Some phenomenological implications of a quantum model of consciousness

Patrick A. Heelan

Kotenko, Valeriy

PrefaceThis monograph presents the Quantum Wave-Impulse Model of Consciousness (QWIM).The intention is not to offer a casual speculation but to provide a mathematically explicitand experimentally falsifiable framework that unites quantum information concepts withneurophysiology and cognitive phenomenology. The author assumes responsibility for thetheoretical constructions herein and welcomes rigorous critique and empirical testing.The work is organized to introduce the ontological premises, derive the formal structure,propose biophysical substrates and measurable predictions, and discuss methodologicaland ethical implications. Appendices contain background, mathematical derivations,and experimental protocols to facilitate replication.

Henry Pierce Stapp

Henry Pierce Stapp

Genius Level Stupid

We propose the Quantum Consciousness Alignment Theory (QCAT) as a speculative framework for understanding the emergence of physical reality through the interaction of past-directed and future-directed quantum waves. Building on the Transactional Interpretation (TI) of quantum mechanics, QCAT extends TI by introducing consciousness as an active participant in the selection of the wave function. We model the interaction of offer waves (probability waves propagating from the past) and confirmation waves (observer-linked waves propagating from the future) within an information-based setting inspired by Wheeler’s It from Bit hypothesis. The transition from virtual to actualized states is described using rotational alignment of wave interactions and virtual photon amplification, culminating in a standing-wave condition for reality emergence. We present a phenomenological mathematical formalism to capture these relationships and outline conceptual and experimental implications.

Tonatiu Campos-García

Classical physical ontology assumes a pre-existing, fully rendered world populated by discrete objects whose properties are fixed independently of observation. Yet, contemporary theories of consciousness, quantum physics, and predictive processing increasingly challenge this assumption, suggesting that perception is an active, constructive, and selective process. This article develops a post-Bohmian rendering ontology, proposing that reality is not a statically instantiated environment but a dynamically updated informational field that becomes determined through acts of attention and measurement. Building on David Bohm’s implicate order (while diverging from its assumption of a continuously enfolded substrate), this framework conceptualizes consciousness as a rendering engine that collapses latent informational potentials into coherent phenomenological form. Three lines of evidence motivate this model: (1) quantum indeterminacy and the observer-dependent collapse of physical states (2) the neurocomputational architecture of predictive coding, in which perception emerges from inferential updates rather than passive registration; and (3) biological diversity in sensory “Umwelten,” which demonstrates that organisms access only narrow, functionally constrained segments of environmental information. The proposed ontology unifies these strands by interpreting consciousness as a localized interface within a distributed informational field, wherein the brain operates as a translator of non-local patterns into stable perceptual constructs. Crucially, the collapse function is operationalized by aligning it with observable mechanisms of global neuronal ignition (GWT) and quantifiable by the Integrated Information Theory (Φ). The framework accounts for altered states of consciousness, decoherence-like failures in psychopathology, and the modular distribution of perceptual rendering across life. It further clarifies the relationship between first-person phenomenology and third-person physical descriptions. By articulating a mechanism that links informational potential, conscious access, and phenomenological instantiation, this post-Bohmian model offers a coherent alternative to substance-based metaphysics and contributes a unified conceptual structure for consciousness studies.