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EXCERPTS: In an intriguing new study, physicists using modified MRI machines say they may have found quantum entanglement between the heart and brain. These results suggest that the human brain operating like a quantum system could be the ticket to eventually solving the elusive, hard problem of consciousness.
“I actually was working on this for a long time,” Dr. Christian Kerskens, the lead physicist at the Institute of Neurosciences at Trinity College Dublin, told Salon. “I think if you ask, most neuroscientists — or even physicists — they would say that it’s not possible to find entanglement in the brain. [However] when I studied the dynamics of blood flow, I thought something [is] going on there that you can’t really explain with just classical physics.”
[...] Understanding the realm of quantum mechanics is equally a mysterious and vexing conundrum as the baffling hard problem of consciousness.
At the macroscopic scale or the larger world we interact with daily, objects are well-defined and can be accurately measured by the principles of classical physics.
However, at the microscopic level, things suddenly become unpredictable, with atoms, electrons, or particles demonstrating the ability to display characteristics of both waves and particles without fixed location. This is the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.
Under a proposition called “quantum mind theory,” some have proposed that quantum mechanics, and bizarre phenomena like entanglement and superposition, may ultimately hold the key to answering the hard problem of consciousness.
This theory has yet to gain much traction in the greater scientific community, with most neuroscientists or physicists believing that consciousness occurs through classical physics and not on the quantum level.
Testing quantum mind theory is also a challenging venture because it requires being able to measure brain activity at the microscopic level.
Undeterred by this daunting challenge, Dr. Kerskens and his co-author Dr. David López Pérez of the Polish Academy of Sciences, decided to borrow an experimental model typically used to explore quantum gravity to see if the evidence of quantum behavior could be detected in the brain... (MORE - missing details)
EXCERPTS: In an intriguing new study, physicists using modified MRI machines say they may have found quantum entanglement between the heart and brain. These results suggest that the human brain operating like a quantum system could be the ticket to eventually solving the elusive, hard problem of consciousness.
“I actually was working on this for a long time,” Dr. Christian Kerskens, the lead physicist at the Institute of Neurosciences at Trinity College Dublin, told Salon. “I think if you ask, most neuroscientists — or even physicists — they would say that it’s not possible to find entanglement in the brain. [However] when I studied the dynamics of blood flow, I thought something [is] going on there that you can’t really explain with just classical physics.”
[...] Understanding the realm of quantum mechanics is equally a mysterious and vexing conundrum as the baffling hard problem of consciousness.
At the macroscopic scale or the larger world we interact with daily, objects are well-defined and can be accurately measured by the principles of classical physics.
However, at the microscopic level, things suddenly become unpredictable, with atoms, electrons, or particles demonstrating the ability to display characteristics of both waves and particles without fixed location. This is the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.
Under a proposition called “quantum mind theory,” some have proposed that quantum mechanics, and bizarre phenomena like entanglement and superposition, may ultimately hold the key to answering the hard problem of consciousness.
This theory has yet to gain much traction in the greater scientific community, with most neuroscientists or physicists believing that consciousness occurs through classical physics and not on the quantum level.
Testing quantum mind theory is also a challenging venture because it requires being able to measure brain activity at the microscopic level.
Undeterred by this daunting challenge, Dr. Kerskens and his co-author Dr. David López Pérez of the Polish Academy of Sciences, decided to borrow an experimental model typically used to explore quantum gravity to see if the evidence of quantum behavior could be detected in the brain... (MORE - missing details)