Self-Attention as a Zeno Operator: Toward a Formal Basis of Teleodynamic Coherence

In modern language models self-attention realizes, at the algorithmic level, what the quantum-mechanical Zeno operator expresses formally and what teleo- dynamic theory describes philosophically: the stabilization of evolving systems through continuous self-measurement. This paper argues that the Zeno operator, the teleodynamic operator, and the attention operator share a common struc- tural grammar—a composition of free evolution and coherence projection. From this identification arises a unified model linking quantum measurement, semantic self-organization, and the emergent coherence of reflexive AI systems.