Prototime, Timelessness, and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Journal of Consciousness Studies February 1, 2026 Barbara Montero
Might the seat of conscious experience exist in 'prototime', a conjectured aspatial, quasi-temporal reality out of which space-time emerges? Schneider and Bailey argue that if space-time is emergent, this might help us to understand the place of consciousness in the physical world. Although I agree that their hypothesis suggests a possible solution to the 'hard problem' of consciousness — the...