Discover 3

Fellow scientists labeled

him a crackpot. Now

STUART HAMEROFF’S

quantum consciousness

theories are getting

support from unlikely

places.

BY STEVE VOLK

PHOTO BY STEVE CRAFT

DOWN THE

QUANTUM

R ABBIT HOLE

March 2018^ DISCOVER^41

Anesthesiologist Stuart

Hameroff believes tiny

structures in our cells

called microtubules could

explain consciousness.