Orchestrated Idealism is an ontological framework that posits universal phenomenal consciousness as the fundamental ground of reality. It resolves the hard problem of consciousness by inverting the materialist paradigm. Instead of viewing consciousness as an emergent property of complex matter, it defines matter as the extrinsic, perceptible appearance of trans-personal mental processes. Within this framework, individual, subjective consciousness is a localized, self-organizing state of high coherence achieved through a specific biophysical mechanism.
The universe is a unitary field of phenomenal consciousness. What are termed the "laws of physics" are not prescriptive rules governing inert matter, but rather descriptive constants representing the stable, self-consistent dynamics of this universal mentation. Energy and mass are properties of this field, and spacetime is the structural form of its expression.