{"id":17676,"date":"2015-09-22T01:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/your-brain-isnt-a-computer-its-a-quantum-field"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:22:50","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:22:50","slug":"your-brain-isnt-a-computer-its-a-quantum-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/your-brain-isnt-a-computer-its-a-quantum-field","title":{"rendered":"Your Brain Isn\u2019t a Computer. It\u2019s a Quantum Field."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-brain-isnt-a-computer-its-a-quantum-field.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For centuries, religious texts have explored the idea that reality breaks down once we get past our surface perceptions of it; and yet, it is through these ambiguities that we understand more about ourselves and our world. In the Old Testament, the embattled Job pleads with God for an explanation as to why he has endured so much suffering. God then quizzically replies, \u201cWhere were you when I laid the foundations of the earth?\u201d (Job 38:4). The question seems nonsensical \u2014 why would God ask a person in his creation where he was when God himself created the world? But this paradox is little different from the one in Einstein\u2019s famous challenge to Heisenberg\u2019s \u201cUncertainty Principle\u201d: \u201cGod does not play dice with the universe.\u201d As Stephen Hawking counters, \u201cEven God is bound by the uncertainty principle\u201d because if all outcomes were deterministic then God would not be God. His being the universe\u2019s \u201cinveterate gambler\u201d is the unpredictable certainty that creates him. <\/p>\n<p>The mind then, according to quantum cognition, \u201cgambles\u201d with our \u201cuncertain\u201d reason, feelings, and biases to produce competing thoughts, ideas, and opinions. Then we synthesize those competing options to relate to our relatively \u201ccertain\u201d realities. By examining our minds at a quantum level, we change them, and by changing them, we change the reality that shapes them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigthink.com\/ideafeed\/does-the-mind-play-dice-with-reason\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For centuries, religious texts have explored the idea that reality breaks down once we get past our surface perceptions of it; and yet, it is through these ambiguities that we understand more about ourselves and our world. In the Old Testament, the embattled Job pleads with God for an explanation as to why he has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17676","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\/17676","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17676"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69499,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17676\/revisions\/69499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}