Quantum Brain Dynamics. A Possibility of Having a Quantum Interpretation of the Brain
arXiv Preprint Archive June 5, 2023 via arXiv
Summary
AI-generated from the abstractQuantum Brain Dynamics (QBD) focuses specifically on consciousness and memory, unlike other brain functions that can be analyzed with classical mechanics. The quantum interpretation of the brain (QIB) traces its inspiration to Erwin Schrödinger's 1944 book "What is Life," which describes how living organisms avoid decay to equilibrium through negentropy—maintaining ordered macroscopic states in a disordered environment. This life-sustaining interaction is microscopic and quantum, involving quantum entanglement and superposition of quantum states. The quantum interpretation of the brain is presented as a nascent but necessary tool for better understanding the brain.
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| Characteristics | Theoretical or philosophical paper Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Keywords | Q-bio.nc Quantum-neuroscience Consciousness-studies Brain-physics |
| Key finding | Quantum Brain Dynamics specifically addresses consciousness and memory through quantum entanglement and superposition, inspired by Schrödinger's concept of negentropy in living organisms. |
Abstract
What Quantum Brain Dynamics (QBD) considers is not just these other functions of the brain, this is because they can be well analyzed with the workings of classical mechanics (even though they still play host to a quantum description). It rather considers two specific functions above all else consciousness and memory. QBD falls in line umbrella-covers aspects of the quantum brain analysis such as quantum-consciousness, quantum-mind and quantum-brain. The inspiration that lurks behind the Quantum Interpretation of the Brain (QIB), is traceable to the 1944 article written by E. Schrodinger, What is Life, in which he presents how a living organisms evades decay to equilibrium by the fact of negentropy, as such life which is in its ordered macroscopic state is created (in an environment of disorder), which moves against the second law of thermodynamics. The life that is created, that which is sustained, arises from an interaction that the organism engages in with the environment. This interaction is microscopic, albeit quantum, it is an interaction that underscores the reality of quantum entanglement (which also plays hosts to the superposition of quantum states). The quantum interpretation of the brain is a nascent, yet burgeoning as it might be that necessary tool required for a better articulation and comprehension of the brain.