Authors : Jay Alfred

Volume/Issue : Volume 11 - 2026, Issue 8 - August

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/26aug160

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Abstract : This paper develops an ontology in which consciousness is fundamental, and materialism is a boundary condition. Elementary particles in matter possess proto‑consciousness comparable to mass, spin, or charge. In this view, consciousness does not arise from matter; matter is a condensed phase of consciousness, and different degrees of consciousness manifest only when quantum coherence is present in isolated (disentangled) particles and condensates. Biological-temperature condensates—polariton, magnon, Fröhlich, and nuclear-spin condensates (Posner molecules)— provide structures capable of sustaining quantum coherence long enough for consciousness to manifest. Quantum-biological findings across avian navigation, photosynthesis, human vision, and mammalian neural modulation demonstrate that coherence can persist in living systems. These results do not imply that consciousness is quantum; rather, quantum processes preserve coherence allowing consciousness to be expressed. Materialism, epiphenomenalism, and panpsychism are reinterpreted as phase-dependent perspectives on a single coherence-modulated cycle in which consciousness condenses into matter and re-emerges through coherent high-frequency states.

Keywords : Alfred, Bohm, Condensate, Consciousness, Decoherence, Epiphenomenalism, Fröhlich, Idealism, Materialism, Panpsychism, Particle‑Waves, Posner Molecules, Quantum Coherence, Superposition, Zeilinger, Zohar

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