The Metaphysical Connection of Consciousness to the Physical World

Abstract

There is a long metaphysical tradition that equates the nature of being to consciousness itself, but then has difficulty connecting consciousness to the physical world. This metaphysical connection is explored in terms of recent developments in modern physics, including the holographic principle, dark energy, non-commutative geometry, and unification mechanisms. In the sense of non-dual metaphysics, the ultimate nature of being is argued to be undifferentiated consciousness. It is also argued that this ultimate nature of all being, which is One Being, can only be identified as the void.