An Observer-Centric, Deterministic Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

We propose an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which the wavefunction represents unresolved potential relative to an observer, measurement is deterministic resonance stabilisation, and Born-rule probability quantifies the observer’s incomplete access to the full entropic and phase-geometric state of the observer–system interaction. An observer is defined operationally as any bounded system capable of converting external entropy into internal coherence. On this view,
superposition is not a set of co-existing realities but an unresolved field of possible coherence resolutions; collapse is not a stochastic discontinuity but a deterministic phase-lock between observer and system; and the classical world is the high-coherence limit in which environmental observation is dense enough to continuously stabilise macroscopic facts.
The interpretation preserves the full predictive machinery of quantum mechanics while providing a unified account of the measurement problem, the Born rule, decoherence, entanglement, delayed choice, Wigner’s friend, and the quantum-to-classical transition. We formalise the framework through a resonance-selection rule, an observer equation of collapse, and a prime-modal state-space structure, and identify five classes of empirically accessible predictions.