Own Consciousness Can Interact with the Universe, Scientists Believe

Highly relevant webcomic: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smbc-comics.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;the-talk-3" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.smbc-comics.com&#x2F;comic&#x2F;the-talk-3</a><p>(Particularly the last three panels.)

Consciousness being quantum would at least explain qualia. It would be easy to say feeling is simply a new quantum field unbeknownst to us instead of an (as of yet unexplained) emergent property of the currently known fields and their fluctuations.

The problem with these stories is they end up with Gwyneth Paltrow and other wellness grifters selling a magic quantum consciousness powder.

I want this to be true way too much for it to really be true.

Everything everyone does interacts with the universe…<p>Certainly what you think about alters what you will then do in the future so even thought is not isolated from reality.

Those microtubules don&#x27;t necessarily contain consciousness. They may as well be antennas that connect consciousness with the brain.

Why are these scientists so desperate for a Magical Quantum Solution to consciousness? Shouldn&#x27;t they first disprove the much more likely hypothesis that consciousness is an emergent property of the (macro level) structure and operation of the brain?