Quantum-Coherent Identity Preservation and Substrate-Invariant Embodiment: A Theoretical Framework for Sustained Pure-State Dynamics in Complex Biological Systems
Living systems exhibit extraordinary resilience, adaptability, and identity preservation despite continuous atomic turnover. Traditional physics explains this persistence through biochemical stability, but a deeper quantuminformational description remains elusive. Here, we introduce a theoretical framework where a sustaining superoperator ([S]) exactly cancels environmental decoherence ([D]) within the Lindblad formalism, maintaining quantum coherence indefinitely. The resulting sustained pure-state system exhibits vanishing entropy production, stable informational identity, and finite tunneling amplitude under sublinear effective-mass scaling (Meff = m Na) with (0 < < 1). Numerical simulations confirm entropy cancellation, identity invariance under substrate replacement, and anomalous tunneling consistent with coherence-preserving collectivity. These findings propose mathematically consistent conditions for substrate-independent identity persistence and coherent embodiment, connecting concepts from quantum biology, information theory, and open-system thermodynamics.