Quantum Brain Dynamics. A Possibility of Having a Quantum Interpretation of the Brain

TL;DR

This paper explores the possibility of interpreting brain functions, especially consciousness and memory, through quantum mechanics, building on historical ideas about quantum effects in living systems.

Contribution

It discusses the potential of Quantum Brain Dynamics as a framework for understanding consciousness and memory using quantum principles, inspired by Schrödinger's ideas on life and negentropy.

Findings

Quantum entanglement may underpin brain functions.

Quantum interpretation offers a new perspective on consciousness.

Quantum effects could explain memory processes.

Abstract

What Quantum Brain Dynamics (QBD) considers is not just these other functions of the brain, this is because they can be well analyzed with the workings of classical mechanics (even though they still play host to a quantum description). It rather considers two specific functions above all else consciousness and memory. QBD falls in line umbrella-covers aspects of the quantum brain analysis such as quantum-consciousness, quantum-mind and quantum-brain. The inspiration that lurks behind the Quantum Interpretation of the Brain (QIB), is traceable to the 1944 article written by E. Schrodinger, What is Life, in which he presents how a living organisms evades decay to equilibrium by the fact of negentropy, as such life which is in its ordered macroscopic state is created (in an environment of disorder), which moves against the second law of thermodynamics. The life that is created, that which is sustained, arises from an interaction that the organism engages in with the environment. This interaction is microscopic, albeit quantum, it is an interaction that underscores the reality of quantum entanglement (which also plays hosts to the superposition of quantum states). The quantum interpretation of the brain is a nascent, yet burgeoning as it might be that necessary tool required for a better articulation and comprehension of the brain.