- The idea that consciousness is a quantum process facilitated by microtubules in brain's nerve cells. - The microtubules allow for quantum properties by protecting from heat and other environmental factors. - With quantum properties for consciousness our imagination could be viewed as a sort of superposition or entanglement with other universes. ---- "The new work builds upon a theory Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose, Ph.D., and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff, M.D., first posited in the 1990s: the Orchestrated Objective Reduction theory (Orch OR). Broadly, it claims that consciousness is a quantum process facilitated by microtubules in the brain’s nerve cells. - [Link](https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a45574179/architecture-of-consciousness/) Penrose and Hameroff suggested that consciousness is a quantum wave that passes through these microtubules. And that, like every quantum wave, it has properties like superposition (the ability to be in many places at the same time) and entanglement (the potential for two particles that are very far away to be connected)." - [Link](https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a45574179/architecture-of-consciousness/)