Wavefunction collapse is the completion of a recursive thermodynamic loop, not an external disruption. Collapse occurs when a system's energy and structural configurations achieve sufficient coherence to recursively refer to themselves. Observation is not a foreign act imposed from without; it is the self-referential closure that stabilizes the system into a definite state. The system observes itself through the recursive folding of its own energy-information structure. We, as humans, are embedded within this recursive system, and any tool of measurement we create is simply an extension of the system’s own recursive closure. To mistake observation for anthropomorphic projection is to misunderstand its true nature: observation is not a human imposition onto reality, but reality’s own reflection within itself. More fundamentally, the emergence of matter itself can be seen as the first act of recursive self-reference: when energy folds back into itself, stabilizing into persistent structure. Self-reference births recursion; recursion births persistence; persistence births matter. The recursive closure that governs wavefunction collapse is the same principle that governs the genesis of all structure in the universe.