[rcxdude]

There is a (decidedly non-mainstream) idea that brain processes involve large-scale quantum effects, that quantum effects beyond just the normally expected biochemistry are essential to the functioning of the brain. There's not really much empirical evidence for it, and about the only theoretical argument is that the brain is much more efficient than a computer. I think people tend to like it because it makes brains (or more specifically human minds) feel more special.

[jncfhnb]

Quantum mechanics and consciousness are both weird and therefore are equivalent

[Flop7331]

I saw that movie. It also tried to put water memory across as fact.

[zoklet-enjoyer]

There's a guy in Twitter who thinks that the brain is an antenna that receives consciousness, or something like that. I'll see if I can find it, but it's kind of hard to navigate Twitter since I got banned.

Edit: I couldn't find it. Something about microtubules

[michaelcampbell]

One of "those guys" is Sir Roger Penrose.

A quick search on "microtubule consciousness" brings forth an enormous amount of spilled digital ink on the subject.

Sabine Hossenfelder had a "science daily" video about it recently on Youtube. Worth a watch/listen.

https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/05/brain-really-uses-...

[wizzwizz4]

Are these microtubules located in the Pineal gland?

[zoklet-enjoyer]

Everywhere

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30453-2