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>That is literally what it does. It slows down cognition. Yes, but I'm talking actual changes in the cognitive output. Look at all the physiological changes as

by rl3 6y ago

>That is literally what it does. It slows down cognition. Yes, but I'm talking actual changes in the cognitive output. Look at all the physiological changes astronauts undergo. Those changes extend to their cognition, even if the effect of general relativity is small. >Again, this is a pop-science misunderstanding of all of physics, not just Quantum Mechanics (QM). There's an entire field called quantum biology. I'm not advocating the brain has quantum magic (in fact last I checked the theory was pretty much completely discounted). Rather, on the off-chance that it does, your example breaks down via way of the elements that comprise the brain's computation not being necessarily subject to the same relativistic effects due to potentially vast distances between some of those elements. Or, without QM at all, consider that there's an extremely minute difference in relativistic effects even across the few inches that span your skull. By that alone, 1.0 is not 1.0. Not trying to be pedantic here, merely food for thought.

jiggawatts 6y ago
I'm saying that GR and QM apply to all things, not that the brain "isn't quantum". It follows QM rules in the ordinary sense that electrons orbit atoms in the brain the same way as they do in other well established contexts. Similarly, the many-world interpretation is that the non-locality experiments make perfect sense if you include the human brain in the experiment and stop excluding it. That's simply a statement that we are not "gods", somehow standing apart from the Universe and observing it from the outside. We're in it, and interacting with it, the same as everything else. The only really interesting QM "stuff" that seems to be going on is that some enzymes have incredibly high efficiencies, even when bathed in dilute reactants. There are hints that this may be some sort of inherently quantum mechanical process that cannot be understood classically. But this is a tenuous hypothesis at best, there's no hard evidence yet, let alone a good theory.

by rl3 6y ago

jiggawatts 6y ago

I'm saying that GR and QM apply to all things, not that the brain "isn't quantum". It follows QM rules in the ordinary sense that electrons orbit atoms in the brain the same way as they do in other well established contexts. Similarly, the many-world interpretation is that the non-locality experiments make perfect sense if you include the human brain in the experiment and stop excluding it. That's simply a statement that we are not "gods", somehow standing apart from the Universe and observing it from the outside. We're in it, and interacting with it, the same as everything else. The only really interesting QM "stuff" that seems to be going on is that some enzymes have incredibly high efficiencies, even when bathed in dilute reactants. There are hints that this may be some sort of inherently quantum mechanical process that cannot be understood classically. But this is a tenuous hypothesis at best, there's no hard evidence yet, let alone a good theory.