The Universe is a Collective Conciousness.

You brought up some good counterpoints. Some of them are due to me not explaining my terms well enough. I will try to clarify and raise contentions where I can. To your initial questions. My claim when I say "exist" means that it holds physical space in the universe. You could call it matter and energy. Although, I would like to point out that there is an equivocation we need to watch out for in the word energy. Some energies come from particles, Specifically bosons I think, But don't quote me on that. The second kind of energy does not actually exist and is abstract. These types of energies would be: Heat, Kinetic, Potential, Etc. These types of energies are only descriptions of physical events and are only "energy" in the same sense of the motion between falling dominoes being energy. So essentially, Existence, Under my definition, Only includes particles and any smaller parts they may break into. I reject time as existing. Time is an abstract concept. There is no actual "time" that can be touched our held. However, We're going to have to step over another possible equivocation here. I use the type 1 term for existence. However, There is type 2, 3, And 4 existence which accounts for different types of abstracts and fantasies. When I refer to existence, It will always be type 1 existence. I will concede that I cannot claim eternal existence as absolutely true. However, I can make a strong probabilistic argument because of the overwhelming amount of evidence that supports my claim. This means that my claim can produce a logical structure, But the structure will have a few shades of lower confidence level. That's the best I can do at the moment. So on this point, You're confusing consciousness with agency. Agency is the ability to willfully interact with reality, And consciousness is just the disposition of experiencing reality. So my claim of conscious particles has nothing to do with how they move. I'm saying that some, If not all types of particles, Experience a primitive form of consciousness. To us, This would be like being blind, Deaf, Dumb, And numb all at the same time. This sounds contradictory, But there are actually experiments that people missing their sense still feel their senses on a primitive level. Blind people see glitters, Deaf people hear static. Numb people and amputees feel pins and needles, Etc. This type of consciousness would currently be unprovable, Except by soft theories. But if my hypothesis is correct, Then the consciousness is the receiver and the sense are an interface and science could potentially build a superficial interface to test for this. Like I said, I don't believe this tentatively, But rather I think it's the most probable option from what we have. I'm not using an argument from ignorance fallacy there, Because I'm not claim my hypothesis to be true or justified by any standard. I'm not convinced that anything non physical exists. Okay, So I should have elaborated on what a collective consciousness would be. I'm not arguing for the historical version of it where everybody is connected while they live. But rather, My theory is that each particle has an individual primitive consciousness and when pools of matter and energy get together, All of the connected particles interface with each other and start sharing the same consciousness. This would still be like the primitive consciousness, Except now the particles can ping their position to allow the static sensation to have location, Allowing them to move much in the way we see brainless things moving in nature. Eventually, The particles evolve to the point of having advanced sensory and can slowly make the static look more precise. This fits the way eyes and ears and touch evolved. Taste and smell are special cases, In that they are basically food and chemical filtering systems that rely on the shapes of things rather than formally sensing activity. I believe these just exist as a way to filter out bad food and chemicals and aren't AS much about navigating reality. The part where my theory really gets crazy is that, If all of this were true. A person that dies would split back into individual particles and some or all of those particles can reform into another conscious identity. This hypothesis would also force us to reconsider what humanity considers living. It may be the case that the entire universe is alive and we don't realize it because all conscious things are expected to have agency, But that is just an arbitrary standard that human agents set. We can't know for sure that agency and consciousness are mutually inclusive. So this theory doesn't suggest that people's consciousnesses inter mingle in a psychic way. I don't know exactly what to say on Gamma radiation, Because I'm having a hard time getting a proper description of what it is. But from what I could gather, Its either radiated particles (less likely) or it's an abstract effect that does not actually exist (fairly likely) Or it's something smaller than a particle, Like quarks (also fairly likely) I appreciate the complement. But I haven't gotten the wording on this argument quite right yet and your critiques are going to help me give it sound wording. Even if particles are fields, They would still interact the same way and those "fields" would be what we know to be physical reality. Think of a table's "field" as an invisible fence, Like the dogs have, And the field stops your hand field from passing through the table field unless you smash the hand field into it really hard. So functionally the same. I'm not willing to trade particles for fields just yet. I'll hold out to see what happens in science first. Well, I tried to address everything. Hopefully my position is more clear and I know I won't make it back a strong inductive argument with the current structure, But that's okay for now. We'll call it the first draft, Lol. Your floor.