Abstract The "Hard Problem of Consciousness"—the question of why physical matter gives rise to subjective experience—remains unsolved by modern materialist neuroscience. This paper proposes the Conscious Misplacement Theory (CMT) as a functional solution. CMT posits that consciousness is not generated by the brain, but is a non-local, fundamental signal (The Source) and that the brain functions as a biological transceiver (The Antenna). By redefining biological survival as Signal Interference (The Storm), CMT explains why humans experience a unique sense of existential "misplacement" and provides a testable framework for tracing the origin of the conscious signal back to its universal headquarters.
Terrance Dontavion Moore (Mon,) studied this question.