This book presents a precise, testable framework for understanding awareness as a harmonic field embedded in a rendered universe. Built on Rendered Frame Theory (RFT), it treats reality as a sequence of "frames" shaped by deformation rules and anchored by observers, rather than a fixed, indifferent space-time block.
Within that setting, consciousness is defined mathematically. The book introduces a structured set of variables—observer coupling, effective frame time, coherence indices, anchor density, and coupling parameters—that together describe how awareness stabilises, fragments, or disappears. States of mind such as wakefulness, sleep, dreaming, focus, and altered states are recast as field configurations, not vague labels.
From there, the work moves through three major domains:
- Consciousness science - harmonic field equations, state-space dynamics, laboratory probes using EEG/coherence, and explicit falsifiability conditions.
- Synthetic minds - NexFrame as an implementation of the same mathematics in artificial architectures, with internal coherence metrics and observer-like coupling.
- Cosmology - an updated RFT cosmology where observer fields and large-scale structure share the same harmonic backbone, connecting local awareness to redshift and structure formation.
Supported by a chain of Zenodo and preprint archives, Consciousness: The Harmonic Field serves as a codex for RFT's consciousness work: a neutral, fully structured reference for researchers, builders, and anyone willing to treat consciousness as something that can be written in equations, tested in experiments, and linked directly to the physics of the universe.
