A Higher Dimension of Consciousness: Constructing an empirically falsifiable panpsychist model of consciousness
arXiv Preprint Archive April 11, 2022 Jacob Jolij
Panpsychism, the view that consciousness is a fundamental feature of reality rather than a product of brain activity, offers an elegant solution to the mind-body problem but is often dismissed as untestable. This paper presents a panpsychist model that treats consciousness as a higher physical dimension, a speculative idea that nonetheless yields empirically testable predictions. While the model is likely wrong, its main purpose is to demonstrate how metaphysical theories of consciousness can be specified to allow scientific testing, thereby bridging the gap between philosophy and empirical science.