The Foundation for Reality Advancement
A research foundation for the questions science has left open.
Read the researchThe problem
Consciousness science has more than 400 theories on the table. Some say the brain produces experience. Some say experience is fundamental. A survey by Robert Kuhn maps them all and ranks none.
Kuhn, Landscape of Consciousness.
Key insight
02 / Why we exist
Test
The test kept changing.
No two studies measured the same thing.
Scoring
The scorers knew the answer.
They were measuring their own expectation.
Misses
The misses stayed in the drawer.
Nobody could tell how often it failed.
Key insight
The Foundation for Reality Advancement is an independent research organization founded by Patrick Hogue. We bring questions once thought of as metaphysical into empirical investigation: one standard, applied in the open, with its limits published.
See what we doStep 1
Map
State each theory's claims in plain, common terms.
Step 2
Measure
Score it on the Continuum Standard: six steps, from naming what would prove a theory wrong to surviving a test its critics designed.
Step 3
Record
Publish the score with its count, its source and its limits.
Source
The Continuum Standard, Read the method.
Why limits matter
04 / What we do not claim
That consciousness has been explained.
That a high score means a theory is true. A score measures how testable it is.
Medical, psychological or spiritual advice.
That anything beyond physics has been shown. Nothing counts until a second laboratory gets the same result.
Key insight
Every result carries how many were counted, where the evidence came from, and what it cannot show.
See the work so farEvery result shows
05 / Work so far
First results, a method others can check, and an outside lab scheduled to repeat it in 2027.
Published
The Continuum Standard
Presented
The Science of Consciousness 2026, San Diego
Companion paper
October 12, 2026
Evidence · figure 1
25 of 50 have never been tested.
Fifty is a sample of the field, not all of it. Scores measure how testable a theory is, not whether it is right.
Source: Hogue, The Continuum Standard for Theory Progression Across Kuhn's Landscape of Consciousness. Continuous Being Theory is scored last and counted separately, at Level 5.
Research
The method, the data and the limitations, beside the findings.
Poster 890
The Science of Consciousness 2026, San Diego.
06 / What is planned
In the order we expect to finish.
A Continuous Being, Book One Q1 2027
Tells the story and prints our predictions before any result.
Checked by an outside lab 2027
The University of Virginia repeats the work with its own staff and scorers.
Earth telepathy test 2027
Plan published before the first trial. Two laboratories. Skeptics sign it first. Mars follows.
Later
A companion app and a film are at concept stage. They depend on the research holding up, and neither has a date.
Meet the peopleApp
Concept stage
Film
Concept stage
07 / The people
Patrick Hogue serves as the Foundation’s Chief Science Officer and leads its scientific research and development. A theoretician, he previously developed lithium extraction facilities in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where he established two industry world records. He is the creator of the Continuum Standard, which he presented at The Science of Consciousness 2026.
How we work
We set our own questions and standards.
Methods and data are public.
When our results change, we say what changed.
08 / The invitation
We want to hear from researchers who will test the method, writers who will explain it accurately, and skeptics willing to sign a protocol before the run. Disagreement that points to evidence is the most useful thing we can get.
We are still asking. Come ask with us.
The Foundation for Reality Advancement
A research foundation for the questions science has left open.
Read the researchThe problem
Consciousness science has more than 400 theories on the table. Some say the brain produces experience. Some say experience is fundamental. A survey by Robert Kuhn maps them all and ranks none.
Kuhn, Landscape of Consciousness.
Key insight
02 / Why we exist
Test
The test kept changing.
No two studies measured the same thing.
Scoring
The scorers knew the answer.
They were measuring their own expectation.
Misses
The misses stayed in the drawer.
Nobody could tell how often it failed.
Key insight
The Foundation for Reality Advancement is an independent research organization founded by Patrick Hogue. We bring questions once thought of as metaphysical into empirical investigation: one standard, applied in the open, with its limits published.
Step 1
Map
State each theory's claims in plain, common terms.
Step 2
Measure
Score it on the Continuum Standard: six steps, from naming what would prove a theory wrong to surviving a test its critics designed.
Step 3
Record
Publish the score with its count, its source and its limits.
Source. The Continuum Standard, Read the method.
Why limits matter
04 / What we do not claim
That consciousness has been explained.
That a high score means a theory is true. A score measures how testable it is.
Medical, psychological or spiritual advice.
That anything beyond physics has been shown. Nothing counts until a second laboratory gets the same result.
Key insight
Every result carries how many were counted, where the evidence came from, and what it cannot show.
Every result shows
05 / Work so far
First results, a method others can check, and an outside lab scheduled to repeat it in 2027.
Published
The Continuum Standard
Presented
The Science of Consciousness 2026, San Diego
Companion paper
October 12, 2026
Evidence · figure 1
25 of 50 have never been tested.
Fifty is a sample of the field, not all of it. Scores measure how testable a theory is, not whether it is right.
Source: Hogue, The Continuum Standard for Theory Progression Across Kuhn's Landscape of Consciousness. Continuous Being Theory is scored last and counted separately, at Level 5.
The invitation to check
Research
The method, the data and the limitations, beside the findings.
Poster 890
The Science of Consciousness 2026, San Diego.
06 / What is planned
In the order we expect to finish.
A Continuous Being, Book One
Q1 2027
Tells the story and prints our predictions before any result.
Checked by an outside lab
2027
The University of Virginia repeats the work with its own staff and scorers.
Earth telepathy test
2027
Plan published before the first trial. Two laboratories. Skeptics sign it first. Mars follows.
Later
A companion app and a film are at concept stage. They depend on the research holding up, and neither has a date.
07 / The people
Patrick Hogue serves as the Foundation’s Chief Science Officer and leads its scientific research and development. A theoretician, he previously developed lithium extraction facilities in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where he established two industry world records. He is the creator of the Continuum Standard, which he presented at The Science of Consciousness 2026.
How we work
We set our own questions and standards.
Methods and data are public.
When our results change, we say what changed.
08 / The invitation
We want to hear from researchers who will test the method, writers who will explain it accurately, and skeptics willing to sign a protocol before the run. Disagreement that points to evidence is the most useful thing we can get.
We are still asking. Come ask with us.
The Foundation for Reality Advancement
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