What if consciousness doesn’t begin inside the mind?

Why does consciousness exist at all? Why does experience have a point of view? And how does a physical universe give rise to something as intimate as an I?

Primordial Awareness: The Inner Nature of Reality explores the possibility that experience is an intrinsic aspect of reality itself.

Drawing from philosophy of mind, neuroscience, metaphysics, and modern theories of consciousness, Brittany Wiseman develops the Primordial Awareness Hypothesis (PAH), a framework proposing that physical organization may localize the experiential character of reality into individual conscious perspectives.

The book explores the nature of consciousness, the relationship between brain and experience, the formation of the self, memory and identity, the boundaries of individuality, and the possibility of artificial consciousness.

At the center of PAH is a different way of approaching one of philosophy’s oldest problems: if awareness is fundamental, how does it become a particular perspective?

How does awareness become you?