Is the brain a quantum computer? A remarkable pair of studies suggests so - Salon

For decades, some outsider researchers have postulated that the brain has some connection to quantum entanglement that results in consciousness.

The whole realm of quantum mechanics simply deals with things at their smallest possible level, as small or smaller than atoms.

This is the realm of "classical" physics.

"I think if you ask, most neuroscientists — or even physicists — would say that it's not possible to find entanglement in the brain." .

Still, this idea that quantum mechanics is implicated in consciousness is still not very popular among most neuroscientists or physicists, who believe consciousness happens via classical physics, not the quantum level.

"I think if you ask, most neuroscientists — or even physicists — would say that it's not possible to find entanglement in the brain," Dr.

Entanglement is a theory central to quantum mechanics that explains how photons or electrons can become connected, or entangled, even at long distances.

Kerskens borrowed an experiment model that has been used to explore quantum gravity, described as "one of the deepest physics mysteries of our time." A theory of quantum gravity seeks to marry two seemingly opposed fields of physics: the microscopic world of quantum mechanics with the macroscopic world of gravity