Diamond Mind #9: Stuart Hameroff on Pleasure, Evolution, Microtubules and Consciousness
Stuart Hameroff takes us on a mind-expanding journey through his revolutionary theory of consciousness, drawing from his 49 years as an anesthesiologist and decades of groundbreaking research into the quantum foundations of awareness. Challenging the dominant view that the brain is merely a classical computer and neurons are simple switches, Hameroff reveals how microtubules—protein structures inside neurons—perform quantum computations that may be the actual basis of conscious experie...