Yes, look into Stuart Hameroff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff who thought of quantum effects thro

Yes, look into Stuart Hameroff, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Hameroff who thought of quantum effects through neural microtubules independently of Roger Penrose in 1987 whose work from 1989 inspired Neal Stephenson. Neal wrote on his website in the Acknowledgements section: "1. Penrose posits, in The Emperor's New Mind (ISBN 978-0192861986) and Shadows of the Mind (ISBN 978-0195106466), that the human brain takes advantage of quantum effects to do what it does. This has been so controversial that I have found it impossible to have a dispassionate conversation about it with any learned person. The dispute can be broken apart into a number of different sub-controversies, some of which are more interesting than others. The science-fictional premise of Anathem is based on the relatively weak and modest assumption that natural selection has found some way to construct brains that, despite being warm and wet, are capable of exploiting the benefits of quantum computation. Readers who are uncomfortable with the specific mechanism posited by Penrose might also wish to read Henry Stapp's Mind, Matter, and Quantum Mechanics (ISBN 978-3540407614) which posits a quantum brain mechanism that is completely incompatible with Penrose's." Also read this, I was lucky enough to do an academic level course on parapsychology long ago with Dick Bierman for 4 study points: * Quantum States In The Retina? Pierre St. Hilaire, Dick Bierman, Stuart Hameroff http://quantum.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/prod/content/quantum-mind-quantum-states-retina#overlay-context=content/qm-topological-quantum-computationerror-correction-microtubules http://quantum.webhost.uits.arizona.edu/prod/content/quantum... Why is research like this not funded and practised more? Is it to far out, costly or difficult?