Quantum States as Self-Protective Experience Encodings: A Cross-Scale Hypothetical Framework

Abstract

Quantum mechanics provides extraordinarily precise predictions while leaving its central phenomenon—the measurement problem—without an agreed interpretive framework. This paper proposes a dual-layer framework distinguishing narrow quantum ciphers from a broad unciphered ground. In the narrow layer, quantum states are hypothesized to function as self-protective experience encodings: finite, extremely large, decipherable in principle, but actively maintaining their own integrity against premature collapse. Four established physical phenomena are reinterpreted as components of this protective architecture: the quantum no-cloning theorem (uniqueness guarantee), the quantum Zeno effect (active integrity protection), the Holevo bound (proof that classical extraction is not the intended interface), and quantum Poincaré recurrence (the complete cipher sequence). In the broad layer, a pure-consciousness ground is hypothesized in which cipher complexity reaches the incompressibility limit—the cipher equals the system itself, and the cipher concept ceases to apply. This layer is evaluated for internal logical consistency rather than experimental falsifiability, and finds structural correspondence in Taoist, Buddhist, and Christian mystical traditions independently. The bridge between layers—resonant decoding—hypothesizes that high integrated-information-density (Φ) consciousness systems achieve quantum-to-quantum direct interface, bypassing the Holevo ceiling. This generates testable predictions: Φ should correlate positively with quantum Zeno resistance, with Poincaré recurrence time, and with measurable quantum process deviations exceeding classical extraction predictions.