{"id":194834,"date":"2024-08-20T17:22:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/is-the-brain-a-quantum-computer-new-insights-say-it-might-be"},"modified":"2024-08-20T17:22:46","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T22:22:46","slug":"is-the-brain-a-quantum-computer-new-insights-say-it-might-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/is-the-brain-a-quantum-computer-new-insights-say-it-might-be","title":{"rendered":"Is the Brain A Quantum Computer? New Insights Say It Might Be"},"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\/h_VeDKVG7e0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There is a theory dubbed \u201cquantum consciousness,\u201d which stipulates that brain functions and consciousness are derived from quantum effects like the collapse of the quantum wavefunction.<\/p>\n<p>This is a strange part of quantum physics, where particles go from a state of simultaneous properties to a more \u201cnormal\u201d state where they have one defined characteristic. It has notably been popularized by the concept of Schr\u00f6dinger\u2019s cat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a theory dubbed \u201cquantum consciousness,\u201d which stipulates that brain functions and consciousness are derived from quantum effects like the collapse of the quantum wavefunction. This is a strange part of quantum physics, where particles go from a state of simultaneous properties to a more \u201cnormal\u201d state where they have one defined characteristic. It [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194834","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=194834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}