Re: Quantum spookiness in the brain?

dkomo <dkomo871@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."

Not that hard, since kT >> \hbar\omega, for any \omega
that you can plausibly associate with thought processes,

Jan

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