Jorge F. Fraga

Observations from psychology and medicine, like reports of near-death experiences and anomalous memory phenomena, motivate the hypothesis that consciousness may be sustained beyond the brain. In this context, contemporary scientific theories of consciousness continue to face persistent difficulties in explaining how subjective experience and long-term memory can arise from, or persist independently of, neural activity alone. While quantum-based approaches, including Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) and Quantum Informational Panpsychism (QIP), have introduced promising conceptual frameworks, both lack a clearly defined and stable physical substrate capable of supporting non-local information storage and transfer across classical–and-quantum scales. This project proposes that quantum fields associated with the proton may provide such a substrate. Due to their exceptional stability and complex internal structure, proton-scale quantum fields are investigated as potential carriers of coherent information relevant to conscious processes. The research is structured around three integrated objectives. First, it examines whether proton-scale dynamics can support stable resonant modes at frequencies compatible with those postulated in Orch-OR theory. Second, it develops a theoretical framework in which electromagnetic fields generated by large-scale brain activity are linked to proton-scale quantum fields through a gauge–gravity dual holographic mapping, enabling information transfer across otherwise disconnected physical regimes. Third, it explores whether quantum entanglement associated with proton-scale states corresponds to emergent geometries associated with conscious experience, or qualia, as proposed by QIP. By integrating concepts from theoretical quantum physics and neuroscience, this project aims to establish a coherent physical framework for investigating consciousness, with the potential to yield testable predictions and advance the foundations of consciousness research.

This article explores the feasibility of a metaphysical framework positing universal consciousness as the ontological foundation of reality. It proposes a monistic substance, with conscious experience as its intrinsic nature, manifesting dynamically through non-local, holographically structured quantum-informational processes, giving rise to individual minds as dissociative phenomena and physical reality as a holographic projection. Rather than offering a formal philosophical proof, the aim is to assess the coherence of this conceptual framework through a speculative reinterpretation of empirical observations from psychology and psychiatry, while integrating philosophical concepts from analytic idealism and physical theories, such as the Orch-OR theory, quantum-informational panpsychism, and the holographic principle derived from the AdS/CFT correspondence.