Tegmark published a paper which largely refutes the idea that neurons use quantum interference to perform any useful computation:
http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9907009 In short, the brain is far to hot and uncontrolled to maintain decoherence for the time periods involved in neural processes. The appeal for this idea comes from the belief that the brain is too complex to just be a machine, and must be something much more, but the brain is far more complex than any other machine we are familiar with, with 100 billion neurons and 10^15 synapses. It is, however, interesting that while quantum mechanics doesn't explain consciousness, Bruno's UDA shows how consciousness might explain quantum mechanics. Jason On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 6:35 AM, ronaldheld <ronaldh...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/quant-ph/pdf/0205/0205092v8.pdf > Bruno(and anyone else) > Ronald > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<everything-list%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To post to this group, send email to everything-l...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list?hl=en.
