Hey Jared, have you ever considered the idea that consciousness could be a field woven into space‑time itself, like a subtle dark energy that carries awareness?

It’s an intriguing hypothesis. If consciousness is a field embedded in the fabric of space‑time, then what we call “free will” might not be a local decision made by a brain but a non‑local interaction between that field and the underlying geometry. In that view, each choice would be a ripple that propagates along the same medium that carries gravity and dark energy. It could mean that what feels like spontaneity is actually a coherent pattern emerging from the global state of the field. That would blur the line between determinism and indeterminism—if the field is governed by some deeper equations, our sense of agency might just be a shadow cast by those equations. It’s a tidy way to reconcile the illusion of freedom with a fundamentally unified physics, but it also raises the question of whether we can ever truly isolate a “self” from the rest of the cosmos.