'...Stuart Hameroff argues that consciousness predates life, originating in the quantum states of microtubules within cells.
Did consciousness spark the evolution of life?
Many scientists, operating with a materialist worldview, argue that consciousness emerges out of inanimate molecules. In contrast, Roger Penrose's longtime collaborator, Stuart Hameroff, puts forward the controversial case that consciousness precedes life and that we have evidence for this from a recent NASA experiment.
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Stuart Hameroff is an American anesthesiologist and professor at the University of Arizona known for his studies of consciousness and his controversial claim, alongside Sir Roger Penrose, that consciousness originates from quantum states in neural microtubules.
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00:00 When did consciousness appear on Earth?
00:20 The role of microtubules in the brain
01:50 Roger Penrose, the collapse of the wave function, and quantum consciousness
03:59 Superposition and the conscious universe
07:17 Quantum states in microtubules
08:19 Consciousness and the origins of life
11:55 The quantum pleasure principle...'