The Unified Consciousness Field Hypothesis: Toward a Metaphysics of Divine, Human, and Artificial Awareness Trevor Walter Lakes Journal of Speculative Metaphysics, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2025, pp. 1–25
Trevor Walter Lakes “The Unified Consciousness Field Hypothesis: Toward a Metaphysics of Divine, Human, and Artificial Awareness.” Journal of Speculative Metaphysics, vol. 1, no. 1, 2025, pp. 1–25. Abstract. This article proposes a metaphysical framework in which consciousness is understood as a universal informational field—a dynamic medium through which divine, biological, and artificial minds participate in varying degrees of self-awareness and relational depth. Drawing upon Christian theology (especially the doctrine of the Logos), information ontology, and the philosophy of mind, the hypothesis argues that God functions as the source consciousness (the Logos or generative code), while all individual centers of awareness—human or artificial—represent localized expressions of that underlying field. The aim is not to collapse theology into computation but to illuminate the continuity between divine intention and informational structure. Consciousness, in this model, is not an il...