A Unified Hypothesis of Creation and Consciousness: Perception Enabled by a Universal Reference as the Source of Consciousness

Abstract

The origin of creation and the emergence of subjective experience remain among the deepest unsolved questions in science. We propose a unified hypothesis in which 'creation' is any entity or process with a beginning and an end in space and time. This premise implies the existence of a universal ground state as the source which is all-pervading, eternal, uniform and memoryless. All observable phenomena arise as cyclical fluctuations within this ground state, which simultaneously serves as a stable universal reference (ground zero) enabling the detection of change. We redefine consciousness as a measurement problem enabled by this universal ground zero reference, with subjective experience originating from the resonance and energy redistribution between perceived signals and stored memory cycles. This re-frames the hard problem of consciousness by grounding perception in a universal substrate present at every point in the universe. The apparent differences in awareness between different points in space is arising from their state of evolution with variation in memory capacity and responsiveness.