Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/brain-consciousness-quantum-entanglement/

by ngrilly • 4 years ago

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breck• 4 years ago

Man this sounds really interesting but just pains me to read ad filled junk. Is there a Scroll version?

If you are in firefox, use ReaderView. or Chrome-based browsers, there's a plugin (forgot which) which silences that junk.

yarg• 4 years ago

Those "the secret" people are going to have a lot of fun misinterpreting this.

TheLoafOfBread• 4 years ago

If that's true, does it mean that AI (AGI) which really understand what is it doing is basically impossible without quantum computer or network of quantum computers?

thro1• 4 years ago

Consider first that every neuron in the brain has unique DNA and ancestorship (comparing brain to some simulation). No, it doesn't mean that, I believe consciousnes can emerge in some other way which doesn't care about computations, neither need quantum entanglement.

rolenthedeep• 4 years ago

Terrible headline.

The experiment suggests that certain brain functions use quantum effects. Extrapolating this to mean consciousness is quantum is just shitty journalism

v0idzer0• 4 years ago

Or good journalism if you consider engagement a measure of success like journalists do…

pulvinar• 4 years ago

I believe this is the relevant paper: "Experimental evidence of non-classical brain functions" by Christian Kerskens and David López Pérez, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.07998.pdf

I'll wait for this to be properly critiqued, but to me it looks like a chain of very dubious connections.

ngrilly• 4 years ago

Thanks for the link. And the paper is not particularly well structured and written either. I'd also like to see it reviewed by other experts in this field.

Brain experiment suggests that consciousness relies on quantum entanglement

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