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It certainly is an interesting possibility that quantum entanglement could play a role in the brain, but my understanding is that a member of an entangled parti
by jarin 15y ago
It certainly is an interesting possibility that quantum entanglement could play a role in the brain, but my understanding is that a member of an entangled particle pair would still need to be mechanically transported to a different location in the brain to really take advantage of any entanglement effects, right? Also, if I understand correctly, you can only "use" the entanglement once, so there would need to be a constant production of entangled pairs and transport of them to appropriate parts of the brain.
- sorbus 15y agoA lot of people believe in it - and it's the basis for a lot of woo. The hypothesis is generally referred to as the Quantum Mind, if you want to read more about it. Its supporters generally don't think that that the entanglement effects are being used to transmit information; rather that the brain functions with quantum computing as a basis for consciousness - so, if this is true, you would have quantum effects determining, on some level, whether neurons fire or not. Anyways, while this is an interesting topic, I'm not quite sure how you got to it from Photosynthesis. This article isn't putting forth the possibility that quantum entanglement is involved in the brain, although the last sentence does suggest that the reporter thinks that it might be.
- jarin 15y agoThat's what I was going off of. It's a pretty big "dot dot dot" on the end of the article.