{"id":226252,"date":"2025-12-01T20:05:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-theory-proposes-that-consciousness-is-the-universes-foundation-not-atoms"},"modified":"2025-12-01T20:05:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T02:05:36","slug":"new-theory-proposes-that-consciousness-is-the-universes-foundation-not-atoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/new-theory-proposes-that-consciousness-is-the-universes-foundation-not-atoms","title":{"rendered":"New theory proposes that consciousness is the universe\u2019s foundation, not atoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-theory-proposes-that-consciousness-is-the-universes-foundation-not-atoms.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maria Str\u00f8mme, a materials science professor at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uu.se\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" cmp-ltrk=\"Article - Text\" cmp-ltrk-idx=\"1\" mrfobservableid=\"80386697-6252-4eaf-a395-62a485ebacd1\">Uppsala University<\/a>, outlines a new theoretical model in <em>AIP Advances<\/em> that begins with a central claim: consciousness is fundamental field, and time, space, and matter develop from it.<\/p>\n<p>Her paper treats conscious experience not as a late add-on, but as the basic \u201cstuff\u201d that reality is made of. In that picture, your brain, your body, and even space and time grow out of a deeper kind of \u201cmind\u201d that fills the whole universe.<\/p>\n<p>Most neuroscientists still ask, \u201cHow does the brain produce consciousness?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Str\u00f8mme, a materials science professor at Uppsala University, outlines a new theoretical model in AIP Advances that begins with a central claim: consciousness is fundamental field, and time, space, and matter develop from it. Her paper treats conscious experience not as a late add-on, but as the basic \u201cstuff\u201d that reality is made of. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}