Why You Should Care About Quantum Neuroscience
Really a survey of stuff we've talked about, just interesting to see one neuroscientist['s] perspective on the idea.
Quote:Which brings us to the intersection of Quantum science and neurobiology. The human brain is a far more powerful processor than any computer available today: does it achieve some of this awesome power by harnessing quantum weirdness in the same way that quantum computers do?
Up until very recently, physicists’ answer to that question has been a resounding “No.”
Quote:Now, just because quantum biology in the brain sounds weird and improbable doesn’t automatically qualify it to be the source of the next giant leap forward in neuroscience. But I have a hunch that a deeper understanding of quantum effects in living systems will yield important new insights about our brains and nervous systems, if for no other reason, that adopting a quantum point of view will cause neuroscientists to look for answers in strange and wonderful places they never considered investigating before.
Really a survey of stuff we've talked about, just interesting to see one neuroscientist['s] perspective on the idea.
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
(This post was last modified: 2019-01-03, 10:37 PM by Sciborg_S_Patel.)
- Bertrand Russell
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