{"id":169920,"date":"2023-08-18T01:24:13","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/why-many-researchers-now-see-the-brain-as-a-quantum-system"},"modified":"2023-08-18T01:24:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T06:24:13","slug":"why-many-researchers-now-see-the-brain-as-a-quantum-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/why-many-researchers-now-see-the-brain-as-a-quantum-system","title":{"rendered":"Why Many Researchers Now See the Brain as a Quantum System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/43vuOpJY46s?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01 Year 2022<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Quantum processes are helpful to know about when we hear a gimcrack new theory that <a href=\"https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2020\/05\/philosopher-consciousness-is-not-a-problem-dualism-is\/\">dismisses<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2021\/08\/defending-the-minds-reality-at-a-materialist-cocktail-party\/\" class=\"\">explains away<\/a> human consciousness. We know it can\u2019t just be that simple.<\/p>\n<p><em>You may also wish to read:<\/em> Researchers: The brain\u2019s claustrum acts as <a href=\"https:\/\/mindmatters.ai\/2022\/12\/researchers-the-brains-claustrum-acts-as-a-router-for-thoughts\/\">a router for thoughts<\/a> Francis Crick thought the claustrum might be the \u201cseat of consciousness,\u201d an inherently materialist concept. The researchers think he was wrong. Of course, seeing the claustrum as a router is more consistent with the immaterial nature of consciousness than seeing it as a seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\ud83d\ude17\ud83d\ude01 Year 2022 Quantum processes are helpful to know about when we hear a gimcrack new theory that dismisses or explains away human consciousness. We know it can\u2019t just be that simple. You may also wish to read: Researchers: The brain\u2019s claustrum acts as a router for thoughts Francis Crick thought the claustrum might be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169920","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}