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It's interesting to ponder how those quantum particles which make up a brain might be entangled with other particles elsewhere or elsewhen in this or other univ
by buildsjets 4y ago
It's interesting to ponder how those quantum particles which make up a brain might be entangled with other particles elsewhere or elsewhen in this or other universes.
Consider that the appearance of Walter Cronkite on an old-school OTA television screen is not an emergent property of a television. You can disassemble it, inspect it, find no miniature Cronkite inside, reassemble it with the same organization, plug it in, and get nothing but static. You don't get Cronkite until the CBS evening news is broadcast, and the television is powered on, working correctly, and tuned to the right frequency.
- zerodensity 4y agoEntanglement does not really work when the particles interact with the environment. In the brain this would be the other particles in the brain so any non-local quantum effects from particles outside of the brain would be miniscule at best. Also the brain has computational capacity on the order of 10^18 if you include dendrite computation and only classical physics. That is a mind boggling number. Personally I don't think it's necessary to involve quantum mechanics in the function of the brain (even intracrainial), mainly because it already has all the computation that it needs.