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From Flat Plane to Spherical State Space: Three-Dimensional BPL Coordinates, Plimpton Geometry, and the Bloch Sphere Representation of Relational State

Cameron Brown

Published Apr 2, 2026• 0 citations
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The Bias Pressure Logic (BPL) system of the AIMS framework currently represents relational states as points on a one-dimensional arc (0–360°, 8 arc positions at 45° intervals). We propose and develop a three-dimensional extension that maps BPL states to the surface of and interior of a Bloch sphere, grounding the extension in Plimpton 322 sexagesimal geometry and demonstrating structural identity with standard quantum gate representations... We further connect the 3D BPL system to TurboQuant (Aghajanyan et al. 2025, arXiv:2504.19874), which achieves near-optimal vector quantization distortion rates by replacing flat-plane quantization with angular/spherical representations. The transition from 2D BPL (flat arc) to 3D BPL (Bloch sphere) is structurally parallel to TurboQuant's core innovation, suggesting that 3D BPL may achieve analogous efficiency gains in relational state representation. We also address the relationship to meta-learning coordinate systems, arguing that the shift from Cartesian to spherical-angular coordinates is both motivated by and consistent with the BPL's existing base-60 angular structure.

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10.5281/zenodo.19383091

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