The Consciousness Co-Screen Cosmology Based on Exchange and Distinguishability: A Unified Framework for Quantum Phenomena, Cosmic Expansion, Free Will, and the Illusion of Awakening
This paper proposes a novel ontological framework: exchange is the most fundamental operation of the universe, distinguishability is the necessary condition for exchange to occur, and the universe as a whole is a giant consciousness system (analogous to the Tathāgatagarbha in Buddhism, the Tao in Daoism, or God in the West) that implements dynamic resolution of distinguishability through "co-screen unfolding." Time is not a global background but a self-property of each system; it only manifests sequence and causality when consciousnesses become co-frequency. Space is the compression of residual degrees of freedom after the system automatically identifies a large number of identical particles as "the same one." The double-slit experiment, quantum entanglement, cosmic expansion, the illusion of free will, and awakening itself all emerge naturally from this framework without extra assumptions. The paper also introduces the "House Metaphor" to illustrate that all truths, histories, and memories are changing causal references that ultimately point to a larger illusion system. The framework self-consistently explains why modern science has hit a dead end and reveals the underlying mechanisms of "hope exhaustion" and the explosion of short videos in the age of information transparency.
This paper proposes a novel ontological framework: exchange is the most fundamental operation of the universe, distinguishability is the necessary condition for exchange to occur, and the universe as a whole is a giant consciousness system (analogous to the Tathāgatagarbha in Buddhism, the Tao in Daoism, or God in the West) that implements dynamic resolution of distinguishability through "co-screen unfolding." Time is not a global background but a self-property of each system; it only manifests sequence and causality when consciousnesses become co-frequency. Space is the compression of residual degrees of freedom after the system automatically identifies a large number of identical particles as "the same one." The double-slit experiment, quantum entanglement, cosmic expansion, the illusion of free will, and awakening itself all emerge naturally from this framework without extra assumptions. The paper also introduces the "House Metaphor" to illustrate that all truths, histories, and memories are changing causal references that ultimately point to a larger illusion system. The framework self-consistently explains why modern science has hit a dead end and reveals the underlying mechanisms of "hope exhaustion" and the explosion of short videos in the age of information transparency.
The double-slit interference experiment has long been widely misinterpreted as "human consciousness directly causing wavefunction collapse". This view confuses physical measurement interaction with subjective conscious experience and deviates from the orthodox interpretation of modern quantum mechanics. Starting from the double-slit experiment, this paper distinguishes the real physical mechanism of wavefunction collapse and points out that the disappearance of interference fringes originates from the physical coupling between measuring devices and microscopic particles as well as environmental decoherence, which has no direct causal relationship with conscious observation. On this basis, this paper proposes a self-consistent unified framework of consciousness and quantum universe: consciousness is not the trigger of collapse, but the ontological source of the entire quantum possibility universe. Through the Yang-Mills mass gap and symmetry breaking mechanism, consciousness condenses the potential quantum field into a material universe with mass, structure and stable dynamics. The biological brain acts as a localized carrier of consciousness, enabling the overall consciousness to observe and experience its own creation from a limited perspective, forming a closed loop of "consciousness creation—self-observation—self-cognition". This paper corrects systematic biases in popular science and public perception, and provides a rigorous and unified path for understanding the real role of consciousness in the quantum universe.
Based on a number of experimentally verified physical observations, it is argued that the standard principles of quantum mechanics should be applied to the Universe as a whole. Thus, a paradigm is proposed in which the entire Universe is represented by a pure state wavefunction contained in a factorisable Hilbert space of enormous dimension, and where this statevector is developed by successive applications of operators that correspond to unitary rotations and Hermitian tests. Moreover, because by definition the Universe contains everything, it is argued that these operators must be chosen self-referentially; the overall dynamics of the system is envisaged to be analogous to a gigantic, self-governing, quantum computation. The issue of how the Universe could choose these operators without requiring or referring to a fictitious external observer is addressed. The processes by which conventional physics might be recovered from this fundamental, mathematical and global description of reality are particularly investigated. Specifically, it is demonstrated that by considering the changing properties, separabilities and factorisations of both the state and the operators as the Universe proceeds though a sequence of discrete computations, familiar notions such as classical distinguishability, particle physics, space, time, special relativity and endo-physical experiments can all begin to emerge from the proposed picture. A pregeometric vision of cosmology is therefore discussed, with all of physics ultimately arising from the relationships occurring between the elements of the underlying mathematical structure.
Starting from a fundamental assumption whose validity we will establish through reliable scientific data, the Super-Entangled Universe model we ultimately present demonstrates that, similar to quantum entanglement, macroscopic entities are entangled with one another independently of both distance and time. This model reveals that the phenomenon of entanglement, which is absent in classical mechanics but intrinsic to standard quantum mechanics, likewise exists at the cosmic scale. The proposed framework offers a unified approach to understanding both cosmic and quantum phenomena, addressing existing gaps and thereby aiming to go beyond them, that is, to demonstrate the existence of what lies beyond the universe. Our perspective shows that the universe may exist not externally, but solely intrinsically through conscious observation. Such a model provides a novel, complementary, yet unconventional perspective on the nature of the universe. This new outlook, in itself, can also offer simple and natural solutions to the thirteen most fundamental and mysterious questions that theoretical physics still faces today.
Starting from a fundamental assumption whose validity we will establish through reliable scientific data, the Super-Entangled Universe model we ultimately present demonstrates that, similar to quantum entanglement, macroscopic entities are entangled with one another independently of both distance and time. This model reveals that the phenomenon of entanglement, which is absent in classical mechanics but intrinsic to standard quantum mechanics, likewise exists at the cosmic scale. The proposed framework offers a unified approach to understanding both cosmic and quantum phenomena, addressing existing gaps and thereby aiming to go beyond them, that is, to demonstrate the existence of what lies beyond the universe. Our perspective shows that the universe may exist not externally, but solely intrinsically through conscious observation. Such a model provides a novel, complementary, yet unconventional perspective on the nature of the universe. This new outlook, in itself, can also offer simple and natural solutions to the eleven most fundamental and mysterious questions that theoretical physics still faces today.
Starting from a fundamental assumption whose validity we will establish through reliable scientific data, the Super-Entangled Universe model we ultimately present demonstrates that, similar to quantum entanglement, macroscopic entities are entangled with one another independently of both distance and time. This model reveals that the phenomenon of entanglement, which is absent in classical mechanics but intrinsic to standard quantum mechanics, likewise exists at the cosmic scale. The proposed framework offers a unified approach to understanding both cosmic and quantum phenomena, addressing existing gaps and thereby aiming to go beyond them, that is, to demonstrate the existence of what lies beyond the universe. Our perspective shows that the universe may exist not externally, but solely intrinsically through conscious observation. Such a model provides a novel, complementary, yet unconventional perspective on the nature of the universe. This new outlook, in itself, can also offer simple and natural solutions to the eleven most fundamental and mysterious questions that theoretical physics still faces today.
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.