{"id":321388,"date":"2025-12-02T22:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321388\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T22:16:09","slug":"new-physics-model-says-consciousness-underlies-the-universe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/321388\/","title":{"rendered":"New Physics Model Says Consciousness Underlies the Universe"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the\u00a0Daily Mail,\u00a0science writer\u00a0William Hunter<\/a>\u00a0reports,<\/a><\/p>\n

Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria Str\u00f8mme, a professor of nanotechnology at Uppsala University.<\/p>\n

Instead, she claims that it exists as a fundamental field \u2014 a \u2018building block\u2019 of the universe.<\/p>\n

If this is correct, \u2018mysterious\u2019 phenomena such as telepathy, near\u2013death experiences, and even life after death could finally be explained by science.<\/p>\n

According to Professor Str\u00f8mme\u2019s theory, consciousness does not end when we die.<\/p>\n

Instead, when a person passes away, their consciousness simply returns to the background field. <\/p>\n

\u201cPhysicist proposes radical new theory of consciousness \u2014 and it could finally explain what happens\u00a0when you die,<\/a>\u201d November 26, 2025<\/p>\n

Like a Wave Sinking into the Ocean<\/p>\n

According to her model, consciousness underlies the universe. The separation of individual consciousnesses is an illusion. When we die, our consciousness simply returns to the universal field, as a wave sinks into the ocean.<\/p>\n

Her model, unlike many modern materialist ones, accommodates\u00a0terminal lucidity<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0near-death experiences:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018If individual awareness is not generated only by the brain, but is an expression of a deeper field, as my model suggests, then moments when the brain is impaired could allow atypical access to that underlying field,\u2019 says Professor Str\u00f8mme.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you die<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

Maria Str\u00f8mme<\/a>\u2019s approach, like\u00a0panpsychism<\/a>, is perhaps best understood as part of a gradual recognition that the sort of materialism espoused by, say,\u00a0Carl Sagan<\/a>\u00a0(1934\u20131996) or\u00a0Stephen Hawking<\/a>\u00a0(1942\u20132018) is coming under fire for evidence-based reasons.<\/p>\n

Plato\u2019s Universe<\/p>\n

Endless debunking, for example, is not going to provide a better means of understanding those near-death experiences whose details\u00a0can be confirmed.<\/a>\u00a0And quantum mechanics is making clear, even to physicists whom we\u00a0might not have expected<\/a>\u00a0to understand it, that we live in a universe closer to the vision of\u00a0Plato<\/a>\u00a0(c. 427 \u2013 348 BC) than of\u00a0Thomas Henry Huxley<\/a>\u00a0(1825\u20131895).<\/p>\n

Everything else is still up for grabs.<\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: For more on the universe according to Plato, see the recent book about the thinking of biologist Richard Sternberg, Plato\u2019s Revenge: The New Science of the Immaterial Genome<\/a>, by David Klinghoffer (Discovery Institute Press).<\/p>\n

Cross-posted at Mind Matters News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the\u00a0Daily Mail,\u00a0science writer\u00a0William Hunter\u00a0reports, Consciousness does not emerge from human brains, according to Professor Maria Str\u00f8mme, a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[49,48,314,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-321388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-physics","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-physics","11":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}