Quantum Consciousness

By richard potter

Quantum Consciousness

What is quantum mind, super, and Quantum, consciousness, theorists?

Interpretations of quantum mechanics Einsteins's  thought experiment

Quantum mechanics quantum science

• Language: English
• Publisher: richard potter
• Release date: Nov 17, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393710615

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Quantum Consciousness

Intruduction

This book is about the super mind and consciousness all the different terriers known with experiments made by great minds.

1 What is quantum mind?

The quantum mind or quantum consciousness is a proto scientific hypothesis that posits a connection between consciousness, neurobiology and quantum mechanics. There are many blank areas in understanding the brain dynamics and especially how it gives rise to consciousness.

Quantum Mind

The quantum mind or quantum consciousness is a group of hypotheses which proposes that classical mechanics cannot explain consciousness. It posits that quantum mechanical phenomena, such as quantum entanglement and superposition, may play an important part in the brain's function and could form the basis for an explanation of consciousness.

Is the brain necessary for consciousness?

The part of the brain that controls consciousness is the frontal lobe. Other activities controlled by the frontal lobe include problem solving, decision making, emotions and control of purposeful behaviours.

What is super consciousness?

The Super-Conscious Mind is the aspect of consciousness which is limitless or Infinite in nature and which depending on any number of infinite possibilities concerning what you have been taught to believe with regard to what the Super Conscious is, is known and has been labelled by man as many things. The quantum mind or quantum consciousness is a group of hypotheses which proposes that classical mechanics cannot explain consciousness. The quantum mind or quantum consciousness is a group of hypotheses which proposes that classical mechanics cannot explain consciousness. It posits that quantum mechanical phenomena, such as quantum entanglement and superposition, may play an important part in the brain's function and could form the basis for an explanation of consciousness.

Assertions that consciousness is somehow quantum-mechanical can overlap with quantum mysticism, a pseudoscientific movement that involves assigning supernatural characteristics to various quantum phenomena such as nonlocality and the observer effect.

2 About Quantum consciousness

While many attempts at a theory of quantum consciousness are pseudoscientific by naively claiming the strangeness of quantum mechanics is a parallel to the strangeness of consciousness, more sophisticated quantum consciousness theories are an attempt at a solution of the combination problem; the problem explaining how a system of classical neurons can combine to form a single subject of experience (also referred to as the binding problem). However, there is currently little experimental evidence of computationally relevant quantum processes in the human brain, in part due to the technical difficulty of probing the brain at sufficient spatial and temporal granularity.

Whether or not quantum effects influence thought is a valid topic for scientific investigation, but simply stating quantum effects cause consciousness explains nothing unless scientists can come up with some suggestion about how quantum effects could possibly cause consciousness. The argument goes:

I don't understand consciousness.

I don't understand quantum physics.

Therefore, consciousness must be a function of quantum physics!

It's god of the gaps with quantum as the all-purpose gap filler.[1]

Please note: This should be distinguished from research into "quantum cognition, which applies quantum-mechanical mathematical models to human behaviour in areas where classical probability theory fails to match observed human behaviour. Quantum cognition" does not assume that the underlying human consciousness is quantum-mechanical; it's simply that a few psychologists noted that the same concepts and equations used in quantum mechanics are for reasons unknown good analogies for actual human behaviour where traditional probability theory suggests that actual behaviour is irrational.

Also note that at the atomic level, quantum events (radioactive decay of atoms, probabilistic collisions of molecules) obviously take place in the brain and affect neurons to some extent. However, such events are considered trivial and there is no evidence that they play any computationally relevant role.

Different theorists Quanta and consciousness

It's necessary to distinguish between the Deepak Chopra-brand quantum woo version of quantum consciousness, non-materialist neuroscience and the more materialist version.

Deepak Chopra

In the Chopra-brand, everything is in some vague superposition, Schrodinger’s cat style, until it is observed. Therefore, the universe requires an observer. Therefore, one or more god(s) exists.

According to Chopra

It is a bit hard to see what Chopra means by this, it seems that a whole lot of different, perhaps incompatible possibilities (like the possibility that Schrödinger's cat is alive and the simultaneous possibility that the cat is dead) form a field and by some unexplained mechanism consciousness derives from this field of possibilities.

Mario Beauregard

Mario Beauregard's brand of quantum theory is explained in-depth at the non-materialist neuroscience page. The crux of the quantum-related part of his argument is that the ion channels in neurons are small enough to be subject to quantum effects. This is similar to the materialist version of quantum consciousness. Other scientists reject many of Beauregard's postulates.

Roger Penrose

The most famous proponent of this theory is Roger Penrose, a renowned mathematician who has collaborated frequently with Stephen Hawking — that is, he differs from other quantum consciousness proponents in actually understanding something about quantum physics. You might recognize his name from the Penrose triangle Wikipedia's W.svg or the Penrose tiling. Wikipedia's W.svg

Penrose's argument starts off based on Gödel's incompleteness theorem Wikipedia's W.svg , stating that the existence of the theorem demonstrated that the mind had the capability of thinking outside of an algorithmic fashion, i.e. that consciousness is non-computable. Quantum physics then gives him the out to argue that neurons, and thus the brain as a whole, operate in a probabilistic fashion.[4] Somehow probabilistic fashions lead to consciousness. Max Tegmark, a man who received donations from Elon Musk to investigate existential risk from advanced artificial intelligence, claims the brain is simply too hot for quantum states to be influential. [5]

3 Penrose and Hereof

Penrose then teamed up with Stuart Hereof, who developed a similarly unscientific theory about quantum independently, to further this idea. They developed something called the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR) model. Most of it is dependent on Hameroff's assertion that the micro-tubules in neurons could have quantum effects on neuronal behaviour, thus allowing the brain to behave as a quantum computer. Max Tegmark performed some mathematics and he saw any quantum effects within micro-tubules as subject to DE coherence and thus not affecting brain activity.[6] Further falsifications of the Orch-OR model have been performed.[7][8] Penrose is an atheist and his arguments are usually used to support free will without invoking spirits, making this something like materialist woo. Research has recently shown that anaesthesia's action differs from the model in Penrose and Hameroff's hypothesis, casting further doubt on the idea. It should be noted that a quantum computer is a real (theoretical) device that utilises the quantum properties of atoms and molecules for computing power. A quantum computer harnesses the quantum superposition of atoms and can hold a single bit (known as qubit) in a state of 1, 0 and both at the same time. Effectively this means that a single atom used to perform a calculation is on, off, and on and off at the same time. The quantum computer can maintain these states — potentially all possible states — simultaneously before coalescing around a single calculation almost instantaneously. In principle, this allows quantum computers to perform some operations exponentially faster than classical computers, though there is currently no sound evidence to suggest that the human brain (or any other natural

11 All these theories

In short, the various exercises in quantum "flapdoodle, seem to demonstrate that many are uncomfortable with the facts that neurons operate on the all-or-nothing principle, i.e., a) they are either on or off, making them in effect similar to a computer's binary code;[13] b) that, as far as we can tell according to modern science, they are subject to physical law and classical mechanics; [14] and c) we still don't have a full solution for the binding problem or an all-encompassing explanation for just why brains work the way they do. Of course not all of it is flapdoodle-this doesn't rule out the possibility of quantum effects, but no coherent mechanism able to be replicated by experiment has been proposed thus far.

12 The question of quantum free will

Even if quantum forces were discovered to exert influence over neuronal activity, this still doesn't necessarily prove free will, in great part because of the slippery definition of free will. The probabilistic nature of quantum mechanics does not rule out determinism — rather than a strict A then B views of causality, it simply creates a more complex picture of causality in which future possibilities and probabilities are naturally constrained and calculated.[16] This might be thought of as rolling dice to determine your future action. It may be probabilistic, but it isn't freely chosen in the normal sense of the word. The nature of consciousness remains deeply mysterious and profoundly important, with existential, medical and spiritual implication. We know what it is like to be conscious – to have awareness, a conscious ‘mind’, but who, or what, are ‘we’ who know such things? How is the subjective nature of phenomenal experience – our ‘inner life’ - to be explained in scientific terms?

What consciousness actually is and how it comes about remain unknown

The general assumption in modern science and philosophy - the ‘standard model’ - is that consciousness emerges from complex computation among brain neurons, computation