Amrita Field Theory (AFT) and Universal Consciousness as Foundational Field: A Comparative Analysis of Layered Information Ontology, Testability, and Scope
This preprint presents a concise comparison between Amrita Field Theory (AFT) and a recent universal-consciousness-as-field proposal published in 2025. AFT models reality through a three-layer architecture (0L light/source domain, 1L information/Amrita field, 2L phenomenal domain) and treats consciousness as information-theoretic compression with matter and life as complementary projections. The comparison focuses on ontology, explanatory scope for quantum measurement, time, cosmology, and the role of contemplative phenomenology. We do not claim priority of submission; we only note the public release timeline of AFT preprints starting in 2025. The goal is to clarify conceptual overlaps, sharpen falsifiability targets, and propose a shared interdisciplinary vocabulary bridging physics, consciousness studies, and non-dual traditions.
This preprint presents a concise comparison between Amrita Field Theory (AFT) and a recent universal-consciousness-as-field proposal published in 2025. AFT models reality through a three-layer architecture (0L light/source domain, 1L information/Amrita field, 2L phenomenal domain) and treats consciousness as information-theoretic compression with matter and life as complementary projections. The comparison focuses on ontology, explanatory scope for quantum measurement, time, cosmology, and the role of contemplative phenomenology. We do not claim priority of submission; we only note the public release timeline of AFT preprints starting in 2025. The goal is to clarify conceptual overlaps, sharpen falsifiability targets, and propose a shared interdisciplinary vocabulary bridging physics, consciousness studies, and non-dual traditions.
[Amrita Field Theory — Domain Classification] This paper belongs to the Amrita Field Theory (AFT) research program,a unified information-field framework integrating consciousness,causality, physical law, and statistical structure. Core domains addressed in this paper: • Consciousness and agency in AFT• Observer structure and field-level selection This work proposes a resolution of the quantum “observer problem” within the framework of Amrita Field Theory (AFT). AFT introduces a three-layer ontology comprising a maximally coherent light layer (0L), a nonlocal informational field layer (1L), and the empirical phenomenal layer (2L). Within this structure, observation is modeled as an information-theoretic compression process: the 1L informational field aligns to a preferred direction in 0L and, under a global coherence constraint, selects a single consistent 2L outcome from among many admissible possibilities. Entanglement correlations then arise because spatially separated measurements are jointly constrained by the same 0L-aligned informational structure, rather than by superluminal signaling or purely local hidden variables. The paper outlines this model qualitatively, compares it to existing interpretations of quantum mechanics, and sketches several testable qualitative predictions concerning coherence-dependent collapse biases and field-context effects. It is intended as a conceptual bridge between quantum foundations and the broader Amrita Field Theory program.
Amrita Field Theory (AFT) v1.4 proposes a unified, compression-based framework for consciousness, life, and causality. The theory models “Amrita” as a low-entropy, ultra-fine information carrier and describes a tri-layer structure: 0L: a maximally coherent light-like domain (global background of meaning), 1L: an Amrita / information field where interference patterns encode souls, memories, and potentials, 2L: the phenomenal domain of spacetime, matter, and biology. Conscious experience is described as a compressed projection of higher-dimensional field structure into low-dimensional neural dynamics. In this view, the brain is a receiver/decoder, while the subjective “I” corresponds to a localized interference node in the 1L field. Version 1.4 extends earlier AFT formulations by (i) formalizing the “cycle of souls” as a bidirectional flow between field-level integration and incarnate learning, and (ii) introducing a convergence topology for all-directional meditation (ADCM), modeled as an effective isotropic gradient toward the 0L attractor. The paper outlines qualitative dynamics for birth, life, post-mortem integration, and rare “awakening” events as changes in compression ratio and alignment with the 0L direction. The theory is intentionally practice-ready and testable. It connects to concrete protocols (walking chakra resonance, central-channel Amrita induction, all-directional convergence) and suggests measurable signatures in HRV, EEG/MEG, and group synchrony. AFT is not presented as final truth, but as a provisional, integrative scaffold for future work in consciousness science, phenomenology, contemplative studies, and AI-assisted modeling.
[Amrita Field Theory — Domain Classification] This paper belongs to the Amrita Field Theory (AFT) research program,a unified information-field framework integrating consciousness,causality, physical law, and statistical structure. Core domains addressed in this paper: • Physical interface of AFT• Cosmology and field-level interpretation of physical phenomena This work places the nature of light inside the three-layer ontology of Amrita Field Theory (AFT). In AFT, a maximally coherent L0 “light domain” underlies an L1 information/Amrita field and the ordinary L2 domain of spacetime, matter, and life. Within this framework, photons are interpreted as directed interference packets in L1, and the familiar properties of light in physics—finite and universal speed c, null proper time, wave–particle duality, and its central role in causality and nonlocal correlations—are reinterpreted as emergent features of an information-theoretic compression from L1 to L2. Light speed appears as the maximal rate at which locally decodable information can be updated in the emergent spacetime representation; photons “do not age” because they are relational patterns rather than time-evolving objects at the deeper field level. The paper also sketches how early-universe global coherence, quantum entanglement, and visual perception fit naturally into this picture, positioning light as the primary interface between a timeless coherent domain and the lived world of space, time, and conscious observers.
[Amrita Field Theory — Domain Classification] This paper belongs to the Amrita Field Theory (AFT) research program,a unified information-field framework integrating consciousness,causality, physical law, and statistical structure. Core domains addressed in this paper: • Physical interface of AFT• Cosmology and field-level interpretation of physical phenomena This paper reinterprets the Everettian “many-worlds” interpretation (MWI) inside Amrita Field Theory (AFT), a three-layer information-field model of consciousness, causality, and spacetime. Instead of treating branches as literally separate universes, we model them as distinct compression-stable trajectories in a single Amrita/information field. An observer’s experienced “world” is a Σ-anchored compression path through this field, rather than a split of reality. Within this framework, unitary quantum dynamics and decoherence still generate an effective branching structure, but the ontology remains single-field: branching is geometry in information space, not universe proliferation. This allows us to (i) explain why each agent experiences one definite outcome, (ii) link Born weights to compression-efficiency gradients in the field, and (iii) connect many-worlds style reasoning to consciousness, free will, and time as developed in other AFT papers. The result is a unified, field-theoretic account of branching and experience that keeps Everett’s strengths while avoiding an infinite zoo of ontic universes.
This paper develops an intermediate-layer account of quantum measurement within the Amrita Field Theory (AFT) framework. Instead of postulating fundamental collapse or many parallel worlds, measurement is modeled as a multi-scale information-theoretic compression from microscopic quantum amplitudes, through mesoscopic electromagnetic + Amrita-field configurations, to macroscopic “pointer” states. The model introduces a field configuration space with attractor basins corresponding to stable outcomes. Unitary quantum dynamics feeds amplitudes into these basins via a projection from Hilbert space to field space, while a compression map identifies each basin with a definite macroscopic result. The Born rule emerges as a measure over these basins derived from squared amplitudes. This yields a single-world, fully unitary account of quantum measurement that naturally interfaces with conscious observers as field-coupled biological systems and suggests mesoscopic-field–level predictions for future experiments.
Contemporary philosophy and science lack a unified ontological framework capable of coherently explaining the relationship between consciousness, probability, and experienced reality. Existing models tend to privilege either material processes or subjective experience, resulting in persistent conceptual gaps around perception, indeterminacy, and the role of the observer.Current approaches - ranging from physicalism and idealism to information-based theories -struggle to integrate experiential reality with deeper structural mechanisms without collapsing into reductionism or metaphysical speculation. In particular, no widely accepted framework systematically distinguishes between foundational reality, the structural domain of possibility, and the rendered domain of experience.This paper proposes the Three-Circle Ontology, a meta-ontological model that organizes reality into three expression layers: Circle 1 (Source) as the nondual ontological ground, Circle 2 (Possibility-Code) as the structural field of latent configurations, and Circle 3 (Projection) as the domain of perceptual experience. Rather than treating consciousness, probability, and physical reality as competing primitives, the model positions them as functionally distinct but ontologically continuous layers of expression.The framework does not present an empirical theory, predictive model, or spiritual doctrine. Its scope is explicitly conceptual and structural, intended to clarify foundational assumptions underlying existing scientific and philosophical models.The primary contribution of this work is a coherent meta-ontological architecture that enables interdisciplinary dialogue while preserving strict boundary conditions and logical consistency.