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Andrei Khrennikov, Makiko Yamada
Quantum-like modeling (QLM)-quantum theory applications outside of physics-are intensively developed with applications in biology, cognition, psychology, and decision-making. For cognition, QLM should be distinguished from quantum reductionist models in the spirit of Hameroff and Penrose, as well as Umezawa and…
Andrei Khrennikov, Makiko Yamada
Quantum-like modeling (QLM) – quantum theory applications outside of physics – are intensively developed with applications in biology, cognition, psychology, and decision-making. For cognition, QLM should be distinguished from quantum reductionist models in the spirit of Hameroff and Penrose and well as Umezawa and…
Álex Escolà-Gascón
What if quantum entanglement could accelerate learning by unlocking higher states of conscious experience? This study provides empirical and statistical evidence of how quantum entanglement influences consciousness at a biophysical level. We analyzed data from 106 monozygotic twin pairs (N = 212), randomly assigned to…
Данко Георгиев
The evolution of the human mind through natural selection mandates that our conscious experiences are causally potent in order to leave a tangible impact upon the surrounding physical world. Any attempt to construct a functional theory of the conscious mind within the framework of classical physics, however, inevitably…
Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Argëlles, Lester Beltran, Suzette Geriente + 1 more
'Suzette Geriente' 'Sandro Sozzo'] In physics, entanglement 'reduces' the entropy of an entity, because the (von Neumann) entropy of, e.g., a composite bipartite entity in a pure entangled state is systematically lower than the entropy of the component sub-entities. We show here that this 'genuinely non-classical…
Diederik Aerts, Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi, Sandro Sozzo
the Quantum Mysteries Authors: ['Diederik Aerts' 'Massimiliano Sassoli de Bianchi' 'Sandro Sozzo'] An overview of the conceptuality interpretation of quantum mechanics is presented, along with an explanation of how it sheds light on key quantum and relativistic phenomena. In particular, we show how the interpretation…
Ovidiu Cristinel Stoica
I show that if mental states are function of physical states, then they are nonlocal, in a sense that will be explained. I argue that, if mental states are reducible to brain physics, and if they are integrated experiences, this nonlocality implies that Classical Physics is not enough, in particular the…
Michael C Wiest
Recent experimental evidence, briefly reviewed here, points to intraneuronal microtubules as a functional target of inhalational anesthetics. This finding is consistent with the general hypothesis that the biophysical substrate of consciousness is a collective quantum state of microtubules and is specifically predicted…
Raymond T. Bradley, Chaarenne T. Torris
Within the broader topic of women's intuition, the focus of this work is mother-offspring intuition-the enigmatic connection between a mother and her offspring, wherein distress or imminent harm is instantly sensed, even when thousands of miles apart. Instant nonlocal communication irrespective of distance, is known as…
Jacob Jolij
Panpsychism is a solution to the mind-body problem that presumes that consciousness is a fundamental aspect of reality instead of a product or consequence of physical processes (i.e., brain activity). Panpsychism is an elegant solution to the mind-body problem: it effectively rids itself of the 'explanatory gap'…
Arturo Tozzi, Colin James, James F Peters
Experimental procedures in neuroscience rely on the standpoints that the mind is a functional state of the brain and a clear subdivision among different mental faculties does exist in the cortex. According to cognitive neuroscientists, the term "mind" encompasses just the "cognitive" faculties, such as consciousness…
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Chemical bonding, despite being fundamental to chemistry, lacks a universally agreed-upon quantum mechanical definition that captures all its facets across diverse molecular systems. Traditional models—Lewis structures, Valence Bond theory, Molecular Orbital theory, and the Quantum Theory of Atoms in Molecules…
Peter B. Lloyd
Models of consciousness are usually developed within physical monist or dualistic frameworks, in which the structure and dynamics of the mind are derived from the workings of the physical brain. Little attention has been given to modelling consciousness within a mental monist framework, deriving the structure and…
Joseph O’Neill, Andreas Schoth
The theoretical framework of classical thermodynamics unifies vastly diverse natural phenomena and captures once-elusive effects in concrete terms. Neuroscience confronts equally varied, equally ineffable phenomena in the mental realm, but has yet to unite or to apprehend them rigorously, perhaps due to an insufficient…
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In the classic view, spin pairing occurs between two electrons in a chemical bond where the bonding interaction compensates for the penalty of electrostatic repulsion. It is a mystery whether spin pairing can occur between two non-bonded electrons within a molecular entity. Unveiling this elusive spin entanglement…
Richard Winpenny, Edmund Little, Jacob Mrozek, Ciaran J Rogers + 4 more
Quantum information processing promises to revolutionise computing; quantum algorithms have been discovered that address common tasks significantly more efficiently than their classical counterparts. For a physical system to be a viable quantum computer it must be possible to initialise its quantum state, to realise a…