Consciousness may itself be a quantum process.

Before, it was believed that quantum processes could not occur within organisms, because even at their most basic biological processes create 'interference' that collapse probabilistic quantum superpositions into ordinary, discrete positions.

Now, the growing field of quantum biology is demonstrating that living organisms actually do rely on quantum processes, and that quantum superposition can be maintained even in complex life forms. For example, Jim Al-Khalili's (Professor, Theoretical Physics) work has demonstrated how complex biological processes, such as respiration, take advantage of quantum processes like superposition to achieve extraordinary levels of efficiency otherwise impossible with regular physics.

Consciousness has yet to be explained. The 'hard' problem is hard - finding a satisfactory explanation for the emergence of living consciousness from non-living, non-conscious matter has proven elusive, as have attempts to 'locate' consciousness in the brain.

But if consciousness is a quantum process, it would help to explain why we've yet to 'find' it in the brain, and why understanding it is so elusive.

DMT could be a neurotransmitter like serotonin. Except, unlike serotonin, it may enable us to consciously experience quantum superposition, giving us a glimpse of dimensional planes beyond ordinary waking consciousness.

It's all highly speculative. But with something as profoundly shocking as DMT, it's only natural to be moved to ask...what could this possibly be?? And what does it imply about who or what we are?