“The Brain Is Both Neurocomputer And Quantum Computer,” by Stuart Hammeroff is a fascinating paper which discusses the computational mechanism used in the human brain. ...
Hameroff's paper proposes that quantum events not only play a crucial role in the brain's computation but that specifically they are related to consciousness in the human mind. Interestingly, quantum events are not unique to the human mind but they occur in our vegetables too. The quantum events in a carrot are infrequent but they might be construed as evidence that carrots are infrequently conscious. Funnily enough, the Buddhist belief that everything has a soul might find backing in this research. [
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