During the experiment, small sensors were carefully placed on the brains of seven terminally ill patients who were expected to pass away within minutes.
The highly sensitive devices monitored each patient’s vital signs, capturing their blood pressure and heart activity up until the moment everything came to a complete stop.
Hameroff explained with Project Unity: “They saw everything go away and then [psh] you got this activity when there was no blood pressure, no heart rate.”
According to Dr. Hameroff, this unusual activity could represent consciousness departing from the body. He suggests that this is actually ‘the last thing to go’ during the process of dying.
He further elaborated: “The point is it shows that consciousness is actually, probably, a very low energy process,”
“This has been a fairly reproducible event, not 100% like 50% of patients show this when you measure it.”
Discussing this theory in the documentary series Through the Wormhole, which aired on The Science Channel, Hameroff stated: “Let’s say the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing; the microtubules lose their quantum state.”
“The quantum information within the microtubules is not destroyed, it can’t be destroyed, and it just distributes and dissipates to the universe at large.”
“If they’re not revived, and the patient dies, it’s possible that this quantum information can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul.”
In their groundbreaking research, the scientists ultimately concluded: “In our critical care practice, we spend a significant amount of time with grieving families. In these interactions, we have found that the idea that ‘something’ happens at the time of death is comforting to the families.”
