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philosopher wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:34 pmQuantum Biology deals with how evolution works through quantum processes. Stuff that speeds up the evolution.

It has nothing to do with how the brain works.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_mind
The main theoretical argument against the quantum mind hypothesis is the assertion that quantum states in the brain would lose coherency before they reached a scale where they could be useful for neural processing. This supposition was elaborated by Tegmark. His calculations indicate that quantum systems in the brain decohere at sub-picosecond timescales.[71][72] No response by a brain has shown computational results or reactions on this fast of a timescale. Typical reactions are on the order of milliseconds, trillions of times longer than sub-picosecond timescales.[73]

Atla wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:43 pm

philosopher wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:34 pmQuantum Biology deals with how evolution works through quantum processes. Stuff that speeds up the evolution.

Again no, speeding up evolution is one part of it. To give some examples, enzymes in your body, and your ability to smell, are using quantum effects right now (the second one is questionable though).
Or look up the European Robin if you want to see quantum entanglement exploited in a living body (probably). I wonder if that counts as information-transfer or not.

philosopher wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:34 pm

Atla wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:43 pm

philosopher wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:34 pmQuantum Biology deals with how evolution works through quantum processes. Stuff that speeds up the evolution.

Again no, speeding up evolution is one part of it. To give some examples, enzymes in your body, and your ability to smell, are using quantum effects right now (the second one is questionable though).
Or look up the European Robin if you want to see quantum entanglement exploited in a living body (probably). I wonder if that counts as information-transfer or not.

Nothing in what you're saying here is original.

I see you've watched the BBC documentary about quantum mechanics (2nd part).
With Jim al-khalili as host.

Try watch some lectures on quantum mechanics as well.

Atla wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:42 pm

philosopher wrote: ↑Tue Sep 03, 2019 3:34 pm

Atla wrote: ↑Mon Sep 02, 2019 1:43 pm
Again no, speeding up evolution is one part of it. To give some examples, enzymes in your body, and your ability to smell, are using quantum effects right now (the second one is questionable though).
Or look up the European Robin if you want to see quantum entanglement exploited in a living body (probably). I wonder if that counts as information-transfer or not.

Nothing in what you're saying here is original.

I see you've watched the BBC documentary about quantum mechanics (2nd part).
With Jim al-khalili as host.

Try watch some lectures on quantum mechanics as well.

Says the guy who has shown in every comment to know just about nothing about it.

"If you think you understand quantum mechanics then you don't understand quantum mechanics."
Richard Feynman.