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Ever since the 1930s, when Schrödinger and Einstein discussed the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat Schrödinger’s cat] thought experiment, there has been the idea that somehow consciousness may have something to do with Quantum Mechanics (QM). Accordingly MCS includes a number of research directions involving QM. The two main Two significant possibilities appear to be that either some kind of consciousness-like property of certain configurations of matter collapses wave functions (a refinement of the role of the observer in the Schrödinger’s cat thought experiment) or that wave function collapse plays a part in how consciousness happens(collapse causes consciousness). Alternatives to these ideas also exist<ref name=Atmanspacher2020> Atmanspacher, H. (2020), Quantum Approaches to Consciousness, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL=<https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2020/entries/qt-consciousness/></ref> and have been researched by numerous scholars. Researchers in MCS thus continue to narrow down the theoretical possibilities.