While scientists are still in heated debates about what exactly consciousness is, the University of Arizona’s Stuart Hameroff and British physicist Sir Roger Penrose conclude that it is information stored at a quantum level. Penrose agrees --he and his team have found evidence that "protein-based microtubules—a structural component of human cells—carry quantum information— information stored at a sub-atomic level.”
Penrose argues that if a person temporarily dies, this
quantum information is released from the microtubules and into the universe.
However, if they are resuscitated the quantum information is channeled back
into the microtubules and that is what sparks a near death experience. “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.
Researchers from the renowned Max Planck Institute for
Physics in Munich are in agreement with Penrose that the physical universe that
we live in is only our perception and once our physical bodies die, there is an
infinite beyond. Some believe that consciousness travels to parallel universes
after death.