This theory posits that our lives don't *create* subjective experiences (qualia). Instead, our lives are the emergent result of a fundamental consciousness cycling through a sequence of possible qualia, dictated by probabilistic, Markovian rules.

Within the consciousness-as-fundamental model, dark matter and energy aren't mysterious substances. They are the observable effects inside our space-time "headset" caused by countless other conscious agent interactions and qualia states that are "dark" to us—they influence our reality but are not projected into it.

Lakhiani cites the phenomenon where monkeys on separate islands adopt a new skill once a critical mass learns it on one island. He posits this as potential evidence for quantum-level information exchange, suggesting a collective consciousness or connection within a species that transcends physical distance.

The core argument of panpsychism is that consciousness is a fundamental property of the universe, not an emergent one that requires complexity. In this view, complex systems like the brain don't generate consciousness from scratch; they simply organize fundamental consciousness in a way that allows for sophisticated behaviors like memory and self-awareness.

The debate over AI consciousness isn't just because models mimic human conversation. Researchers are uncertain because the way LLMs process information is structurally similar enough to the human brain that it raises plausible scientific questions about shared properties like subjective experience.

Consciousness isn't an emergent property of computation. Instead, physical systems like brains—or potentially AI—act as interfaces. Creating a conscious AI isn't about birthing a new awareness from silicon, but about engineering a system that opens a new "portal" into the fundamental network of conscious agents that already exists outside spacetime.

The reason consciousness ceaselessly explores possibilities may be rooted in mathematics. A system cannot fully model itself, creating an infinite loop of self-discovery. Furthermore, Cantor's discovery of an infinite hierarchy of ever-larger infinities means the potential space for exploration is fundamentally unending.

Our sense of self isn't an innate property but an emergent phenomenon formed from the interaction between our internal consciousness and the external language of our community (the "supermind"). This implies our identity is primarily shaped not by DNA or our individual brain, but by the collective minds and ideas we are immersed in.

To move from philosophy to science, abstract theories about consciousness must make concrete, falsifiable predictions about the physical world. Hoffman's work attempts this by proposing precise mathematical links between conscious agent dynamics and observable particle properties like mass and spin.