Is your brain a computer or a quantum orchestra tuned to the universe?

Voxel (an Amadeus Company), in collaboration with The Festival of Consciousness 2024, would like to invite you to this special session with Stuart Hameroff.

Stuart Hameroff MD is Professor at the Arizona Astrobiology Center, Anesthesiology & Psychology, and Director of the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Retired from Anesthesiology where he researched how general anesthetic gases act on quantum vibrations in microtubules to prevent consciousness. Hameroff is known for his collaboration with British physicist and Nobel Laureate Sir Roger Penrose on the ‘Orch OR’ quantum theory of consciousness, and also for managing ‘The Science of Consciousness’ conferences for the past 30 years. Hameroff is also collaborating with Planetary Scientist Professor Dante Lauretta at Arizona AstroBiology Center (AABC) to study putative ‘signs of life’ and ‘roots of consciousness’ in extraterrestrial organic molecules from the early solar system retrieved by Dante’s NASA OSIRIS REx mission to asteroid Bennu. We will probe these molecules to answer the question: Which came first, life or consciousness?

Most view the brain as a complex neural computer, consciousness emerging as a higher order effect. However, the ‘Orch OR’ theory, thant suggests consciousness is fundamental and is enabled by quantum non-local processes occurring in microtubules inside neurons .

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