The Consciousness Field

Research Article The Consciousness Field Advances in Bioengineering & Biomedical Science Research ISSN: 2640-4133 Paul C. Mocombe West Virginia State University, The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc *Corresponding author Paul C. Mocombe, West Virginia State University, The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc Submitted: 20 Feb 2021; Accepted: 03 March 2021; Published: 08 March 2021 Citation: Paul C. Mocombe (2021). The Consciousness Field. Adv Bioeng Biomed Sci Res, 2021, 5(1), 11-.16 Keywords: Structurationism, Praxis, Panpsychism, Social Class Language Game, Phenomenological Structuralism, ORCH-OR The- ory, Univon Multiverse Hypothesis, Free-will, Determinism, Haitian Epistemology, Consciousness Field Theory, Conscious Electro- magnetic Information Theory (CEMI) Introduction This article attempts to theoretically outline the nature and ori- gins of the consciousness field in Paul C. Mocombe’s theory of phenomenological structuralism (PS). The author posits that con- sciousness is an emergent force of the universe that is received by the brain and integrated by its electromagnetic field to constitute mind, practical consciousness, and the self in material worlds of the multiverse. As such, the consciousness field, once assimilated in the absolute vacuum, is an interconnected, endless, and nonlocal fifth force of nature, which, initially, emerges following matter ag- gregation and disaggregation in the multiverse. It (the conscious- ness field) is an endless assimilation of all past, present, and future information (practical activities and memories) of the multiverse recycled via the absolute vacuum (empty space in which elementa- ry particles, quarks, and constituents of matter and forces of nature have become one), which fluctuates as probability wave functions, to give rise to entangled

and superimposed worlds, each with their own consciousness fields, with conscious beings. Background of the Problem Consciousness here refers to subjective awareness of phenome- nal experiences, qualia, (ideology, language, self, feelings, choice, control of voluntary behavior, thoughts, etc.) of internal and ex- ternal worlds. The academic literature “describes three possibil- ities regarding the origin and place of consciousness in the uni- verse: (A) as an emergent property of complex brain neuronal computation, (B) as spiritual quality of the universe, distinct from purely physical actions, and (C) as composed of discrete ‘pro- to-conscious’ events acting in accordance with physical laws not yet fully understood” (Hameroff and Penrose, 2014, pg. 70). The latter position, (C), represents the ORCH-OR (“orchestrated ob- jective reduction”) theory of Stuart Hameroff and Roger Penrose (2014), which includes aspects of (A) and (B), and posits that “consciousness consists of discrete moments, each an ‘orches- trated’ quantum-computational process terminated by… an action [,objective reduction or OR,] rooted in quantum aspects of the fine structure of space—time geometry, this being coupled to brain neuronal processes via microtubules” (pg. 70). In this view, the understanding is that a proto-conscious experience existed in the universe, panpsychism, and as a result of emergent structures of the brain it (proto-conscious experience, psychion) became em- bodied and evolved as a result of quantum neuronal computations of “brains”. That is to say, in the protein structures, microtubules, of the neurons of the brain, which serves or acts like a quantum su- percomputer, information and memories are

stored and processed to orchestrate human conscious awareness. This latter position is neither pushing forth a spiritual understanding of consciousness as highlighted by physicists who view consciousness as emerging out of and seated in the electromagnetic field of the brain; nor is it a dualist interpretation as found in the CEMI theory of Johnjoe McFadden (2020) who wants to hold on to the brain’s neurons (material substance) and its electromagnetic field (energy/spiritu- al substance) as the generator and seat of consciousness, respec- tively. Instead, it is an underdeveloped materialist account of the origins and nature of consciousness in the multiverse. This article completes the materialism of ORCH-OR theory through Paul C. Mocombe’s consciousness field theory (CFT) of phenomenologi- cal structuralism (PS). For me, building on Paul C. Mocombe’s (2018) structurationist and consciousness field theory with its basis in ORCH-OR theory, this conscious awareness, i.e., consciousness, is an emergent ma- terial substance, psychions, the phenomenal properties, qualia, of which becomes the mind (personal and collective unconscious and ego) of human actors expressed in entangled and superimposed multiple worlds as their practical activity or practical conscious- ness. In this Mocombeian (structurationist) view, consciousness is not fundamental; instead, it is an emergent (material) property of the multiverse, which is constituted and expressed, in the human sphere through subatomic particle aggregation, mode of produc- Adv Bioeng Biomed Sci Res, 2021 www.opastonline.com Volume 5 | Issue 1 | 11 tion, language, ideology, ideological apparatuses, communicative discourse, and praxis. In this sense, Mocombe eliminates any spiritual

elements (B) regarding consciousness constitution for a strict materialist perspective, which does not solely attributes con- sciousness to the mechanical brain, i.e., the neural correlates of consciousness; instead, the brain is a receiver of consciousness, the subatomic particle, psychion, of which is recycled, replicated, entangled, and superimposed throughout the multiverse via mi- crotubules of neurons of the brain and its electromagnetic field (see Figure 4). The consciousness field (once assimilated in the absolute vacuum) is an interconnected, nonlocal, and endless as- similation of all past, present, and future information (practical ac- tivities) of the multiverse recycled via the absolute vacuum (empty space in which elementary particles, quarks, and constituents of matter and forces of nature have become one), which fluctuates as wave functions, to give rise to entangled and superimposed worlds with (local) consciousness fields and conscious beings. Hence, Paul C. Mocombe’s (2019) structurationist theory of phenomenological structuralism, building on and synthesizing a form of M-theory with, mathematical elements of univon multi- verse hypothesis, the quantum computation of ORCH-OR theory, Black Hole Big Bang Theory (BHBBT), structurationism, and the multiverse ideas of Haitian ontology/epistemology and quantum mechanics abductively posits that spacetime is fundamental; and consciousness is an emergent fifth force of nature, a field of con- sciousness (the consciousness field—CF) composed of a quantum material substance/energy, psychion, the phenomenal property, qualia or informational content, of which is recycled/replicated/ entangled/superimposed (via the absolute vacuum following mat- ter disaggregation) throughout the multiverse and becomes em- bodied via the microtubules of neurons of

brains and aggregate matter of multiple worlds with consciousness fields to constitute mind (see Figures 1 and 2) (Mocombe, 2021). Mind (composed of the personal and collective unconscious, and the sense-experience of the emerging ego held together by the brain’s electromagnetic field generated by the periodic discharge of neurons), in turn, is manifested in simultaneous, entangled, superimposed, and inter- connecting material resource frameworks, multiple worlds (each with their own consciousness fields), as praxis or practical con- sciousness of organic life, the content (past, present, and future experiences of beings experiencing, entangled and superimposed, material realities) of which in-turn becomes the phenomenal prop- erties, qualia, of material (subatomic particle energy, psychion) consciousness that is recycled/replicated/entangled/superimposed via the consciousness fields throughout the multiverse and the absolute vacuum upon matter disaggregation (see Figure 3). In other words, existence precedes essence; but essence is emergent and eternal, and comes to constitute a fifth force of nature, a field of consciousness for Being production (the consciousness field), through the phenomenal properties, qualia (personal and collective unconscious), of neuronal subatomic particles, psychion, which are recycled/replicated/superimposed/entangled throughout the multiverse (via the absolute vacuum) and give human actors their initial (essential) practical consciousness that they organize and reproduce in replicated, entangled, and superimposed material re- source frameworks (see Figures 3 and 4). In this theory, the (local) consciousness field(s) and the nonlocality of the absolute vacuum are distinct; the latter is an amalgamation of elementary particles and the constituents of matter, which have become one following matter disaggregation,

and endlessly produces more multiverses and worlds with conscious beings who experience these worlds via the former, the consciousness fields of superimposed and en- tangled worlds of the multiverse. Theory and Methods Within Mocombe’s theory of phenomenological structuralism (PS) the psychological assumptions are that human psychological development emerges from consciousness, which is an emergent fifth force of nature, a field of consciousness or consciousness field. Consciousness is an emergent fifth force of nature, a field of consciousness or the consciousness field, composed of a quantum material substance/energy, i.e., elementary particle, psychion, the phenomenal property, qualia or informational content (past, pres- ent, and future experiences of beings experiencing, entangled and superimposed, material realities), of which is recycled/replicated/ entangled/superimposed, via the absolute vacuum, throughout the multiverse and becomes embodied via the microtubules of neu- rons of brains and multiple worlds to constitute mind. Mind, com- posed of the personal and collective unconscious, and the emerg- ing sense-experiences of the ego, qualia (past, present, and future experiences of beings experiencing, entangled and superimposed, material realities), held together or given uniformity and integrated as an I via the electromagnetic field of the brain is manifested in simultaneous, entangled, superimposed, and interconnecting ma- terial resource frameworks, multiple worlds, each with their own (local) consciousness fields, as praxis or practical consciousness of organic life, the content of which in-turn becomes the phenom- enal properties, qualia, of material (subatomic particle energy, psychion) consciousness that is recycled/replicated/entangled/su- perimposed throughout the multiverse upon matter disaggregation via the consciousness fields

and the nonlocality of the absolute vacuum. In other words, existence precedes essence; but essence is emergent and eternal, and comes to constitute a fifth force of nature, a field of consciousness for Being production, through the phenomenal properties, qualia (personal and collective uncon- scious sense experiences of past, present, and future existences of multiple worlds), of neuronal subatomic particles, psychion, which are recycled/replicated/superimposed/entangled throughout the multiverse, via the absolute vacuum, and give human actors their initial (essential and unconscious) practical consciousness that they organize and reproduce in replicated, entangled, and su- perimposed material resource frameworks each with their own en- tangled and superimposed local consciousness fields. The brain is a receiver of consciousness from the consciousness fields of the multiverse (see Figure 4). This consciousness field theory, CFT, of phenomenological structuralism suggests that the EM field of the brain is not the seat of consciousness; instead, it (the brain’s EM field) serves more like a glue, which holds and integrates consciousness, which emerges from its on (force) field, together. In other words, consciousness emerges out of an emerg- ing field composed of subatomic particles, psychions, which have phenomenal properties (qualia or informational content, i.e., past, present, and future experiences of beings of superimposed worlds) and become embodied in the neurons of brains that constitute an electromagnetic field during their firing that holds the psychions together as an individuated consciousness in order to experience Adv Bioeng Biomed Sci Res, 2021 www.opastonline.com Volume 5 | Issue 1 | 12 objective reality.

The informational content, i.e., phenomenal properties of this individuated consciousness, following matter disaggregation, i.e., death, either collapses upon other variants of itself that exist in the multiverse, or returns (as psychions) to the absolute vacuum, if all lines of its past/present/future selves have been exhausted, to constitute future Beings of the multiverse with consciousness. The consciousness field emerges separately from the first four forces (gravity, electromagnetism, the strong and weak nuclear forces) of nature, the subatomic particles of which tunneled as wave functions from the absolute vacuum to create an original universe. This original universe evolved and replicated itself, via black holes (BHBBT), to create present and future replicas of it- self, multiverses, which evolved to produce, entangled and simi- larly situated, organic life whose experiences of the superimposed worlds produced the qualia that would constitute the conscious- ness fields as psychions. These psychions (the elementary particles of consciousness), qualia or informational content of past, pres- ent, and future experiences of beings experiencing, entangled and superimposed, material realities, following matter disaggregation, either collapse/collapsed upon other versions of itself similarly sit- uated, or return/returned to the original absolute vacuum of the multiverse to constitute a permanent field, the consciousness field, along with the other four forces of nature, which are now one (a structureless and timeless empty space of elementary particles, quarks, and constituents of matter in the form of wave functions), to create endless multiverses with beings with consciousness, past, present, and future experiences of beings experiencing, entangled and superimposed,

material realities. We experience the absolute vacuum directly, outside of death and the exhaustion of every aspects of our existence, in material existence during near death experiences, depression induced prognostic dreams and trances, psychic mediations, and mystical/spiritual or religious revelations. Drugs may replicate the feelings we experience when integrating in the absolute vacuum, but they do not connect us to it. Discussion Hence, the logical assumptions for Mocombe as it pertains to the nature and origins of the consciousness fields are that the fields are, 1) emerging, following the first initial aggregation and dis- aggregation of matter in the multiverse from the wave functions of the absolute vacuum composed initially from the elementary particles of gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces; 2) independent of the human body; 3) reified and constituted independently of the other four forces of nature, but emerges with them, following the initial instantiation of the mul- tiverse, to constitute future absolute vacuums that tunnel as wave functions to create universes with entangled and superimposed consciousnesses; 4) local and nonlocal, the former once instantiat- ed in multiple worlds of the multiverse, and the latter once assim- ilated in the absolute vacuum; 5) endless; 6) interconnected; and 7) informational. Unlike the Atman of Hinduism or the Bon-dye of Haitian Vodou, which posits the source (God) of consciousness as fundamental to the multiverse out of which our own individ- ual consciousnesses emerge and return to following our deaths, Mocombe’s consciousness field is emerging following the initial

aggregation of matter from the quantum tunneling of the first four forces of the multiverse, and comes to constitute a fifth force of nature, i.e., the consciousness field. The fields, reified and consti- tuted as the phenomenal properties, qualia, of subatomic particles, psychions, experiencing material realities, is located in entangled and superimposed time and places (local consciousness fields). It becomes nonlocal, following matter disaggregation, in the empty space of the absolute vacuum. The absolute vacuum is not locat- ed “in a particular time or place. This is known as nonlocality. Complete and endless consciousness [(in the absolute vacuum)] is everywhere in a dimension that is not tied to time or place, where past, present, and future all exist and are accessible at the same time. This endless consciousness [(of the absolute vacuum)] is al- ways in and around us” (van Lommel, 210, pg. xvii). Following the initial constitution of the multiverse, material being evolved in historical and hierarchical descending order of all their, past, present, and future aggregated existences in different universes of the multiverse. The informational content, i.e., phenomenal prop- erties, qualia, of their past, present, and future individuated con- sciousnesses, following matter disaggregation, i.e., death, either collapses upon the consciousness fields of other past, present, and future variants of themselves that still exist in the multiverse or returns to the absolute vacuum, if all lines of their past/present/ future selves have been exhausted, which holds the phenomenal properties of all Beings as psychions that are recycled to continu-

ously produce and reproduce Beings with practical consciousness. Hence the ancients were correct in venerating the spirit of their an- cestors who, had they exhausted all of their existences, could prog- nosticate the future to their progenitors from the absolute vacuum to which they returned via dreams and trances. Just the same, the Jesus of Western Christendom as God embodied to teach humanity how to live a holy life is only veridical within this metaphysical understanding of the constitution of Being due to the fact that it is only as embodied being or via dreams, trances, etc., of the proph- ets are Beings, or a Being, of the absolute vacuum able to reveal the past, present, and future experiences of Beings experiencing material realities, which is predetermined (which also means there is no such thing as free will in the multiverse, which makes reve- lation possible). These two examples, ancestor veneration and the revelations of Jesus and the prophets, are not used to imply that the absolute vac- uum should be equated with God or the mind of God as we find in George Berkeley’s Christian metaphysics, Hinduism, or Vodou- ism. They are just two examples among many others (near-death experience, deathbed visions, mystical and religious experiences, reincarnation, prognostic dreams, heightened intuitive feelings, etc.) that should be utilized to either falsify or verify the nature and origins of Mocombe’s consciousness field and its theory. Conclusions On this physics of the absolute vacuum and consciousness fields, Mocombe builds his systemic philosophy,

sociology, and psychol- ogy called phenomenological structuralism by tying the emergence of the field of consciousness, the consciousness field, composed of psychions to human sociological and psychological develop- ment and experiences, which constitute the phenomenal properties (qualia) of the psychions, which form the tripartite structure (ego, personal and collective unconscious) of the emerging human mind manifested as their practical activities. Psychologically speaking, in other words, the field of consciousness or consciousness field Adv Bioeng Biomed Sci Res, 2021 www.opastonline.com Volume 5 | Issue 1 | 13 is the basis for psychological development. The field is an emer- gent fifth force of nature composed of the psychion, which is the energy substance that constitutes and transmits the ego essence of an individual person to the microtubules of neurons of brains (see Figure 4). The ego essence, psychion, is composed of all the personal and collective sense experiences (personal and collective unconscious of the ego, i.e., its past, present, and future experi- ences of physical realities), the phenomenal properties or qualia, of the individual person, which becomes embodied in the micro- tubules of neurons in the brain as a result of matter aggregation across multiple simultaneous existing past/present/future worlds/ universes. The structure of the mind, in the end, is composed of the ego and the personal and collective unconscious, which becomes embodied, as the qualia of psychions, via the microtubules of neu- rons of the aggregated brain and its EM field across replicated si- multaneous past/present/future worlds of the multiverse. The EM

field’s “source is the electrical dipoles within the neuronal mem- branes caused by the motion of ions in and out of those membranes during action potentials and synaptic potentials. The periodic dis- charge of neurons—firing or action potentials—generates EMF waves that propagate out of the neuron and into the surrounding inter-neuronal spaces where they overlap and combine to gener- ate the brain’s global EM field that is routinely measured by brain scanning techniques such as electroencephalography (EEG) and magnetoencephalography (MEG)” (McFadden, 2020, pg. 5). The EM field integrates and holds together, like a glue, the ego essence, individuated consciousness of being, their psychion, which emerg- es out of its own force, the consciousness field. The ego, in other words, is the (material) essence, psychion, of the individual being. It is a composite of their past/present/future experiences, which emerge as the personal and collective unconscious, i.e., qualia, es- sence, of the ego. The latter two as such are the past/present/future biological and sociological sense experiences of the ego over all of its lived-experiences across the multiverse. Following matter disaggregation, the psychion, either collapses unto other versions of itself still in existence in the multiverse and their consciousness fields or integrates into the absolute vacuum awaiting, as wave functions, to be reproduced in other multiverses and worlds. The (human) individual, doing embodiment, only becomes aware of itself as an ego with personal and collective tastes that individ- uates them from other objects and persons when they encounter conflict/tension, throughout their lifespan, in

becoming and being- in-worlds constituted via five (sociological) systems, i.e., mode of production, language, ideology, ideological apparatuses, and com- municative discourse. Future research must 1 continue to search for evidence of mul- tiverses and other forms of existence tied to our present world, which will be similarly constituted as our own universe, and 2) proofs for the existence of the field of consciousness or conscious- ness field and its force, psychion, in order to falsify or verify Mo- combe’s overall theory of phenomenological structuralism. Adv Bioeng Biomed Sci Res, 2021 www.opastonline.com Volume 5 | Issue 1 | 14 brains (figure a, adopted from McFadden, 2020, represents the hu- man brain—left (L) and right (R) hemispheres—and its EM field, which holds together and integrates the qualia of psychions, in- formational content of the superverse/multiverses, which becomes individuated consciousness recursively organized and reproduced as practical consciousness), which produces an EM field that holds together and integrates the qualia of the psychions as individuated consciousness. For Mocombe, building on BHBBT, the supervers- es with entangled and superimposed (via black holes) multiverses share the same informational content. So, the hypothesis here is that one superverse created (from the absolute vacuum) a universe, and its informational content is entangled and superimposed on top of another superverse with the informational content of the previous universe emerging in it via black holes. Hence what you have are a layer of multiverses and superverses, superimposed and entangled, whose informational contents are shared or recycled via black holes, which

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