Quantum Information in Neural Systems
@article{Georgiev2021QuantumII, title={Quantum Information in Neural Systems}, author={Danko D. Georgiev}, journal={Symmetry}, year={2021}, volume={13}, pages={773} }
Identifying the physiological processes in the central nervous system that underlie our conscious experiences has been at the forefront of cognitive neuroscience. While the principles of classical physics were long found to be unaccommodating for a causally effective consciousness, the inherent indeterminism of quantum physics, together with its characteristic dichotomy between quantum states and quantum observables, provides a fertile ground for the physical modeling of consciousness. Here, we…
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