Conservation of Consciousness?

Posted by Simon Raggett on 20 July 2010 | 3 Comments

Tags: consciousness, conservation laws, spacetime, quantum vacuum

Conservation is an important principle in physics. Energy that comprises everything that exists is conserved. It cannot be destroyed but can only be converted from one type of energy into another. This principle of conservation extends to momentum and electrical charge, which are also conserved.

Some modern theories of consciousness suggest that consciousness itself is a fundamental property of the universe measured within or coded into a fundamental spacetime that can also be viewed as being the quantum vacuum, in which the particles or waves that comprise energy are seen as distortions or excitations of that vacuum. The possible proximity or likeness of subjective consciousness to these fundamentals might raise the question as to whether it is also conserved.