Re:Organisms might be quantum machines
by bad_alloc on Thursday August 18, 2016 @07:14PM
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Tha's what Roger Penrose argued in "Shadows of the Mind" where he theorizes about quantum effects in the human brain and how they might give rise to conciousness [1]. There's some criticism about it, because the brain is pretty warm and decoherence should disturb all quantum states so much taht they become unusable, but it is still a research topic if "warm" quantum states can exist.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadows_of_the_Mind