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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — HN submission

Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:41:03 GMT

The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes – Max Tegmark (1999)

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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — mentioned by lainon

Wed, 07 Nov 2018 12:20:03 GMT

I am myself skeptic of this. First of all - How does on control indeterminism? And does QM indeterminism really play a role on a neuronal level? This paper by Tegmark argues it doesn't - https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9907009

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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — mentioned by bascule

Fri, 29 Jun 2018 16:42:14 GMT

There have been some poorly received hypotheses to this effect, most notably Roger Penrose's Orch-OR: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestrated_objective_reducti... That said, most attempts at quantifying whether or not distinctly quantum mechanical processes in the brain related to things like microtubules and NMDA receptors are significant to cognition (i.e. is the brain a quantum computer?) have generally concluded the answer is no: See: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9907009 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15516709cog...

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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — HN submission

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 17:07:56 GMT

The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes (1999)

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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — HN submission

Sun, 03 Sep 2017 19:52:46 GMT

The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes (1999)

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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — mentioned by luikore

Mon, 05 Aug 2013 10:31:12 GMT

It's Penrose's view that a brain is quantum, but this paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9907009v2.pdf shows human brain is more classical than quantum. Maybe the simulation algorithm is the thing that needs improvement. Some day one finds a way to reduce the complexity an order of magnitude, then the era of human brain is over.

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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — mentioned by bascule

Mon, 18 Feb 2013 22:48:37 GMT

According to Max Tegmark's calculations, the importance of quantum mechanical effects on brain processes is negligible: http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9907009 This paper posits the brain can be modeled as a classical (e.g. Newtonian, "billiard ball"-style) physical system

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The importance of quantum decoherence in brain processes — mentioned by duaneb

Sun, 25 Mar 2012 03:30:00 GMT

Penrose's The Emperor's New Mind addresses this idea. Basically, Penrose assumes that: 1. Gödel's Incompleteness Theorems are equivalent to the halting problem (provable) 2. If the human mind is deterministic, it can be modeled with a deterministic algorithm (provable). 3. The human mind seems to be capable of proving arbitrary things about all algorithms (debatable; I'm extremely skeptical). 4. Therefore, the human mind is not bound by the halting theorem, and therefore the human mind is not deterministic. He then draws several possible speculations. 1, the human mind is driven by quantum…

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