Stuart Hameroff at HowTheLightGetsIn – London 2024

On September 21–22, 2024, Dr. Stuart Hameroff spoke at the HowTheLightGetsIn Festival in London, presenting “Quantum Collapse Holds the Key to Consciousness” for IAI TV. In his talk, Hameroff argued that by studying anesthesia, we can understand what disappears in the brain when the “light of consciousness” fades, revealing clues to its quantum foundations.

The festival also featured high-profile debates and discussions, including:

• Quantum and the Unknowable Universe – Philosopher Slavoj Žižek, physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, and Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose debated whether quantum mechanics renders the universe fundamentally unknowable.
• The Divided Self – Neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris and Nobel Laureate Roger Penrose joined live to explore whether human identity is fundamentally split.

The event brought together leading thinkers across philosophy, neuroscience, and physics to grapple with some of the deepest mysteries of mind and reality.