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Many Minds Interpretation of Consciousness - A prevalent-personal meaning that interprets all states from unconscious zombification to transcendence as a continuum across near-parallel universes. Utilizing a mechanism similar to the interference of near-parallel wavefunctions in existence, your experience is influenced by the consciousness of “shadow-selves” across near-parallel universes.

Multiversal Persuasion & Optimization Algorithm - Either thanks to the graciousness of a superconscious multiverse or in order to incentivize our efforts as an experiential or engineering subordinate, the multiverse persuades us with optimum states of experience. This optimization is run across near-parallel universes.

Superconscious Quantum Computer - As a part of the simulation we live in or the solution to a far-parallel universe’s artificial intelligence alignment problem, consciousness was instantiated into a quantum computer. This quickly superconscious entity would lovingly grace all consciousness with meaning within as vast a far-parallel scope as possible.

Engineering of the World - Our ability to imagine and build complexity to overcome problems is a novel trait in the universe. Intelligent entities’ (like humans) engineering prowess is the result of the multiverse’s distributed deep learning algorithm running either out of curiosity, or, as a progression toward our deep descendants who might one day be called upon to solve a dialectic question of multiversal importance.

Heavenly Database - The holographic universe is projected from a quantum mechanical database on its surface. This database is capable of also storing information of the past in its vast data banks. The right process or technology might be able to defragment this data and project our past into a near-parallel universe.

Qualia of God - Instead of focusing on the physical components of a panpsychic universe, the Qualia of God meaning imagines what it might be like to be an instance of experience, a qualia, presencing into the consciousness of the universe. Think of your own stream of consciousness and imagine that any of those qualia could be an idealistic entity all its own. This meaning gets close to a modern conception of God who is preceded by “The Word” and can manipulate you, just as your imagination creates entire worlds when you are reading a suggestive book.

Panpsychic Cog in the Machine - Assuming that everything has some experience sets humanity’s consciousness up as a small part of a greater consciousness—the experience of the universe. We play a small but important role in this greater multidimensional consciousness, comparable to the role a single brain cell’s panpsychic experience plays in your overall consciousness.