00:00Four billion years ago, the asteroid Bennu formed in the early solar system.
00:05Now there have been samples returned from that asteroid and they're showing organic compounds
00:10that are the building blocks of life itself. But some scientists actually think that there's
00:15something stranger going on in the compounds in Bennu, that they could have the building blocks
00:20of consciousness. That's because they think some of these compounds might be exhibiting signs of
00:26quantum processes, which one consciousness theory says your brain uses to tap into an external form
00:36of consciousness. Now if this theory is true, that could mean that the roots of consciousness
00:41are actually older than life itself.
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