Does the brain function as a quantum phase computer using phase ternary computation?

TL;DR

This paper proposes that the brain functions as a quantum phase computer utilizing phase ternary computation, based on evidence from neural signaling and critique of classical cable theory, suggesting a quantum-based neural coding mechanism.

Contribution

It introduces the idea that neural computation is quantum-based with phase ternary coding, challenging classical models and explaining retinal processing and brain function.

Findings

Neural signaling involves pressure pulses capable of precise computation.

Cable theory is inadequate for explaining rapid neural processing.

Brain may operate as a quantum phase computer with phase ternary coding.

Abstract

Here we provide evidence that the fundamental basis of nervous communication is derived from a pressure pulse/soliton capable of computation with sufficient temporal precision to overcome any processing errors. Signalling and computing within the nervous system are complex and different phenomena. Action potentials are plastic and this makes the action potential peak an inappropriate fixed point for neural computation, but the action potential threshold is suitable for this purpose. Furthermore, neural models timed by spiking neurons operate below the rate necessary to overcome processing error. Using retinal processing as our example, we demonstrate that the contemporary theory of nerve conduction based on cable theory is inappropriate to account for the short computational time necessary for the full functioning of the retina and by implication the rest of the brain. Moreover, cable theory cannot be instrumental in the propagation of the action potential because at the activation-threshold there is insufficient charge at the activation site for successive ion channels to be electrostatically opened. Deconstruction of the brain neural network suggests that it is a member of a group of Quantum phase computers of which the Turing machine is the simplest: the brain is another based upon phase ternary computation. However, attempts to use Turing based mechanisms cannot resolve the coding of the retina or the computation of intelligence, as the technology of Turing based computers is fundamentally different. We demonstrate that that coding in the brain neural network is quantum based, where the quanta have a temporal variable and a phase-base variable enabling phase ternary computation as previously demonstrated in the retina.