Adaptive Quantum Coherence: A Self-Organizing Framework for Quantum Mechanics

Current quantum interpretations—Copenhagen, Many-Worlds, Bohmian mechanics, and QBism—each fail logically, mathematically, or thermodynamically. The Copenhagen interpretation lacks a physical mechanism for wavefunction collapse, violating entropy conservation. The Many-Worlds Interpretation (MWI) requires an infinite proliferation of universes, violating energy conservation and measure theory. Bohmian mechanics introduces nonlocal hidden variables that contradict relativity while failing to offer testable deviations from standard quantum mechanics. QBism collapses physics into subjective probability, rendering reality epistemically incoherent. I introduce Adaptive Quantum Coherence (AQC), a self-organizing framework where quantum states evolve through recursive coherence refinement rather than collapse or branching. In this paradigm, measurement is a selection process driven by coherence-weighted probabilities, replacing the Born rule with an adaptive probability measure. I derive the Coherence-Weighted Wavefunction ​ and demonstrate how quantum probability distributions emerge naturally from coherence optimization rather than arbitrary wavefunction projection. AQC resolves the measurement problem, eliminates redundancy in MWI, and preserves information-theoretic constraints. I propose empirical tests and computational simulations to distinguish AQC from conventional quantum mechanics, including adaptive interference experiments and coherence-weighted qubit evolution in quantum computing. This work establishes AQC as the only logically consistent, thermodynamically viable, and empirically falsifiable quantum framework.