Recent discoveries in neuroscience support a twenty-year-old controversial theory of consciousness entitled Orch-OR that states that consciousness does not emerge from complex computational activities inside the brain, as it was previously thought, but rather it emanates from quantum vibrations inside the microtubules. These microtubules are microscopic tubular structures present inside brain neurons. According to this theory, developed by Sir Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, consciousness exists as quantum information everywhere in the universe; we are merely the receivers of it rather than the creators. The title of the work is borrowed from a term first coined by the French Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin who believed that Omega Point “is the purported maximum level of complexity and consciousness towards which some believe the universe is evolving”. The title Omega Point is used here to suggest that, based on the theory by Sir Roger Penrose and Stuart Hameroff, consciousness has already reached that level of maximum complexity and already exists as a force that encompasses the universe.
Omega Point invites the participants to perceive themselves as part of a cybernetic universe of infinite quantum information feedback loops.
Video and photography by Charlie McKay
