Posted on 11/26/2025 7:34:20 AM PST by Red Badger
A physicist has proposed a radical new theory of consciousness – and it could finally explain what happens when you die.
Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria Strømme, a professor of nanotechnology at Uppsala University.
Instead, she claims that it exists as a fundamental field - a 'building block' of the universe.
If this is correct, 'mysterious' phenomena such as telepathy, near–death experiences, and even life after death could finally be explained by science.
According to Professor Strømme's theory, consciousness does not end when we die.
Instead, when a person passes away, their consciousness simply returns to the background field.
Speaking to the Daily Mail, Professor Strømme explained: 'The possibility that consciousness is fundamental has been under–explored. But that is changing rapidly.
'We are reaching a point where asking deeper questions about consciousness is not philosophy on the margins — it is becoming a scientific necessity.'
According to more traditional theories of quantum physics, particles and energy all emerge from vibrations in a fundamental field – like how waves emerge from vibrations in water.
Professor Strømme now claims that this fundamental field might be consciousness itself.
If this is true, there would be radical consequences for our view of reality.
Perhaps most shockingly, if this theory is correct, the separation of our individual consciousness is simply an illusion.
Professor Strømme told the Daily Mail: 'In the model, individual consciousness is understood as a localised excitation or configuration within a universal consciousness field — much like a wave on the surface of an ocean.
'A wave has a form that is temporary, but the water that carries it does not vanish when the wave subsides.'
What's more, the theory suggests that consciousness does not end when we die,... instead, it simply returns to the background field.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
It’s a soul.
Oboy.
Another godless theory. Ok, prove it!
Its certainly not new
Most recently, Carl Jung gave us the theory of the “collective unconscious.”
*burble burble burble pulls another long hit off the bong*
Yeah, I’d like to see the math on that. 🤣
There’s nothing ‘new’ about the idea that mind is not in the brain...
Fritjof Capra wrote a nice book about this back in the ‘70s.
There was a Brit TV movie with a very similar theme. A scientist discovered what happens in the afterlife. When the public found out there were mass suicides in response.
This isn’t new. Quantum computers have been saying this for a little while ever since they started running simulations for the Universe. And it’s basically what the far east religions have taught since forever.
The universe is conscious, and your consciousness is part of it.
lol
Yea, I don’t think there is anything new about this stupidity, heard it long ago. Idiots.
So, we are all part of “The Force”.
Exactly, just repackage sci fi metaphysics.
Zot!
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