Hmmm. This is feeling like a monologue. I was hoping for a little help here. Perhaps this is one of those times when a fool must talk with himself.
The reason I think this new perspective is important, is because it turns the tables on what we consider permanent and what transient. Currently when we think about matter-light interactions, our inclination is to think that matter is stable and permanent and that light is transient. This theory implies the opposite--that light is stable and permanent and matter is transient.
I am intrigued with the work of Fritz Albert Popp and the International Institute of Biophysics. Popp describes light-matter interactions that occur at the cellular level in living tissues. These electromagnetic fields are almost entirely coherent. He calls this coherent field "biophotons", or a "biophotonic field" and makes a strong case that biophotons are not associated with waste, but on the contrary are intrinsic to the workings of the organism. He concludes in an
online paper that "a great deal of work has to be done in order to reveal the molecular basis of biophoton emission."
Perhaps just the opposite is true. Perhaps the coherent biophotonic field is the basis for molecular structure.
I would argue that these coherent biophotonic fields are the patterns from which organized physiological forms arise. These fields are stable 4d patterns. What we see in the 3d universe is an exposed surface of each 4d pattern divided by time. I would also argue that the thing we call consciousness arises from this 4d pattern of coherent light. In other words, consciousness is not a byproduct of the brain, the brain is a byproduct of consciousness (the biophotonic field).