{"id":148539,"date":"2022-10-19T22:22:35","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-research-suggests-our-brains-use-quantum-computation"},"modified":"2022-10-19T22:22:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T03:22:35","slug":"new-research-suggests-our-brains-use-quantum-computation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/new-research-suggests-our-brains-use-quantum-computation","title":{"rendered":"New research suggests our brains use quantum computation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-research-suggests-our-brains-use-quantum-computation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists from Trinity College Dublin believe our brains could use quantum computation. Their discovery comes after they adapted an idea developed to prove the existence of quantum gravity to explore the human brain and its workings.<\/p>\n<p>The brain functions measured were also correlated to short-term memory performance and conscious awareness, suggesting <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/quantum+processes\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">quantum processes<\/a> are also part of cognitive and conscious brain functions.<\/p>\n<p>If the team\u2019s results can be confirmed\u2014likely requiring advanced multidisciplinary approaches\u2014they would enhance our general understanding of how the brain works and potentially how it can be maintained or even healed. They may also help find <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/innovative+technologies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">innovative technologies<\/a> and build even more advanced quantum computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists from Trinity College Dublin believe our brains could use quantum computation. Their discovery comes after they adapted an idea developed to prove the existence of quantum gravity to explore the human brain and its workings. The brain functions measured were also correlated to short-term memory performance and conscious awareness, suggesting quantum processes are also [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}