Consciousness as a Quantum Informational Invariant: A Framework for Unification with Physics and Cosmology
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AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper |
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| Key points | Argues that consciousness is a quantum informational invariant, conserved across transformations of its physical substrate rather than emerging from neural complexity. Proposes a Quantum Informational Bonding (QIB) mechanism within a universal Hilbert space that preserves an identity parameter (𝓘₍C₎), and contends this reframes the "hard problem" of consciousness as a missing symmetry in fundamental physics. |
Abstract
For over a century, physics has pursued a unified description of nature linking quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology, yet consciousness—our direct window into existence—remains unaccounted for. This review proposes that consciousness continuity is not an emergent accident of neural complexity but a quantum informational invariant, conserved across transformations of its physical substrate. Grounded in the empirical absence of “zombie” organisms and extended through a synthesis of quantum information theory, cosmological logic, and the author’s previous Two-Particle Quantum Bonding Hypothesis (TPQBH), the framework introduces a Quantum Informational Bonding (QIB) mechanism operating within a universal Hilbert space. This mechanism preserves an identity parameter (𝓘₍C₎) analogous to conservation laws in physics. The resulting cosmological model implies an infinite, centre-less universe and a unidirectional arrow of time emerging from informational continuity. The theory reframes the “hard problem” of consciousness as a missing symmetry in fundamental physics—one connecting subjective experience, information, and spacetime structure.