Quantum Coding of the Self

Self-awareness disturbance is a feature in many mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder, and may be due to various triggering factors which have been studied at psychiatric, medical, and biological level. At the level of quantum logic, however, it seems possible to formalize the loss of self-awareness in terms of quantum error-correcting codes. Cases of schizophrenia and autism spectrum disorder are presented, the former strictly in the context of quantum error-correcting codes, the latter in relation to the lack of a quantum metalanguage and, consequently, the lack of coherent states.