Originally Posted by Notamongoose

The idea of the position of planets affecting us as humans had always seemed to me to be a ridiculous one. I began to realise it might be true when reading about 2012, but the clincher for me was a book by Sir Roger Penrose, "Shadows of the Mind". In it, he presents a candidate for the source of consciousness within the human mind: "large-scale quantum-coherent behaviour occurring within the microtubules of the cytoskeletons of neurons". The microtubules exhibit quantam computing behaviour, and, crucially, their structure is so fine that minute gravitational changes during their creation, such as the alignment of planets, can have an effect.