Conscious Quantum Field Hypothesis (CQFH) v2.5

The Conscious Quantum Field Hypothesis (CQFH v2.5) proposes that consciousness is fundamentally a real, ultralight scalar field C(x,t) sustained by coherent tubulin dipoles in neuronal microtubules and topologically protected at helical lattice vertices and 3-start seams. The field is driven by 40 Hz microtubule phonons and orchestrated by low-frequency neural oscillations (0.1–10 Hz), vagally mediated theta rhythms (4–8 Hz) via the gut-brain axis, and delta synchrony (1–4 Hz), with secondary alpha/beta cross-frequency support. Quantum superpositions grow until gravitational self-energy reaches the Penrose threshold Eg ≈ ℏ/tc, triggering objective reduction into discrete conscious moments.Coherence persists 80–500 µs at physiological temperature through a combination of decoherence-free subspaces, Fröhlich condensation, ordered-water shielding, actin isolation, piezoelectric effects, continuous re-coherence, and topological protection. Key 2025 evidence includes anesthetic disruption of microtubule quantum states, theta-orchestrated gamma readout in insight and memory, dopaminergic modulation, and cosmic tryptophan abundance.CQFH v2.5 presents a fully gauge-invariant scalar-field formulation complementary to Orchestrated Objective Reduction, with the scalar field as the fundamental conscious entity and gravitational collapse as the objective quantum-to-classical transition. Ten falsifiable experiments (2025–2027) using THz spectroscopy, EEG, quantum optogenetics, and neuroimaging test the predictions. Extensions to nonlocal effects remain speculative (UCQFH).Keywords: intuition, quantum consciousness, scalar field, Orchestrated Objective Reduction, microtubules, gravitational objective reduction, topological protection, theta-gamma coupling, gut-brain axis, tryptophan superradiance, biophoton emission, quantum entanglement, integrated information, conscious moments