist, introspectively grounded physics.