Philosophy Study, December 2023, Vol. 13, No. 12, 538-557 doi: 10.17265/2159-5313/2023.12.003 From the Consciousness Field to the Constitution of Society Paul C. Mocombe West Virginia State University, West Virginia, USA The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc., Florida, USA This work explores the phenomenological structural basis of Mocombe’s consciousness field theory. The paper critically assesses Mocombe’s consciousness field theory within the larger body of contemporary ontological debates regarding the nature, origin, and constitution of consciousness in the universe. The work goes on to highlight how human consciousness and society are constituted from Mocombe’s consciousness field to societal social structure, which Mocombe calls social class language game. Keywords: structuration theory, phenomenological structuralism, structure/agency, mythopraxis, quantum mechanics, social class language game, Haitian Epistemology, Haitian/Vilokan Idealism, consciousness field theory Introduction The literature on the ontological nature and origins of consciousness suggests a reliance on material and post-material theorizations regarding the nature and origins of consciousness; those perspectives that view consciousness as emerging primarily as an emergent property of complex brain neuronal computation (A), (B) as spiritual quality of the universe, distinct from purely physical actions, and (C) as composed of discrete “proto- conscious” events acting in accordance with physical laws not yet fully understood. The former, (A), is a materialist perspective, which emphasizes the laws of classical physics to posit consciousness as the by-product of the neural correlates of the physical substrates of the material brain (Chalmers, 1996). The latter two (B and C) are post-materialist approaches to understanding consciousness, which emphasize the emergence of consciousness as an external phenomenon that exists outside of the physical substrates of the brain either in the form of panpsychism or cosmopsychism/panspiritism. Both post-materialist perspectives use the concepts and theories of quantum mechanics (i.e., superposition, entanglement, multiverse, etc.) to either complete the materialism of the (A) camp, i.e., the (C) camp, or to ground 14 paranormal and parapsychological (near-death experiences, telepathy, telekinesis, out-of-body experiences, physic mediumship, etc.) empirical data as proof for the external nature of consciousness, i.e., the (B) camp, which is received and facilitated by the brain (Chalmers, 1996; van Lommel, 2010; Mocombe, 2021b; 2021a). All three positions are problematic in that they are unable to resolve the quantum decoherence and hard and binding problems of consciousness, however (Chalmers, 1996). In the materialist camp (A), they are unable to account for how the neural correlates of the physical substrates of the material brain bind to give us the phenomenal subjective experience of consciousness. Just the same, in the post-materialist camps (B and C), they are unable to account for the quantum decoherence problematic; that is, the latter position is unable to account Paul C. Mocombe, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy and Sociology, West Virginia State University, West Virginia; The Mocombeian Foundation, Inc., Florida, USA. DAVID PUBLISHING D