Volume 7 No 4 (2009)
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How Can the Visual Quantum Information be Transferred to The Brain Intact, Collapsing There and Causing Consciousness?
Majid Rahnama , Vahid Salari , Jack Tuszynski
Abstract
The main problem which this paper tries to address is whether collapse of the
wave function describing the state of a quantum mechanical system occurs, or,
rather can occur in the brain of the observer or not. One of the first (relatively)
detailed “collapse models” following the original abstract suggestion by von
Neumann that collapse occurs in the brain of the observer and is related to
consciousness, is the Orch OR model of Penrose and Hameroff. This model was
first criticized by Tegmark on the ground that due to decoherence, quantum
processing cannot occur in the human brain. This criticism was countered by
saying that due to structural shielding, microtubules inside the neurons can be
protected against the wet and warm environment inside the brain. Thaheld,
however, in a number of papers argued that quantum visual information carried
by the photons from the environment cannot reach the brain intact. In other
words, the quantum states of the photons would collapse inside the human eye
and only classical information would finally reach the brain and hence no collapse
and quantum processing in the brain can take place. In this paper we advance a
hypothesis that there is the possibility for the quantum states of photons to be
transmitted to the brain in a quantum-like manner. Our approach is based on the
quantum teleportation mechanism which includes both classical and quantum
aspects of information transfer, but the process itself is wholly quantum
mechanical
Keywords
collapse, retina, brain, teleportation, consciousness, quantum neuroscience
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