Re: Quantum spookiness in the brain?

On Apr 8, 2:59 pm, dkomo <dkomo...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
These authors say nay:

Is the Brain a Quantum Computer?

"We argue that computation via quantum mechanical processes is
irrelevant to explaining how brains produce thought, contrary to the
ongoing speculations of many theorists."

http://tinyurl.com/2e7pxq

http://watarts.uwaterloo.ca/~celiasmi/Papers/litt%20et%20al.2006.quan...

--dk...@xxxxxxxx

I was hoping that I could blame all of my mistakes of quantum
fluctuations in my brain, but I guess not.

.

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