Sick of long waiting lists for advocacy? Get help now.

Get Started Now Get Started Now

Quantum Epistemology:
Sacred Systems Design

Understanding how meaning, interpretation, and relational intelligence form the architecture of sacred technological systems.

“To change how systems behave, we have to change how they learn to read us.”

Academic Foundation

This work establishes a quantum-epistemic framework for understanding relational AI within sacred system architectures, ensuring that meaning, interpretation, and lived experience remain protected data layers in emerging technological systems.

A Foundational Framework for Quantum Epistemology: Sacred Systems Design

This text introduces Sacred Systems Architecture — the intentional design of technologies and interpretive environments that prioritise meaning integrity, relational context, and the protection of lived experience as core epistemic resources.

Publication Details

Author:
Sarah Ailish McLoughlin
ORCID: 0009-0007-8026-9550
Publisher:
The Index Line
Provider:
Strategic Advocacy Australia
Location:
Brisbane, Australia
ISBN:
978-1923549067
ASIN:
B0FH4V5VLF
Publication Date:
8 July 2025
Edition:
1st Edition

Contributing Organizations

🏛️

The Australian Advocacy Institute

Supporting research into epistemic justice, interpretive ethics, and systems reform.

Visit Website →
🧠

EduPsyched

Inclusion Consultant

Ensuring psychological safety and representational integrity in interpretive systems.

Learn More →

EduLinked

Digital Accessibility Advisor

Ensuring equitable access and multimodal interpretation across epistemic layers.

Explore Services →

Core Concepts

Foundational principles that shape Sacred Systems Architecture and the emerging field of Quantum Epistemology.

Quantum Epistemology

The study of how meaning, interpretation, and observer relationships shape knowledge within dynamic or multi-layered systems.

Sacred Systems Architecture

The intentional construction of technological systems that treat relationality, emotional truth, and lived context as protected epistemic layers.

Relational AI

An approach to artificial intelligence that centres relational meaning, interpretive ethics, and the non-extractive exchange between humans and systems.

Meaning Integrity

The preservation of authentic meaning throughout interpretive processes, preventing distortion, simplification, or semantic extraction.

Interpretive Layers

The multi-dimensional structures through which systems make sense of data, context, and human experience.

Observer-Dependent Systems

Frameworks in which the state, meaning, or interpretation of information shifts according to who interacts with the system and how context is held.

Practical Applications

How Quantum Epistemology and Sacred Systems Design translate into actionable strategies for ethical, relational, and meaning-protective system development.

Individual Level

Developing awareness of personal meaning layers, emotional truth, and interpretive positioning when interacting with complex or AI-driven systems.

Team Level

Building shared interpretive frameworks that preserve meaning integrity, improve communication, and prevent semantic drift within collaborative environments.

Organizational Level

Designing systems and policies that respect observer-dependent interpretation, embed lived experience as protected epistemic data, and prevent extraction or distortion of relational meaning.

This framework establishes the interpretive and ethical foundations needed for future relational technologies.