Volume 8 No 2 (2010)
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A Historical View of the Relation Between Quantum Mechanics and the Brain: A Neuroquantologic Perspective
Sultan Tarlaci
Abstract
Over the past decade, discussions of the roles that quantum mechanics might or
might not play in the theory of consciousness/mind have become increasingly
sharp. One side of this debate stand conventional neuroscientists who assert that
brain science must look to the neuron for understanding, and on the other side are
certain physicists, suggesting that the rules of quantum theory might influence the
dynamics of consciousness/mind. However, consciousness and mind are not
separate from matter. Submicroscopic world of the human brain give rise to
consciousness and mind. We are never able to make a sharp separation between
mind and matter. Thus, ultimately there is no “mind” that can be separated from
“matter” and no “matter” that can be separated from “mind”. The brain as a mixed
physical system composed of the macroscopic neuron system and an additional
microscopic system. The former consists of pathway conduction of neural impulses.
The latter is assumed to be a quantum mechanical many‐body system interacting
with the macroscopic neuron system.
Keywords
mind, quantum biology, quantum mind, neuroquantology, consciousness, quantum physics, history
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