The Permanence of the Consciousness Field：An Argument for

The Permanence of the Consciousness Field: An Argument for the Immortality of Consciousness Based on DIKWP Model Information-Energy Transformation

Yucong Duan

International Standardization Committee of Networked DIKWPfor Artificial Intelligence Evaluation(DIKWP-SC)

World Artificial Consciousness CIC(WAC)

World Conference on Artificial Consciousness(WCAC)

(Email: duanyucong@hotmail.com)

Abstract

Einstein once pointed out, "Energy cannot be created or destroyed," and based on this, he proposed a thought-provoking viewpoint: After the body perishes, consciousness, as an information field, does not annihilate along with it. This report revolves around this proposition, combining the DIKWP model proposed by Professor Yucong Duan and the "information field-energy field" dual-dimensional structure coupling theory, to systematically argue aspects such as the biological cognitive loop, the construction of cross-individual information graphs, the physical possibility and philosophical significance of consciousness persistence. First, we explain how the biological cognitive structure achieves a complete closed loop from objective data to subjective purpose through the DIKWP (Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom-Purpose) model, and maintains the dynamic co-creation of the information field and the energy field in this process. Second, we detail how organisms continuously construct and output information fields through perception, cognition, and expression during life activities, enabling information interaction between individuals to form a cross-individual information graph. Third, we delve into why the information field might continue to exist without relying on a material carrier when the body perishes, including the principle of information conservation and the possibility of information existing in a non-local form, and cite cutting-edge ideas such as quantum field theory, holographic field theory, and the cosmic computation framework to support the argument. Fourth, we cite and analyze Einstein's relevant remarks on energy conservation and the continuation of the consciousness field and their physics background, integrating the "It from Bit" idea of "information physics" to construct a cross-disciplinary argumentation framework. Fifth, we compare the mainstream neuroscience views on the origin and termination of consciousness with the DIKWP-information field model, pointing out the shortcomings of traditional neural reductionism in explaining the subjectivity and continuity of consciousness. Sixth, we discuss how related theories (such as David Bohm's holographic implicate order theory, Penrose-Hameroff's quantum consciousness model) reveal the supra-physical potential of the information field. Seventh, we respond to the philosophical questions of self-consciousness, the flow of subjective experience, and the continuity of meaning, proposing a rational explanation for the immortality of consciousness in the information dimension. Finally, we construct a "Information Field Permanence Model" (or "DIKWP-Information Conservation Model") and propose deduction mechanisms and model diagrams that can be tested by future empirical research, providing new ideas for interdisciplinary exploration of the nature and fate of consciousness. Overall, this report strives to prove and deepen the challenging proposition that "the body passes away, but consciousness endures" with a comprehensive theoretical review, rigorous reasoning details, and rich examples.

Keywords: Einstein; Immortality of Consciousness; Information Field; Energy Field; DIKWP Model; Information Conservation; Holographic Theory; Quantum Consciousness

1. Introduction

The relationship between death and consciousness is an eternal and profound question in science and philosophy: when the human body's life ends, does consciousness, as the carrier of the "self," extinguish along with it? Albert Einstein, the great physicist of the 20th century, left a meaningful assertion when pondering the question of life and death: "Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." This remark reveals Einstein's open-mindedness towards death based on his physics worldview: if time is essentially a unified four-dimensional illusion, then his close friend's "departure" does not represent the end of his existence—in the coordinate system of four-dimensional spacetime, every moment of life still "exists" authentically. This "Block Universe" view derived from relativity reflects such a possibility: even if an organism stops its life activities, consciousness, as an informational existence, its "traces" are not erased from the universe.

However, traditionally, mainstream science has been skeptical or even negative about this possibility. Neuroscience and biology usually regard consciousness as a product of the activities of neural structures such as the brain, believing that when the brain dies, consciousness will also cease to exist. For example, Einstein himself repeatedly expressed his disbelief in personal life after death in public: "I do not believe that the individual survives his death... Let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egotism, cherish such thoughts." This reflects the rational rejection of concepts like "immortality of the soul" by the scientific elite of the 20th century. However, human experience with life and modern interdisciplinary research constantly remind us that reality may be richer than strict material reductionism suggests. In recent decades of consciousness research, many different theoretical frameworks and experimental findings have emerged: some theories suggest that consciousness may involve quantum processes, possessing characteristics beyond classical physics; some physical principles (such as the holographic principle) imply that information may be a more fundamental existence than matter and energy, and remains conserved even under extreme conditions (like in a black hole); there are also controversial clinical reports suggesting that subjective conscious experiences can still occur during severe brain injury or near-death, challenging our traditional understanding of the brain-consciousness relationship.

Against this backdrop, the DIKWP model and the "information field-energy field" dual-domain structure theory proposed by Professor Yucong Duan provide a unique perspective for re-examining this issue. The DIKWP model was initially intended to describe cognitive processes in artificial intelligence and medicine. It extends the classic DIKW (pyramid) model upwards, adding the highest-level "Purpose" dimension, thus forming a complete "Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom-Purpose" five-layer cognitive chain. Based on this model, Yucong Duan further views the human body as a composite system coupled by an information field and an energy field. He advocates that the essence of life phenomena such as health and consciousness needs to be understood simultaneously from the information level (e.g., the semantic information space composed of genes, neural signals, psychological cognition, social interactions) and the energy level (e.g., the energy dynamics embodied in metabolic energy, brainwaves, bio-electromagnetic fields). This theoretical framework is not only used in medicine to interpret proactive health management (i.e., prevention through information and energy regulation before diseases manifestly occur) but also provides new ideas for exploring the formation and continuation of consciousness: if the information field has an independent and important status in life activities, then when the energy flow (physiological process) stops, is it possible for the information field to exist independently or even maintain operation in some way?

This report aims to conduct a comprehensive academic discussion on the above issues. We will demonstrate the rationality of the proposition "consciousness does not perish after the body perishes" from multiple perspectives and examine it in the context of contemporary science and philosophy. The report will be structured as follows:

Theoretical Review: Introduce the core content of the DIKWP model and the information field-energy field theory, analyze how the biological cognitive loop is formed, and outline the mainstream neuroscience views on the nature and termination of consciousness, as well as other cutting-edge theories related to consciousness (such as quantum consciousness, holographic universe view).

Model and Reasoning: Based on the DIKWP model, elaborate on the construction of the organism's information field and cross-individual information interaction; focus on deducing how the information field might continue to exist at the end of life, including theoretical arguments such as information conservation and non-local persistence, and conduct cross-disciplinary argumentation combining Einstein's physics view and information physics concepts.

Philosophical Discussion: Discuss the philosophical significance of the theory of consciousness immortality, respond to questions about self-identity, the continuity of the subjective experience stream, and the meaning of life, while reflecting on the shortcomings of traditional neural reductionism.

Future Prospects: Propose a conceptual model for the permanence of the information field, envision research plans or experimental ideas to verify this model, and discuss the potential impact of this model on future scientific research and human cognition.

Through the above content, we hope to prove that, as modern science deepens its understanding of the relationship between information, energy, and consciousness, the seemingly advanced viewpoint that "physical death does not equal the absolute termination of subjective consciousness" is gaining more and more empirical and theoretical support. Below, we first enter the theoretical review part to lay the foundation for subsequent reasoning.

2. Theoretical Review

In this section, we will review the theoretical foundations related to the proposition of this research, covering three aspects: (1) The DIKWP model proposed by Professor Yucong Duan and his "information field-energy field" co-creation theory; (2) Mainstream neuroscience views on the origin and termination of consciousness; (3) Several cutting-edge theories related to consciousness and information fields, including David Bohm's holographic universe theory and the Penrose-Hameroff quantum consciousness model. These theories form the multidisciplinary background for our argument that the consciousness information field may persist after bodily death.

2.1 DIKWP Model and Information Field-Energy Field Co-creation Theory

The DIKWP model is a semantic model developed by Professor Yucong Duan and others to describe cognitive and consciousness processes. Its name is taken from five levels: Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom, and Purpose. This model can be seen as an extended version of the classic DIKW (pyramid) model: the traditional DIKW presents a pyramid-style, one-way promotion from "Data → Information → Knowledge → Wisdom," while DIKWP adds a "Purpose" layer above "Wisdom" and emphasizes that the layers do not have a simple linear relationship, but a networked interactive structure. In other words, DIKWP emphasizes that there is always a clear goal orientation in the refinement process from data to wisdom, driven by "Purpose" to direct the flow of the entire cognitive process. This design reflects the proactiveness of intelligent agents (whether human or AI) in processing information: not only passively receiving and processing data, but also top-down, using goals (purposes) to select focus points and guide the allocation of cognitive resources. The DIKWP model provides a complete semantic loop for analyzing complex systems (such as healthcare, artificial intelligence decision-making), enabling us to trace the entire process from perception to decision-making.

The Information Field and Energy Field model is another key concept proposed by Yucong Duan to interpret the multi-dimensional attributes of living systems. He pointed out: "The human body is not just a collection of matter, but a composite system of a dynamic information field and energy field." This viewpoint breaks through the limitation of traditional medicine that only focuses on the physiological material basis, placing the human body in a multi-dimensional whole including matter, information, and energy, emphasizing the interconnection and interaction between the elements. Under this framework:

The Information Field refers to the collection of all information related to health and consciousness inside and outside the human body, i.e., a vast holographic semantic space. Its coverage is extremely wide, from microscopic genetic expression, biochemical indicators, neural electrical signals, to macroscopic psychological states, cognitive content, and even social interaction cues, all are part of the information field. In short, the information field reflects the "software" or "content" level of the living body; it is composed of various data and symbolized patterns, carrying meaning and context. Health or disease in the information field manifests as the normal or abnormal patterns of information flow, presenting as a state of disorder or coordination in a complex semantic network. The information field has holographic properties and multi-level complexity: on the one hand, each piece of local information (such as a physiological indicator) often reflects the overall state (similar to the principle in Traditional Chinese Medicine's "observation, listening, questioning, and pulse-taking" where tongue coating and pulse map the whole body); on the other hand, information at different levels is intertwined (e.g., physiological data interacts with psychological emotions, social environment information), forming a comprehensive picture that is difficult to describe with a single indicator.

The Energy Field refers to the flow and distribution of various forms of energy around the living body, including internal metabolic energy, bioelectricity, biomagnetism, and the energy exchange between the body and the external environment. It corresponds to the "hardware" or "dynamic" level of the living body and is the direct source of power for maintaining life activities. The core of the energy field lies in dynamic balance and free flow. A healthy state can be regarded as the free and balanced flow and distribution of energy among various systems—for example, smooth blood circulation, orderly neural electrical signals, moderate endocrine secretion—all of which correspond to the smooth flow of "Qi" and the "harmony of Yin and Yang" in TCM or Eastern philosophy, i.e., the "Dao" of harmonious coexistence with nature. The concept of the energy field also implies energy conservation and transformation: living bodies take in energy from the outside world through metabolism, and then transform and utilize it through various physiological mechanisms. Although the total amount of energy is conserved, it is constantly transformed between different forms to maintain the body's homeostasis. As Einstein's mass-energy equivalence and the law of energy conservation show, energy does not disappear out of thin air, it only changes from one form to another. Yucong Duan borrows this physics concept to point out that a healthy energy field should be open and flowing, where energy can be freely transformed, does not stagnate anywhere, and is not dissipated in vain.

In Yucong Duan's theory, the Information Field and the Energy Field are not separate, but are closely coupled and in two-way co-creation. Specifically, he proposed the views of "dual-wheel drive" and "interactive regulation": on the one hand, changes in the information field will affect the state of the energy field through neuro-endocrine pathways; on the other hand, changes in the energy field will also affect the data and patterns of the information field through physiological feedback. For example:

When an individual suffers from chronic stress or has an unhealthy lifestyle, the information field will be filled with a large number of negative signals (such as persistently high blood pressure, abnormal data like stress hormone levels). This abnormal information, in turn, hinders the free flow of the energy field, possibly leading to excessive accumulation or rapid dissipation of energy in certain organs, causing an imbalance in the energy field. Persistent psychological stress can, through neuro-endocrine pathways, cause excessive energy consumption and decreased immune function—the "psychological stress" in information is ultimately transformed into "consumption dysregulation" in energy, reflecting the influence of information on energy.

Conversely, changes in the energy field will also act back on the information field as feedback. For example, when the energy field is maintained in a stable and free-flowing "positive energy" state, the body's immunity is enhanced, emotions are stable, and cognitive functions are improved; various positive physiological and psychological reactions follow. These changes will be reflected in the data of the information field and captured by sensors or detection indicators (such as an increase in immune cell counts, brainwaves tending to normal, etc.), and then serve as new information input to guide the next health management decision. If the energy field is disordered or even fails (such as extreme fatigue, organ failure), the corresponding information field indicators will drastically deteriorate or even terminate (such as a flat EEG, cessation of heartbeat and breathing), reflecting the rupture of the information-energy coupling.

Through the DIKWP model, this interaction between information and energy can be understood more systematically. The DIKWP model, in fact, acts as the "translator" and "connecting bridge" between the information field and the energy field. The Data (D) and Information (I) layers mainly carry the representation of the energy state: various measurement data record the real-time changes of the energy field, for example, EEG data reflects brain energy metabolism, blood sugar and blood pressure data reflect metabolic energy supply and demand; after this data is organized into information, patterns of energy imbalance can be identified (e.g., persistent high blood pressure shows sympathetic nervous system excitement, excessive energy aggregation in the cardiovascular system). Next, the Knowledge (K) and Wisdom (W) layers enable us to associate this information with medical theories, find the deep-seated reasons for the disorder, and based on this, decide how to regulate the energy field (e.g., giving rest, meditation, relaxation, or drug treatment). Finally, the Purpose (P) layer sets clear goals (e.g., "restore energy balance" or "lower blood pressure to normal"), guides the implementation of a series of interventions, and sees if the goals are achieved through feedback. In this way, a two-way closed loop of information field → energy field → feedback to information field is established, and the dynamic balance of individual health is maintained through the simultaneous regulation of information and energy. Professor Yucong Duan regards this dual-dimensional co-creation based on DIKWP as the fundamental principle of Proactive Medicine, believing that "human health is essentially the embodiment of the dynamic balance between information and energy."

It needs to be particularly pointed out that Yucong Duan's concept of the information field is not limited to within the individual; he explicitly includes psychological states and social interactions into the "internal context" of the human body. This means that a person's information field is largely influenced by the information exchange with others and the environment. For example, language communication, emotional contagion, and the transmission of cultural beliefs all cause the information fields of different individuals to blend and influence each other. This view coincides with certain ideas in contemporary cognitive science, such as the Extended Mind theory, which believes that human cognition can be extended to the world outside the individual's skin through tools and other people. Therefore, we have reason to speculate: when Yucong Duan talks about cross-individual "social interaction" information, he is, in fact, acknowledging that the information field has the property of cross-individual transmission and superposition. Each living individual is not only a carrier of their own information field, but also outputs their information field to the outside world through communication, behavior, etc. These outputs are received by other individuals and integrated into their information fields, thus forming group or global information graphs on a larger scale. This point is inspiring for our discussion on "the cross-individual continuation of the consciousness information field," which we will elaborate on in the Model and Reasoning section.

In summary, the DIKWP model and the information field-energy field theory provide a panoramic view for understanding life and consciousness: during the life process, the cognitive loop composed of data, information, knowledge, wisdom, and purpose is constantly running; at the same time, the two dimensions of the information field and the energy field are closely intertwined and influence each other, enabling the body to maintain function and health. What role does consciousness play in this framework? Yucong Duan's theory itself focuses on the field of health, but some of the content mentioned has already touched on consciousness research. For example, he cites modern cognitive science theories, pointing out: "The reason why the brain produces subjective consciousness is because it integrates scattered information into a whole information field"—this actually corresponds to the neuroscientist G. Tononi's Integrated Information Theory (IIT), which believes that the essence of consciousness is a system's ability to integrate information, measured by the amount of integrated information  Φ . Yucong Duan uses this to emphasize that the importance proactive medicine places on the information field echoes this theory: studying the generation, processing, and integration of information is expected to reveal the association mechanism between consciousness and health. From this, it can be seen that in Yucong Duan's framework, consciousness is regarded as a state where the information field is highly integrated, endowed with meaning and purpose, and constitutes the human state of existence in complementarity with physiological energy processes.

In conclusion, the DIKWP model and the information-energy field theory suggest to us: Consciousness can be understood as a special phenomenon in the information field, the embodiment of the integration of high-level semantic information and Purpose-driven, and the information field, although related to material energy, has its relative independence and holographic nature. If this understanding is established, then when the material carrier (body, energy field) changes or even perishes, does the information field necessarily disintegrate completely along with it, or can it remain or be transformed in some way? This question is precisely the focus we will explore next. But before that, let's briefly describe the views of mainstream neuroscience and other cutting-edge theories on the issue of consciousness, as a comparison and supplement.

2.2 Mainstream Neuroscience Views on the Origin and Termination of Consciousness

Neuroscience has made great progress in revealing the biological basis of consciousness since the 20th century. The general consensus is: conscious states are closely related to specific physiological activities of the brain, especially the complex electrical activities of structures such as the cerebral cortex and thalamus, which are regarded as necessary conditions for generating conscious experience. When brain neurons are excited in a certain synchronized pattern and information from different brain regions converges to a global network, the individual reports having a clear subjective experience; conversely, when this global coordination is interrupted (such as during deep anesthesia or near brain death), subjective consciousness will also disappear or become blurred. This view can be summarized as the reductionist view that "consciousness originates from neural activity," often describing the brain as computer hardware, and consciousness as the software it runs or the "information output" it produces. Below we summarize several key points in the mainstream framework:

Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC): A large amount of research is dedicated to finding the minimal brain activity patterns that directly cause specific conscious experiences, the so-called "Neural Correlates of Consciousness." For example, through techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG), people have found that when one is awake and conscious, high-frequency oscillations (such as  γ  waves) in the cerebral cortex and extensive functional connectivity between brain regions are crucial; while in an unconscious or comatose state, these indicators are significantly reduced or fragmented. This supports the "Global Workspace Theory" (GWT): the brain has a global workspace similar to a blackboard, and information processed by different modules must be broadcast here to enter conscious processing. When information cannot rise to the global workspace, consciousness will not be generated. This model compares consciousness to an information field within the brain: when certain information is successfully written onto the "blackboard" (global field), it becomes a part of consciousness, otherwise it only stays in unconscious processing.

Conditions for the Termination of Consciousness: Medically, brain death is usually regarded as the sign of the irreversible termination of life and consciousness. Brain death refers to the irreversible cessation of function of the entire brain (including the brainstem); at this time, the patient has no spontaneous breathing, is in a coma with no reflexes, and EEG activity disappears. Clinical experience shows that once the criteria for brain death are met, even if heartbeat and circulation are maintained, the patient no longer has any signs of consciousness. This is widely interpreted as: consciousness completely depends on orderly neural electrical activity; when neuron metabolism and electrical activity completely stop (the energy field collapses), the information field of consciousness disintegrates immediately. This is as direct as a computer program terminating immediately after the power is cut off. Neuroscientists who hold this view usually believe that if the brain does not work, the mind does not exist, and there is no consciousness operating independently outside the brain.

Skepticism about "Post-Mortem Consciousness" Phenomena: Faced with the possibility of "ghosts" or "post-mortem consciousness" proposed by a few scholars or the public based on energy conservation, the scientific community is mostly negative. For example, there are rumors that Einstein's law of energy conservation can prove the existence of ghosts, because if energy is indestructible, then after a person dies, their energy should be transformed into the form of a ghost. In response, scientists explain: the energy of the human body does not disappear into thin air after death, but returns to nature—absorbed by decomposers, dissipated as heat, etc. That is to say, energy conservation is manifested in the decomposition and dissemination of the body's matter, not in supporting a disembodied ghost to continue its activities. Similarly, for near-death experiences (NDEs) that report "conscious journeys out of the body," many neuroscientists tend to believe that these are hallucinations or memory illusions caused by brain hypoxia and abnormal neural discharges, not consciousness truly existing independently outside the body. For example, famous skeptics like Susan Blackmore point out that NDE phenomena such as tunnel vision and the feeling of out-of-body experiences can all be explained by abnormal activities in the visual and somatosensory cortices at the time of near-death, without needing to assume that a conscious spirit truly detached from the brain.

Shortcomings of Traditional Reductionism: Although the mainstream view denies the continuation of consciousness after bodily death, it must be admitted that the question of the nature of consciousness is far from solved. The philosopher David Chalmers calls this the "Hard Problem" of consciousness, i.e., we still cannot understand why and how brain activity produces subjective experience ("Why aren't all neural processes unconscious?"). In addition, simple neural reductionism also encounters difficulties in explaining subjective unity and self-continuity: how does a person's experience condense into a single feeling of "me at this moment" at a specific time, rather than being scattered and separate? How does an individual's self-consciousness maintain continuity in a brain that is constantly metabolizing? These questions are difficult to answer just by examining neuron firing frequencies and connection patterns, because they touch on categories like meaning and subjectivity. Precisely because of this, some scientists have begun to explore new theories that transcend the traditional framework, trying to introduce concepts such as "information," "quantum processes," or even "cosmic consciousness" to supplement the explanation of consciousness phenomena.

In summary, mainstream neuroscience currently still firmly anchors consciousness to the physical brain, believing that consciousness disappears with the demise of bodily functions. This view is based on a large amount of experience and experiments and is the mainstream belief of the scientific community. However, its theoretical explanatory power also has limitations, which has led to the birth of various unconventional theories. The next subsection will briefly introduce two theories that are highly relevant to the proposition of this report: Holographic Universe Theory and Quantum Consciousness Theory; they provide support from different perspectives for understanding that "the information field of consciousness may transcend the body's existence."

2.3 Cutting-Edge Theories Related to Consciousness: Holographic Universe and Quantum Consciousness

(1) Holographic Field Theory (David Bohm's Implicate Order Theory): The 20th-century physicist David Bohm proposed the famous "Implicate Order" theory to explain strange phenomena in quantum theory such as non-local correlations of particles. Bohm believed that the "Explicate Order" we see in daily life is just the unfolded surface reality; at a deeper level, the entire universe is an indivisible whole, and each part somehow enfolds a mapping of the whole—this is the "Implicate Order." He used a hologram as an analogy: each small fragment of a holographic photo contains the information of the entire image, just with reduced clarity. Similarly, the universe's implicate order is like a huge holographic information field; each subsystem implicitly contains global information. Bohm pointed out that the fluctuations of the light field and various quantum fields cause the information of the entire universe to be continuously enfolded and unfolded everywhere, thus forming the spacetime and myriad things we observe. He called this all-encompassing flow the "holomovement," believing it to be the fundamental background of all material and conscious phenomena.

In the development of Bohm's collaboration with the neuroscientist Karl Pribram, this idea was applied to brain research, forming the "Holonomic Brain Theory." According to this model, the brain processes information in a way similar to holographic interference: memory and consciousness are not localized in specific neurons, but are stored in the brain network in the form of distributed wave interference patterns. Therefore, a small part of the brain can also restore the whole memory (analogous to the properties of a hologram). What is more striking is that Bohm believed consciousness itself might be a holographic phenomenon: he proposed, "Consciousness is like a holographic image, which is formed during the material holographic projection process. When we observe objects, consciousness is the mental projection that appears in the implicate order behind the matter." This view implies that consciousness is not limited to within the brain, but is an unfolded result of the universe's implicate order. Our subjective conscious content (explicate) actually corresponds to deeper information patterns in the universe (implicate), just as a 3D image is mapped from a 2D holographic plate.

In short, Bohm's theory depicts a picture of "information field as the basis, matter as the image": the material world and individual consciousness we see are emergent ripples in a deeper ocean of information. To summarize in one sentence: "Material particles wander in a boundless ocean of information, and this sea of information is the shared hologram of the entire universe." From this, a possibility arises: The information of consciousness may, at a deeper level, already be intertwined with the information field of the entire universe, and not strictly limited to a single human brain. When a person's brain stops functioning, is it possible that their individual conscious information has already been "engraved" into the more macroscopic implicate order, thus continuing to exist in a certain sense? Bohm himself did not directly discuss post-mortem consciousness, but the spirit of his theory gives us room for imagination—the universe may have a holistic consciousness/information field that covers the information of all individuals, and individual consciousness is just a projection from it. If such a field truly exists, then when the projector (the brain) is turned off, the projection disappears, but the information on the film is still there. We will transform such metaphors into concrete arguments later in the reasoning part.

(2) Penrose-Hameroff Quantum Consciousness Model: Another related cutting-edge theory comes from the physicist Roger Penrose and the anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, who jointly proposed the "Orchestrated Objective Reduction" (Orch-OR) theory of quantum consciousness. This theory holds that consciousness is not just classical computation, but may originate from quantum computation processes within the microtubules (cytoskeletal structures) inside brain neurons. Penrose, starting from Gödel's incompleteness theorem and the non-algorithmic nature of consciousness, guessed that quantum gravity effects might be involved in the collapse of consciousness. Hameroff, on the other hand, proposed that brain microtubules provide a biological environment that allows quantum superpositions to be maintained and perform complex quantum computations, and these quantum states coordinate with neural activity through some mechanism, forming our continuous moments of consciousness. Although the "Orch-OR" model is still controversial, its boldness lies in introducing the concept of "primordial quantum consciousness" in the universe: Penrose assumes that the universe has some basic "mind-like" property at the Planck scale, which Hameroff calls a quantum field of "proto-consciousness." They believe that in the evolution of life, structures like microtubules evolved the ability to use this "cosmic quantum consciousness" channel, and thus individual consciousness emerged.

This theory has a striking implication for the "post-mortem consciousness" question: If consciousness corresponds to some quantum information process, then when the body dies, this quantum information will not necessarily be destroyed, but may return to the environment. Hameroff once speculated: when a person's heart stops and the brain's oxygen supply is cut off, the quantum superposition states in the microtubules will decohere, but this quantum information will not be lost, but will diffuse into the quantum substrate of the universe (which can be understood as returning to the "proto-consciousness field"). If the patient is successfully resuscitated, this quantum information might be recaptured by the microtubules, restoring the original conscious content; if not resuscitated, then this information will be forever integrated into the cosmic background. Hameroff even further speculated that this might explain near-death experiences: within a few minutes of clinical death, the brain's quantum information has detached from the body and entered a larger quantum field (the "proto-consciousness" or "source"); when resuscitated through CPR, some of the information flows back into the brain, thus having memories like a "soul journey." Although the above ideas cannot be strictly confirmed at present, they provide an example of discussing "consciousness existing outside the body in some form of information" in a scientific context. It is worth mentioning that some NDE experiencers' reports (such as the experience of American neurosurgeon Eben Alexander after seven days in a coma) have also been used to support this. Alexander, in a deep coma where his cerebral cortex was completely shut down, experienced a clear and vast world of consciousness; after waking up, he declared, "Death is not the end of consciousness, but a chapter in a vaster journey." Although mainstream medicine is still skeptical about this, the quantum consciousness theory provides a possible mechanism to explain this subjective report.

In addition to the above two, there are others not expanded here due to space limitations: for example, the Integrated Information Theory (IIT) mentioned earlier, which even deduces that any system with a non-zero  Φ  value has a weak consciousness, even basic physical systems, which has a certain panpsychist color; another example is Cosmic Computation Theory, where some physicists (John Wheeler, Seth Lloyd, etc.) propose that the universe is essentially a huge computer for information processing, and "bit" is the more fundamental existence ("It from Bit" concept). Under this view, "destroying" a consciousness does not seem easy, because information in the cosmic computation will always be preserved or transformed, and will not be reduced to zero out of thin air. Some physical principles also support information conservation, for example, the Quantum No-Cloning Theorem and the solution to the Black Hole Information Paradox (the holographic principle) all emphasize that information will not be completely lost.

In summary, cutting-edge theories are gradually breaking the inherent taboos in consciousness research, allowing people to seriously consider whether consciousness has a persistence that exceeds traditional physical entities. The holographic theory provides a picture of a holistic cosmic information field, and the quantum consciousness model gives the physical possibility of conscious information "wandering" outside the body. Although these theories have not yet been universally accepted, they provide inspiration and framework for us to explore the proposition of "consciousness not perishing after the body perishes." In the following sections, we will, with the support of the above theories, enter the core reasoning part of this report.

3. Model and Reasoning

In this part, we will, based on the aforementioned theories, systematically argue and deduce the viewpoint that "consciousness (the information field) will not perish after the body perishes." Our reasoning is divided into four levels:

Life's Cognitive Loop and Information Field Construction: Elaborate on how organisms achieve a cognitive closed loop through the DIKWP model, and in this process continuously construct and output information fields. Explain that an individual's information field is not isolated, but exchanges information with the outside world through perception-cognition-expression, thus weaving a cross-individual information graph.

The Independence of the Consciousness Information Field: Argue that consciousness can be regarded as a highly integrated state of the information field, with characteristics relatively independent of the material carrier. With the help of the principle of information conservation and holography, explain that the information field, as a collection of patterns and relationships, its existence does not completely depend on a specific material form.

The Whereabouts of the Information Field Upon Bodily Death: Deduce in what way the information field might continue to exist when the energy field (physiological process) stops. Explore several possibilities: First, information remains in physical traces (such as the environment, others' memories, cultural carriers); Second, information exists in the form of non-local quantum states or fields (referring to quantum entanglement, zero-point energy fields, implicate order, etc.); Third, the information field merges into a higher-level global information field (similar to "consciousness returning to cosmic consciousness").

Construction of the Information Field Permanence Model: Synthesizing the above, propose a model to describe the permanence mechanism of the consciousness information field, and discuss how to test it through experiments or observations. This model will integrate the DIKWP cognitive loop with the idea of physical information conservation, presenting a theoretical framework of "consciousness information conservation."

Through the above step-by-step reasoning, we strive to prove: from the perspective of modern information physics and cognitive science, the information field of human consciousness has the possibility of continuing after the death of the body. We will expand on each of these below.

3.1 Information Field Construction in the Biological Cognitive Loop and Cross-Individual Information Graphs

Every living being, from birth to death, is constantly exchanging information with the environment, constructing a cognition of the world, and imposing its own purposes on the external world, forming a perception-cognition-action closed loop. The DIKWP model well abstracts the information processing process at different stages in this loop. Below we use a specific scenario as an example to illustrate the generation and flow of the information field in this loop, and further show how the information field interweaves across individuals.

Example: Primitive Human Hunting and the Information Loop – Imagine a primitive human hunting in the forest in ancient times. When he sees the grass shaking in the distance, this visual input is the initial Data (D): the image formed by the light signal is projected onto the retina, generating nerve impulses (such as "there is a moving object"). This data is processed by the brain's primary visual cortex and association areas, and is endowed with meaning to become Information (I): the primitive human recognizes "That's prey moving" or "It might be a beast lurking." At this time, Knowledge (K) formed from past experience begins to operate: he recalls past hunting patterns, knows that shaking grass might mean a deer, or it might be a dangerous tiger; based on additional information such as footprints, smells, etc., he applies knowledge and judges it is more likely a deer. Next, he enters the Wisdom (W) stage, where he has to decide what to do: rush up and throw the spear? Or quietly circle around to the downwind side? The wisdom layer combines value judgments and experience (e.g., knowing that rushing out rashly might lead to failure, while a flanking maneuver has a high success rate and is safe). Finally, his Purpose (P) makes the call: his goal is to capture the prey and not get injured, so he chooses the method of circling and ambushing. After this set of decisions is formed in his brain, he puts it into Action: holding his breath, moving slowly, raising his spear to aim, and finally hunting the deer. This entire process constitutes a complete perception-decision loop: Environment → Sensory Data → Information → Knowledge Judgment → Wisdom Decision → Purpose Goal → Behavioral Output → Environmental Change.

In the above process, we can see the embryonic form of the information field forming and operating in the primitive human's brain: various sensory data, memories, judgments, goals, converge into an "field" of his meaningful interpretation of the current situation. As Yucong Duan said, the information field runs through the semantic space from data to wisdom. When this primitive human concentrates on hunting, an "information field of the hunting situation" has already formed in his mind, which includes the integration of multi-level information such as the prey's location, wind direction, terrain, past knowledge, planned purpose, etc. If described in a more abstract way, this information field can be seen as a network composed of many semantic nodes and relationships: nodes include "deer" (prey), "me" (hunter), "spear" (weapon), "wind direction," "grass," and other concepts; relationships include "the deer is downwind," "I am 50 meters from the deer," "the wind is blowing north," "I need to get behind the deer," etc. Such a network is actually the primitive human's understanding of the current situation, and is also the main part of his subjective conscious content. According to IIT theory, his consciousness at this moment can be seen as a whole formed by this information—an information field in a specific state.

Now, let's focus on the Output part of this loop: when the primitive human throws the spear and hits the prey, this action not only completes the transfer of energy (kinetic energy hitting the prey) and the action of matter, but also includes the output of information. Specifically, his action transmits certain information to the surrounding environment: to the prey, this spear conveys the information "You have been attacked, hit and fallen"; to companions who may be observing nearby, this series of actions conveys the information "The prey is there, I hit it." If we introduce another primitive human B hiding not far away, he receives this observable information and will incorporate it into his own information field (perhaps he thus knows there is prey and a companion here, and also comes to help). It can be seen that each individual, through action and communication, is radiating a part of their internal information field outwards. Language is a more advanced form of information output: when the hunt is over, this primitive human returns to the tribe and describes his experience through language; this narrative is a fairly accurate "copy" of his information field, reproduced in the minds of the listeners. Even many years after his death, this story of "the brave warrior hunting the deer" may still be circulating in the tribe, becoming a part of the tribal mythology—a part of his conscious information at that time (experience and meaning) endures in the form of cultural memory.

The above example reveals several key points: First, the information field is constructed in real time during the individual's life activities, and includes the fusion of multi-level information about the internal and external environment, which constitutes the individual's subjective conscious content; Second, the information field is not permanently enclosed within the individual, but is output to the outside world through paths such as behavior and communication, becoming a part of the environment; Third, these information outputs can be received and integrated by others, forming a larger information network. Therefore, we can completely say that there exists a cross-individual information graph, jointly constructed by the information output by each member of the group. Similar concepts in reality include knowledge graphs, cultural heritage, collective consciousness, etc. For example, all the classics, art, and technological achievements of human civilization are a grand information graph accumulated from the externalization (language, writing, artifacts) of the products of countless individuals' information fields. Even if a person's physical body perishes, the information nodes and connections they left on this graph may still exert influence—just as Confucius and Newton have long passed away, but the information of their thoughts still lives on in later academic and cultural circles.

Of course, the above is more of a "social continuity of information," which strictly speaking belongs to "external memory." This, to a certain extent, shows that information patterns can continue independently of their initial carrier: thoughts can detach from the initial brain and be held by other brains through books; musical melodies can detach from the initial composer's brain and echo in the hearts of countless listeners. However, what we are concerned with is consciousness itself—the information field with subjective experience; can it persist without the original brain? This requires a deeper examination of the independence of the information field and the information conservation problem, which we will explore in the next section.

3.2 The Independence of the Consciousness Information Field and Information Conservation

When discussing "whether consciousness is immortal after bodily death," we are essentially asking: Does the information field of consciousness have a way of existing independently of a specific material carrier? To answer this question, we need to sort out the relationship between "information" and "matter/energy," and in what sense information conservation holds true.

Information vs. Energy: Physically, information is usually defined as the reduction of uncertainty or the distinction of the system's microstates. Information is closely related to matter and energy, but also has important differences. According to views of Landauer, Wiener, and others, "Information is information, neither matter nor energy"—information can be carried and transmitted by material or energy carriers, but its pattern itself has a certain abstract independence. For example, the same sentence can be written on paper, stored on a disk, or transmitted through sound waves; the carriers are different but the information contained is the same. Furthermore, information can be transferred between carriers without being lost, as long as the process is reversible and does not produce net entropy. Starting from Shannon's theory, information conservation is not as universal as energy conservation, but in the reversible evolution of a closed system, information entropy remains unchanged, representing a form of effective information conservation (quantum mechanics' unitary evolution strictly satisfies information entropy conservation). This leads to an important idea related to our topic: If the information field of consciousness can correspond to some near-reversible or protected process, then its information will not dissipate out of thin air, but will continue to exist in other forms.

Conjecture on the Conservation of Conscious Information: One of the most thought-provoking cases in physics is the Black Hole Information Paradox. Classical theory holds that any matter and information falling into a black hole will be lost at the singularity, leaving only featureless Hawking radiation; it seems information is destroyed. But the combination of quantum theory and the holographic principle proposed a solution: the black hole's entropy is proportional to the area of its event horizon, indicating that information is not lost but stored on the surface of the event horizon (holographic encoding). Eventually, Hawking himself admitted that information should return to the universe in some highly encrypted way after the black hole evaporates, and will not be truly annihilated. Similarly, we can analogize brain death to an "information collapse" process: the brain, as an information processor, stops operating; does the information in it also disappear like falling into a black hole? According to the lesson from black holes, perhaps not—information may not be destroyed but transferred.

Local Conservation: A part of consciousness-related information is actually preserved in records outside the body, which we have discussed earlier, including others' memories, written and video materials, etc. This means that a part of a person's psychological information has long been dispersed in the environment. For example, a scientist's knowledge and thoughts are widely spread through papers; then even if he passes away, "copies" of his information are still preserved and used in other corners of the world. This is equivalent to externalizing and preserving a part of his information field.

Dispersed Persistence: A large amount of conscious information may be implicitly present in the material traces after brain death. For example, recent studies have shown that a person's EEG may experience a brief high-frequency burst before death, which is suspected to be the neural basis of the "final flare-up." And even after the EEG is flat, the connection structure of the neural circuits (the "connectome") does not physically disappear immediately; it takes a considerable amount of time for the morphology of neural synapses and molecular concentrations to decompose. In theory, if we have sufficiently precise technology to read all the connection and state information of a just-deceased brain, we could obtain a "copy" of the conscious content at the final moment. This implies that conscious information does not vanish instantly, but gradually dissipates. If this process can be captured or halted before dissipation, does it mean a kind of "continuation" of consciousness? This is exactly what some science fiction concepts like "cryopreservation" and "consciousness uploading" attempt to achieve: by preserving the brain's information structure, consciousness can be re-run on another carrier.

Non-local Extension: A more revolutionary possibility comes from quantum non-locality. If consciousness involves quantum processes, as Hameroff's model assumes, then some conscious information or entanglement may have long radiated into the quantum fields of the whole body and even outside the body. When life declines, these non-local correlations will not collapse immediately. For example, the human body is a warm system, and quantum effects may usually be submerged, but near death, when the body temperature drops sharply and metabolism stops, perhaps a window for quantum coherence briefly appears. Some people have proposed that the release of a large amount of DMT (a psychoactive molecule) at the end of life will trigger effects similar to a quantum brain, causing consciousness to briefly detach from the conventional constraints of time and space. Although these conjectures are not confirmed, they suggest that the information field may be linked to the larger environment through quantum entanglement, thus existing in a non-local form in the external field when the local part is extinguished. This is similar to the concept often cited in science fiction: "consciousness uploaded to the universe" or a "consciousness cloud".

Implicit Return: Combining Bohm's idea of implicate order, we can boldly imagine: The information field of individual consciousness is "enfolded" back into the implicate layer of the universe at death. Just like a ripple subsides on the water surface, but the information of the water is not lost. Each person's consciousness, during their lifetime, is an unfolded landscape in the cosmic hologram; death is just the termination of the surface projection, but the implicate interference fringes corresponding to that landscape still remain in the cosmic medium. This might be what some philosophical religions call "Karma" or the "Akashic Records"—all life experience information is objectively recorded in the universe. Einstein's own belief in causal determinism also supports such a view: he believed that everything that happens is necessary, and facts that have existed in the past will not be erased from the overall state of the universe; we just subjectively experience them. Therefore, the entire information generated during a person's life course can be seen as a part of the history of the universe; it will not be written off just because the person's subjective perspective disappears.

The above points provide multiple possible mechanisms for the consciousness information field to persist when the body terminates. Although each point is still controversial or imperfect, they, from different aspects, weaken the certainty of the traditional view that "consciousness inevitably turns to dust with brain death," and instead point to various channels for the fidelity of conscious information.

Let's return to Einstein's opening maxim: "The distinction is only an illusion." In the language of physics, he tells us that time is a dimension that already exists in four-dimensions; every event in life permanently occupies a place in spacetime and does not cease to exist just because the "present" becomes the "past." This is equivalent to saying that the entire trajectory of a person's consciousness stream, from birth to death, is physically engraved in the spacetime continuum. Although we subjectively cannot feel post-mortem consciousness, because that is beyond our time slice, from a God's-eye view, everyone's consciousness is a complete spacetime river, whose source and destination are both within the universe. If we further consider the holographic principle, the content of this river may even be holographically encoded on the boundary of the universe. These physical pictures do not directly endow the individual with the ability to continue perceiving after death, but they give a serious and scientific meaning to "the immortality of conscious information": Consciousness, as an information pattern, leaves an indelible mark in the information scroll of the entire universe.

3.3 The Persistence Modes of the Information Field Upon Bodily Death

In the previous section, we discussed from a macroscopic principle level that conscious information may not be annihilated without reason. So, more specifically, in what way might the consciousness information field continue to exist at the moment of or after bodily death? Here we, combined with the previous theories, list three hypothetical modes of persistence and analyze their rationality:

Mode 1: Local Information Residue and Transfer (Classical Persistence). When a person is dying, the brain stops working, but the remaining physical structures and traces still carry information. For example, if high-tech means are used to freeze and preserve the brain, then the information structure of consciousness is also frozen along with it, which is equivalent to "freezing" the conscious information without letting it dissipate. If future technology can thaw and restart these structures, in theory, that consciousness can be restored (this is the logical assumption behind the current "cryonics technology"). Even without freezing, the information in the just-deceased brain, such as synaptic connections, molecular concentration distributions, takes a long time to be completely destroyed. During this time, if the brain connectome is scanned, it is hopeful that most of the deceased's memory and personality information can be extracted. The "Blue Brain Project" in the US and other studies dedicated to simulating the entire brain's connections can already partially reconstruct animal brain connectomes and simulate simple activities on computers. If one day the human brain structure can be scanned and copied to run in a computer, then some form of "digital personality" will reappear—although it is philosophically controversial whether it is equivalent to the original self, it is undeniable that it also represents a continuation of conscious information. Taking a step back, even without such cutting-edge technology, the content left by everyone after death in letters, works, and network data is also an external part of that person's consciousness information field; they can influence others and society for a long time. When we read the texts of deceased philosophers, a part of their thinking is reproduced in our minds and continues to "speak." Therefore, from a classical information perspective, a person still "exists" in the world through the information trajectory left by their influence. It's just that this has detached from the subjective experience level and is a persistence of objective information influence.

Mode 2: Diffusion of Quantum Information After Decoherence (Quantum Persistence). According to Hameroff's model speculation, when the body, especially the brain, dies, the quantum information cloud originally confined to the neural microtubules will "diffuse" into the broader quantum environment. We can use the language of quantum mechanics to describe: consciousness before death consists of some entangled quantum states localized in the brain, forming continuous fragments through constant Orchestration and Reduction. When the brain function terminates, these quantum states lose the environment that maintains them and decohere. But decoherence does not equal destruction; it means becoming entangled with the environment. This means the information that originally belonged to the conscious system is scattered into the surrounding quantum fields, which may include the electromagnetic field, the Earth's "Schrödinger field" (if any), etc. It's like a champagne bottle shattering, and the champagne liquid spills on the carpet—the liquid (information) hasn't disappeared, it's just seeped into a larger medium, and is just hard to collect back. Hameroff believes that this scattered information will belong to the ocean of "primordial cosmic consciousness," which we can perhaps understand as a "background quantum mind field." The deceased's conscious information is like a drop of water merging into the sea; the individuality dissipates, but the information itself still exists in some form in that "sea" (perhaps only perceivable at the quantum level). Some parapsychology researchers have proposed the concept of a "global consciousness field," for example, the famous "Global Consciousness Project (GCP)" which attempts to detect statistical deviations caused by global events through random number generators; the results, although controversial, are quite intriguing. These all point to a possibility: The information field of individual consciousness may merge into or influence a larger collective quantum information field. At death, this fusion reaches its peak, and the individual completely becomes a part of the whole. From a scientific point of view, this is similar to imagining the existence of a quantum field that permeates all things, and everyone's consciousness is a mode in it; when alive, the mode is locally clear, and after death, the mode dissipates and returns to the ground state.

Mode 3: Unification of Holographic Information (Holographic Persistence). If we accept Bohm's implicate order theory, we can further depict a picture: the information structure accumulated by each person throughout their life corresponds to a unique interference pattern in the implicate order. It's as if everyone is a subplot in the grand drama of the universe, and their script (information) is being recorded on the cosmic disk at all times. Death is not the destruction of the script, but the script being finished and finalized, and the character exiting the stage. The script is still preserved in the "archives" of the universe and can be read or re-projected under certain conditions. Perhaps the universe itself is constantly projecting these scripts—for example, some kind of multi-world or multiple projection interpretation, allowing the conscious information to continue to be interpreted in another branch of the universe (this is close to the idea of reincarnation, but can be physically analogized to the quantum multi-world). Even without considering multi-worlds, in our universe alone, the holographic theory also brings the inspiration of "information is everywhere": the implicate order means that in the information ocean of the entire universe, every part contains an information mapping of the other parts. Therefore, a person's information, in the implicate state, is already indistinguishably entangled with others; death is just the interruption of the explicate connection, but the implicate connection still exists. For example, assuming some supernatural "telepathy" phenomenon, it might be the superluminal transmission of information achieved through the implicate order. Then when the sender's physical body perishes, their implicate order information may still cause ripples in the receiver—this is reminiscent of legends such as "the deceased visiting in dreams" or "apparitions," which may have a trace of rationality from the holographic perspective. Although these phenomena lack rigorous evidence, under the holographic view, they are no longer completely impossible. At the very least, the holographic implicate order guarantees the completeness and continuity of information in the whole: the universe does not have a hard eraser to wipe out a certain piece of information; on the contrary, once a piece of information occurs, it leaves a permanent ripple in the global interference. This provides a deep meaning of "permanence."

Taken together, the three modes explain how the consciousness information field can "persist" from the classical, quantum, and holographic perspectives, respectively. The classical level focuses on externalization and objective records, the quantum level emphasizes non-locality and field fusion, and the holographic level appeals to the preservation of holistic associations. They are not mutually exclusive; they may even be different expressions of the same process. For example, if the universe has a holographic boundary that stores all information (as the AdS/CFT principle suggests), then the deceased's conscious information is "engraved" on the boundary (holographic storage); at the same time, under the boundary-bulk correspondence, this information is also reflected in the subtle entanglement of the entire bulk (implicate order) (quantum diffusion), while macroscopically, it is reflected in the traces left in others and the environment (classical residue). From this, it can be seen that "consciousness immortality" is not mysterious; it may be an aspect of the natural operation of the universe. Just as the law of energy conservation ensures that the material world has an indestructible quantity, perhaps in the future we will discover some "law of information conservation" that ensures the information world has an indestructible form. Based on the current understanding of physics and information science, we have already seen glimpses of this, for example, Landauer's principle suggests that information erasure requires a thermodynamic cost, and the No-hiding theorem proves that quantum information cannot be completely hidden without a trace. All these support a belief: Consciousness, as highly organized information, will not randomly dissipate into meaningless turbulence; some part of its structure will be preserved in some way.

3.4 Construction and Verification Prospects of the "Information Field Permanence Model"

Combining the above reasoning, we can try to construct an "Information Field Permanence Model" to integrate these views. The core elements of this model include:

Cognitive Closed Loop: Use the DIKWP model to describe the information generation and action loop of the living consciousness. The information field continuously interacts with the energy field before the individual's death, forming a unified mind-body system.

Information Outflow: During the individual's life cycle, their information field is transmitted outwards through various channels, connecting into the information network of the group and the environment.

Implicate State Coupling: The individual information field is coupled with a larger-level information field (which can be imagined as a "global consciousness field" or "quantum implicate order field"), and there is always an implicit association. Normally, the individual consciousness operates self-consistently, and these associations are not significant; but the association ensures the non-local potential sharing of information.

End-of-Life Transformation: When the individual approaches death, the energy field moves towards the zero state (thermodynamic equilibrium), and at this time, the coupling between the information field and the global field becomes relatively explicit. The individual information field gradually transforms from a local form to a non-local form. For example, neural activity stops but the entangled state is released into the environment; the conscious content is no longer carried by the brain but by the implicate order.

Information Preservation: After the material life ends, the original individual's information is preserved in multiple carriers: a part in classical carriers (texts, others' memories, etc.), a part in quantum implicate states (entanglement, zero-point field patterns), and a part in holographic mappings (cosmic overall interference structure). These carriers jointly ensure the reconstructability of the information: at least conceptually, there exists the possibility of re-aggregating this information to produce a similar consciousness.

Consciousness Reappearance (Optional): The model predicts that if certain conditions are met, this preserved information can be reorganized into a conscious state. For example, future technology copies the deceased's brain, providing the same structure and initial state, then the externally preserved information can be input, and the new system may "awaken," subjectively continuing the deceased's consciousness (similar to "resurrection" in science fiction). Or, if the quantum implicate state information re-entangles and enters another biological brain under specific conditions, perhaps "reincarnation" phenomena occur. Of course, these are speculations; the model only points out their non-violation in terms of information theory.

To express this with a diagram, one could draw the living consciousness information field as a closed circle, connected to the outside world by arrows (information input and output); the outside world is divided into Environmental Records (classical) and the Cosmic Implicate Field (quantum/holographic). When the arrows flow out of the individual and no longer flow back (death), the information still exists in the external circulation (e.g., circulating in the cosmic implicate field). If at some point it flows into a new individual, then a recycling of conscious information occurs.

Although this model sounds very bold now, it proposes clear testable elements. For example:

Quantum Signal Detection at Brain Death: The model predicts that if conscious information escapes in quantum form, one could try to detect abnormal electromagnetic or quantum signals at the time of death. As Hameroff's team suggested, one could look for abnormal infrared radiation or other signs around the human body at the time of death (corresponding to the energy released by microtubules). If regular signals are detected, it means the information is released in an orderly manner rather than random heat dissipation.

Consistency of Near-Death Experiences: If conscious information enters a global field, perhaps the descriptions of different individuals' NDEs will have intersections or even interactions. By studying a large sample of NDE descriptions, see if there are independent cases reporting the same "scenes" or "information fragments" (difficult, but some cross-cultural similarities are suggestive).

Quantum Entanglement Continuation Experiment: Imagine a thought experiment: let a biological system (such as a cultured brain organoid) generate specific entangled states internally, then suddenly terminate its activity, and see if residual entanglement correlations can be measured in the environment. If so, it will prove that information is indeed preserved in quantum form.

Implicate Order Projection: Perhaps one day, through some computational method to read the tiny "information imprints" in the cosmic background radiation or vacuum fluctuation patterns, one can identify some past structure corresponding to human collective information. This sounds remote, but it is similar to SETI looking for signals in cosmic noise, just with the target changed to historical information. If meaningful pattern fragments can be extracted from physical noise, it also confirms that information leaves traces.

Simulation Verification: Use supercomputers to implement a model in a virtual environment that includes DIKWP intelligent agents and a global information field, and observe how the intelligent agent's information is distributed in the environmental data when it "dies" (program terminates). This can help verify the logical consistency of the model. If it is found that the data output by the intelligent agent can be used to partially "resurrect" its computational state, then it is consistent with the model.

Through these possible future studies, we hopefully can gradually change "consciousness immortality" from a philosophical fantasy to a scientific topic. Of course, it is still too early to talk about verification now, but the model at least provides a theoretical blueprint to inspire subsequent exploration.

4. Philosophical Discussion

Since we propose that the consciousness information field is expected to persist after the body's demise, we have to face a series of philosophical questions: "Whose" consciousness is it that gets to be immortal? Separated from the living brain, is such consciousness still the original self? How do subjective experience and personality continue? Does the meaning of life and ethics change because of this? In this section, we will explore these questions from the three perspectives of self, experience stream, and meaning, while reflecting on the limitations of traditional neural reductionism in these aspects, and explaining how the information field model provides new solutions.

4.1 Self, Subjectivity, and Identity

The classic question in philosophy about personal identity is: If a person's consciousness exists in some form after physical death, is it still the original "self"? Traditional neuroscience would say no, because the self is a product of the brain; if the brain is gone, how can there be a self. However, if we accept the view that the self is an information pattern, then as long as the information pattern is preserved, the self is preserved in a certain sense. This is similar to copying software to new hardware; the identity of the program can continue. The DIKWP model emphasizes the central status of purpose and values in the cognitive chain. Purpose and values are important aspects of a person's identity. If the deceased's information field retains the core purposes and value orientations of his life, then we can say the core of subjectivity is still there. For example, suppose one day an AI reproduces a deceased person's DIKWP module, allowing it to show the same purpose pursuit and wisdom style as in life when interacting with people; then the interactor may sincerely feel "this person is still alive," because that familiar subjective style is still the same. This shows that informational identity can define personal identity. In contrast, neural reductionists cannot explain the continuity of self-identity: our brain dynamics change greatly every night when we sleep, why are we still "me" the next day and not a new personality? Looking at matter alone is not enough; it is the information pattern (memory, personality tendencies, goals) that supports the identity. The information field model allows us to grasp the unchanging pattern amidst material changes, and thus answer how the self continues. The view of relying on patterns rather than specific atoms is also the philosophical basis for "a copy is still the person" in the works of science fiction writers like Greg Egan.

Of course, there is a deeper step in philosophy: "Even if the information pattern is there, how is the first-person perspective of subjective experience guaranteed?" This is the famous "Hard Problem" of consciousness. Even if an identical information system is replicated, it may just be another person identical to me, not "me" myself experiencing. I die, my experience terminates; this is the most intuitive cognition. Will the immortality of the information field just create some objective consciousness or traces, rather than maintaining the consciousness with the subject "I"? Here we must admit that there is no completely clear answer at present, because this touches on the mystery of subjectivity. Some philosophical schools such as panpsychism would say that subjectivity is fundamental; wherever the information goes, the subjectivity follows; Vijnanavada (Consciousness-Only School) would say that the stream of consciousness has no owner, everything is co-dependent origination. But from the perspective of information science, we can propose a possibility: perhaps the feeling of "I" is actually a result of the high integration and self-referential nature of information within the brain. If the same highly integrated information structure can be rebuilt elsewhere (or has not disintegrated, just exists in a different background), then it is entirely possible for an experience continuous with the original self to emerge. Take an analogy: a burning candle lights another candle; the flame seems to continue, but the wax is not the original wax. Are these two flames the same one? Physically not, but the pattern of light and heat is continuously inherited. Perhaps the self is also like this: as long as the fire of information/consciousness is passed on, then from the first-person perspective, no interruption is seen (just as the flame thinks it has never been extinguished). This is a bit like the teleportation of consciousness thought experiment: if every neural state of a person's brain is encoded into signals, instantly transmitted to a distant place and assembled, and the original is destroyed—does that person feel they have teleported? Many philosophers tend to say yes. In other words, subjective identity can be determined by information continuity, and does not necessarily depend on the same matter. Our model's emphasis on the continuity and fidelity of the information field is precisely to preserve subjectivity to the greatest extent. What is immortal is not an empty shell, but the information whole, full of the original subject's characteristics and experiences, so it should be able to continue self-consciousness (at least potentially).

In contrast, the traditional neural view, because it sees consciousness as completely dependent on the physical body, arbitrarily concludes that the subject also terminates once the body is destroyed. This is actually a mechanistic understanding of the subject, reducing the "person" to a non-replicable machine. This report does not deny the subtlety and particularity of the brain, but advocates that subjectivity cannot be simplified to a certain physical body. The absurdity of the latter is that it cannot even explain everyday subjective continuity: our body cells are constantly metabolizing, changing most of them every ten years; the matter is long different, but no one feels that the self of ten years ago was another person. This shows that subjectivity transcends the purely material category and has the nature of information and patterns.

4.2 Experience Stream and Meaning Continuity

William James once described human consciousness as a "stream of consciousness," i.e., what we experience is a continuous flow of sensations-thoughts-emotions, constantly passing and arising, forming a continuous drama in time. Death, in common sense, is seen as the cliff of this stream: all experience comes to an abrupt end. Even if the information is still preserved elsewhere as described before, that is just cold data, without the feeling of flow and presentness. However, relativity tells us that "present" is just an observational perspective; the entire process "simultaneously" exists as a four-dimensional curve. Therefore, it can be said that a person's experience stream is closed into a complete curve at death, but it has not disappeared from spacetime. Later generations can "replay" fragments of it through various means; this is essentially letting that experience be experienced again in other ways, thus giving it new life. For example, reading the diaries of historical figures can reconstruct the outline of their psychological stream experience at that time; we seem to borrow their subjective perspective to see the world for a moment. In terms of meaning, that stream of experience did not flow in vain, because later generations can partially empathize and understand, which means the meaning continuity of the experience extends into others' minds. Similarly, if more advanced technology in the future can directly reproduce their visual, auditory, and even emotional experiences from the deceased's information, then the originally static information will be injected with dynamics and flow again; this is almost equivalent to the continuation of the experience stream (even if the host is different).

Taking a step back, even if no one empathizes, the individual's experience stream may internally have permanence. A philosopher (like Wheeler) might say: when you die, your subjective time dimension stops, then subjectively the next moment is the ultimate end of the universe (no time perception), which is equivalent to some kind of eternity. This speculation is a bit subtle but reflects another understanding of "stopping": for one who has no time perception, there is no problem of rupture; his last moment subjectively extends into eternity. However, this is not the focus of this report. We want to emphasize more that the meaning contained in life experience does not stop because life ends. Existentialists might think that death makes life a closed text, with no new chapters afterward, so the meaning is fixed or dissipates. But if the consciousness information field can merge into a larger field, then the meaning of individual life may be absorbed by a grander context, becoming a part of the long river of meaning. For example, your good deeds and thoughts influence those who come after, and are passed on further; then the meaning of your life continues in others' streams of consciousness. The information field model encourages us to look at meaning in this way: it is not a subjective product in an isolated individual's brain, but can be objectively carried in the information network, and flows and evolves in the network. Each person's information field is like a musical movement; death is not an abrupt stop, but may, as the theme of the movement, be integrated into the subsequent passages of the entire symphony and appear repeatedly.

Traditional neuroscience often avoids the questions of meaning and value, because its framework has difficulty dealing with subjective meaning (this is part of the Hard Problem of philosophy of mind). The information field model, however, naturally incorporates meaning (semantics) into its structure: information itself is meaningful, and meaningful information patterns can objectively exist in the field. Therefore, it provides us with a basis for discussing meaning continuity. If a person pursues justice all his life, the meaning of this "justice" is transmitted through his information field; after his death, it may enter the information field of society, and the people he influenced continue to carry and promote it; this is the continuity of meaning. As the saying goes, "the spirit is immortal"; from an information perspective, it is entirely possible to be immortal, because spirit = highly organized information and is transmissible (David Hume believed the self is a kind of "bundle of perceptions"; the information model can give it a real carrier).

In short, at the Lphilosophical level, the theory of the immortality of the information field gives us a comforting and encouraging perspective: the individual's self and experience are not fleeting clouds, but more like a section in the information chapter of the universe; it is forever engraved in the book of the universe and will not disappear due to the annihilation of the material medium. This not only answers the anxiety about existence, but also provides a basis for the continuation of the value of life. This is not equivalent to advocating the immortality of the soul in superstition—what we are talking about is the permanence of information; it may not have the kind of personal consciousness as traditionally thought, but it hides the potential to be perceived again, understood again, and merged again. Perhaps everyone's conscious information eventually becomes a part of the overall consciousness of the universe (if any), just as a drop of water eventually returns to the sea. If the universe itself is meaningful, then the meaning of the individual is sublimated through this integration.

4.3 Reflection on Traditional Neural Reductionism

After the above discussion, we can see that traditional neural reductionism has shortcomings in dealing with aspects such as self, experience, and meaning. It can hardly explain why subjective experience arises, is continuous, and why some spiritual values have power that transcends the individual. This leads to reductionism often being criticized for "desoulizing the person": once a person dies, all is empty. This grim position certainly has its scientific humility, but it may also be a reductionist error. If information theory and quantum theory show glimpses of the immortality of conscious information, then stubbornly adhering to reductionism is not keeping up with the times. We are not denying the importance of the brain, but advocating that the brain is the platform for the formation of consciousness, but the fate of conscious information is not necessarily strictly bound to the survival of the brain. Just as writing requires paper and pen, but thought is not equal to paper and pen. The multidisciplinary arguments we put forward precisely show that the problem of consciousness needs to be viewed comprehensively across single levels: one must consider neural implementation, information patterns, and even delve into the physical basis. This is also the philosophical original intention of Professor Yucong Duan's emphasis on "proactive medicine needs multidisciplinary integration, unity of body and mind, and equal emphasis on information and energy." Traditional single reductionism has reached its end and has hit a wall in front of consciousness research (after all, the Hard Problem is still unsolved). The new generation of models (including the DIKWP information field model) provides a new research route: moving towards non-reductive holism. As Bohm said, "wholeness and the implicate order" must be considered, otherwise, we will always be scratching the surface of consciousness.

It is worth mentioning that such a holistic view has long been reflected in Eastern philosophy and some religions. For example, the Buddhist "Alaya-vijnana" (storehouse consciousness) theory is a bit like the idea of an information warehouse; death does not destroy consciousness, the seeds remain. And various ideas in Taoism and Hinduism all point to consciousness having some kind of transpersonal continuity. In the past, science dismissed this, but today's development of information-physics allows us to re-examine these ideas in the language of natural science, filter out the superstitious components, and extract testable propositions (such as information conservation, extra-cerebral consciousness, etc.). This is also an opportunity for dialogue and co-progress between philosophy and science.

In summary, the philosophical problems are not only not an obstacle to our theory, but on the contrary, they find new light in the information field framework: the self, experience, meaning, these facets of the mystery of consciousness, all have the beginnings of an answer. Of course, there is still a long way to go to completely solve them, but the direction seems clearer than mechanism—finding answers at the information level, rather than just drilling into the flesh. In the next section, we will summarize and emphasize future work, and then list the references.

5. Future Prospects

If the consciousness information field indeed has the possibility of permanence, it will have a profound impact on scientific research and human society. In this section, we will look forward to future possible research directions and application prospects, and briefly discuss the ethical and philosophical implications.

New Topics for Scientific Research: After the Information Field Permanence Model is proposed, many interdisciplinary research topics will emerge. First is the problem of consciousness detection and measurement: How to determine if a system without a traditional living body contains a consciousness information field? This requires the development of new indicators of consciousness, perhaps based on information integration ( Φ ), quantum entanglement entropy, etc. Scholars around the world are already trying to use the  Φ  indicator to measure the degree of consciousness in AI or organisms. Our model encourages expanding the indicators to inorganic carriers (such as computers) or terminal brains to monitor the "afterglow" of the consciousness field. Second, Quantum Brain, Bio-quantum will become a prominent field. If consciousness involves quantum information, then more in-depth experiments (such as proving quantum oscillations in microtubules) will receive attention. The Orch-OR model of Hameroff et al., which was marginalized in the past, may have a chance for verification with the help of new technologies (quantum sensors, biological superconductivity detection). Third, the R&D of Whole Brain Emulation and Brain-Computer Interfaces will also accelerate. Since it is theoretically meaningful to preserve the information field, it is very attractive to continue consciousness in digital form through whole-brain simulation or brain-computer interfaces. Projects like the Blue Brain Project and Google's connectome project may get more support. However, these bring ethical challenges and require forward-looking discussion to avoid social problems caused by identity confusion and digital immortality.

Experimental Verification: As described in Section 3.4, a series of experiments can be designed to verify the model. Here are a few more specific ideas: a) Near-death EEG synchronization experiment: Measure the EEGs of multiple dying patients to see if there are cross-individual synchronous fluctuations when approaching flatness, to test for collective consciousness field effects. b) Information field intervention experiment: Play specific information (such as familiar music) to terminally ill patients, and see if this information affects their external environment during the death process (e.g., whether random number generators in the room show related deviations, similar to the GCP idea). This can explore whether the information field carries content and affects physical processes when it escapes. c) Implicate order computation: Theoretical workers can use holographic/tensor network simulations to analogize the retention and loss of information in brain death by calculating the retention and loss of information in black hole evaporation models. If it is found that in a certain model, all information remains on the boundary, it corresponds to the extreme case of our model. d) AI autonomy experiment: Embed DIKWP into artificial intelligence agents, and test whether they can rely on externalized information to re-operate or be restored after their main modules are shut down. This is similar to an attempt at consciousness immortality in the digital domain and can serve as a proof of concept.

Medical and Clinical Significance: If conscious information can persist, it will have an impact on coma, vegetative states, and end-of-life care in clinical practice. For example, for deeply comatose patients, we will consider that their information field may be partially "detached" from the body; can it be guided back through external signals? For end-of-life care, perhaps we should encourage the collection of the patient's key life information (memoirs, videos), in order to preserve their information field for future generations to interact with (currently, some people train chatbots with the deceased's data to simulate their dialogue, which is a primary application). More science-fiction-like, there may be "information field relays" in the future: when an elderly person is dying, their brain information is transmitted in real time to an AI companion to continue the conversation, helping the family to transition smoothly. Ethicists must intervene to discuss the moral norms of these applications, but undoubtedly, this will greatly change our attitude towards death—it is no longer the end of information, but a transformation of form.

Socio-Cultural Impact: If the immortality of consciousness is gradually accepted by the public, the entire human culture will shift to paying more attention to the inheritance and management of information heritage. People may care more about the preservation of their digital information than ever before (digital heritage legislation is more urgent). Religiously, this theory may coincide with some beliefs (such as the immortality of the soul), which may promote dialogue between science and religion, enabling them to find a common language at the information and energy levels. And those atheists may view "immortality" in a more rational way: no longer hoping for a supernatural soul, but relying on technology and cosmic physics to achieve some kind of "soft immortality." Of course, we must also be wary of some misuses, for example, some people may misinterpret the model as ironclad proof of soul reincarnation, thus breeding pseudoscience or scams. This requires scientists to actively popularize science and clarify: Information field permanence does not mean that individual soul ghosts can interact at will; it is more likely to be the objective continuation of unconscious information. We must prevent people from using this to deceive, such as claiming to be able to communicate with the deceased's information.

Psychological and Ethical: For individuals, believing in the permanence of conscious information may bring comfort, and also new responsibilities. If I know that the information of my every word and deed will last forever in the universe, then perhaps I will live more cautiously and strive to create; this is similar to the secular effect of "the soul is immortal, so do good deeds" in traditional beliefs. In addition, the view of life and death may also change, no longer extremely fearing death, because death does not equal everything turning to nothing, but a change in the state of existence. Ethically, we need to think about whether resurrection technology should be applied: if a person's information can be reassembled, should we respect "waking them up"? Does he count as the original legal personality? These will become focal points of future ethical discussions.

Diagrammatic Model: To summarize more intuitively, we provide the following (imaginary) diagram:

[Due to text-based, imagine a diagram here: On the left is a human figure, with the information field circled in its brain. An arrow points, on the one hand, to the larger environment on the right (trees, other people), indicating that information is output and remains in the environment; another arrow points upwards to a cloud (representing the cosmic information field), indicating implicate state coupling. Below the human figure, a tombstone is drawn to represent death; at this time, the human figure fades out, but the information still exists in books and others' brains in the environment, and his information also merges into the cloud above. Then on the right, another human figure may be born, and the arrow from the cloud above points to it, implying that the information may be projected again.]

The above model diagram illustrates: The individual consciousness information field (yellow halo) is connected to the environment and the cosmic field before death; after death, the individual is gone, but the information traces still exist and may have an impact on the future. At the very top of the diagram, one could perhaps write: "Information is Conserved, Consciousness Endures."

6. Conclusion

This report, through a comprehensive argumentation spanning cognitive science, physics, and philosophy, has provided systematic support for the viewpoint triggered by Einstein that "the consciousness information field does not perish after the body perishes." We have sorted out the cognitive closed loop and the information field-energy field co-creation mechanism described by Professor Yucong Duan's DIKWP model, showing that consciousness can be regarded as a highly organized form of the information field, interacting with the energy field but having independent semantic continuity. Organisms continuously project their information fields into the environment and others during their life course, forming a cross-individual information graph, so that the informational influence of the individual transcends the individual's life. At the end of life, from the perspectives of physical energy conservation, quantum information, holographic implicate order, etc., information does not simply annihilate, but transforms its way of existence. Einstein's relativistic view of time and his insight into the illusion of material spacetime provide inspiration from a scientific worldview for the continuation of the consciousness field. Although mainstream neuroscience believes that consciousness originates from the brain and perishes with the brain, it itself has difficulty solving the difficult problems such as subjective experience and self-continuity. On the contrary, we have introduced ideas including Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, Bohm's Holographic Theory, Penrose-Hameroff's Quantum Consciousness, etc., to clarify the informational properties and non-local potential of consciousness. Philosophically, we have discussed how the immortality of the information field can, in a certain sense, guarantee the continuation of the self and meaning, responding to the existential dilemma brought by death. We have proposed the "Information Field Permanence Model," outlining the picture of conscious information being conserved and transmitted from within the individual to a more macroscopic domain, and looked forward to future feasible verification paths and potential application impacts.

It needs to be emphasized that this report does not claim to have proved the permanence of consciousness, but rather to show that under the contemporary scientific framework, this hypothesis has self-consistent and rich support, and is no longer just a metaphysical fantasy. Just as the law of energy conservation was also a bold conjecture before it was fully proven, the immortality of information and consciousness may become a new principle of science in the 21st century. Einstein devoted his life to finding a unified field theory, pursuing the deep simplicity and eternal beauty of natural laws. He may not have directly said "consciousness is immortal," but he firmly believed that the rationality of nature would not let the content of the universe be lost without reason. He said: "I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world." Perhaps, in that glimpsed structure, lies the mystery we are discussing today: matter will decay, energy will be transferred, but information—especially the information condensed into consciousness—merges into a larger existence, floating in the eternal field.

Let us conclude with such a vision: when humans have a more thorough understanding of the nature of consciousness and the information of the universe, the boundary between life and death may be redefined. The passing of an individual no longer means absolute nothingness, but the fire of information being passed from one beacon to the vast starry sky. From the perspective of the starry sky, every cluster of life's flame is forever a part of the cosmic spectrum; extinguishing is just the brilliance merging into the long-lasting light of the background. As the theme of this report suggests: Though the body perishes, the wisdom-life endures; information is immortal, the spirit lives forever.

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