The negative charge of electrons holds them in their orbits. If you measure one of the two, the other will be affected instantaneously, even though they may be hundreds of thousands of miles away. How it happens remains a mystery. He believes it is the ground of consciousness as well as the ground of inanimate matter. Well what fun.
Scientists comes down on both sides of the issue today.
Some say consciousness is an accident of our biology. I enjoy playing with the ideas - noticing the correlations between what happens at the quantum level with what spiritual leaders have said for centuries. The Buddha said, the mind is all. The gospel writer John described the Logos or universal Mind which is the origin of everything. We humans, beings of light, long for physical light.