11mo ago

Photon entanglement could explain the rapid brain signals behind consciousness

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that's just physicists needing an excuse to run some simulations and publish them
- Hey we need the grant money.
  
  if you could make grant proposals that aren't so filled with buzzwords to be borderline fraudulent that'd be great because i also need grant money please and thank you
To remedy this problem, Chen and his colleagues investigated if there could be entangled photons within this axon-myelin system that could, though the magic of quantum entanglement, communicate instantly across the involved distances.
The “magic”? Eh…
- Magic is a phenomenon insufficiently explained by science. Sounds accurate to me.
  
  Upvoted for whimsy
But the speed at which signals propagate along the axons is below the speed of sound, sometimes much below—too slow to create the millions of neuron synchronizations that are the basis for all the amazing things the brain can do.
Is there a study where this is proven? I think that would be a more interesting read than this one.
- Sounds like my normal brain speed.
- Hold my beer while I make a brain out of some PVC tubes and mallets
have we established what causes consciousness? if we did, I feel like that should be the big news?
- Prediction: We are going to be really disappointed once we figure out what consciousness is. And then most people will deny it because we want it to remain a special, mysterious thing.

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