Beyond Neural Sufficiency: A Leibniz‑Inspired Field Theory of Consciousness

This paper challenges the prevailing view that consciousness is an emergent product of neural complexity. Drawing on Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’s Monadology, it proposes that a pre‑physical “Superconsciousness field” compresses its informational depth into vibrational templates that manifest as structured excitations in the quantum field. These excitations generate all known particles, which can then assemble into complex biological systems, such as DNA, and into neural architectures, producing the constrained, surface-level awareness familiar to neuroscience. By reversing the standard hierarchy—placing consciousness before matter—the model resolves the hard problem and invites testable predictions that bridge metaphysics, genetics, and physics. This mirrors Chalmers’ (1996) framing of the 'hard problem'—the unresolved question of why physical processes give rise to subjective experience.