Jesse Michels

I see one Andre.

I don't see a probability function of Andres.

And it's a really important question, and most physicists...

would never dare to try to even broach that topic.

But he wrote a couple of books on it.

And he says that microtubules, which are part of the cytoskeleton of a lot of cells and neurons specifically, basically...

they are involved in wave function collapse.

And they can maintain some sort of coherence, and then they decohere, and boom, you snap, you see reality.

You see kind of an eigenstate, like a specific state of reality.

You don't see the wave function anymore.

And

I don't know if that is correct.

I find it fascinating that if you shut the microtubules down with anesthesia, a body could be fully functioning, but just consciousness seems to turn off, which is why Penrose partnered with Stuart Hameroff, this anesthesiologist, on his theory.

But let's just say that maybe something quantum is going in in the brain.

That might sound kind of woo-woo or new-agey, but quantum biology is literally a burgeoning field.

We know photosynthesis and enzyme creation.

We know that those things involve quantum effects.

So we think of the body as warm, wet, and noisy, you know, kind of more akin to kind of decoherence and not maintaining quantum coherence.

But that is over and over again getting proven wrong, you know?

And so, okay, so let's just assume maybe something quantum is happening in the brain, and that explains why we see kind of discrete macroscopic reality, right?