Category: Physics

What if reality isn’t the goal of perception, but a side effect of information filtering? Donald Hoffman’s The Case Against Reality suggests our senses evolved to see what helps us survive, not what’s true. I take that one step further. Maybe consciousness itself runs on two levels; a meta layer exploring an informational field, and…

Physicist Vlatko Vedral has argued that we are not solid objects but informational patterns inside the universal quantum wave. Felix Finster’s Causal Fermion Systems go further, showing how spacetime itself may emerge from the relations among these patterns. If that’s true, then consciousness might simply be what it feels like to be one of those…

In my last post, I argued that something is missing in how we describe reality. Physics gives us a machine without experience; psychology gives us experience without matter. To bridge the two, I introduced a scaffold I call CIR²S. Today I want to go into more detail as to why I selected this model. The Five Stages…