11 Citations
Quantum Information in Neural Systems
- PhysicsSymmetry
- 2021
The presented results show that fast decoherence timescales could assist cognitive binding through quantum entanglement across extensive neural networks in the brain cortex, and show that quantum coherence of individual subsystems cannot be used for cognitive binding because it is a physical mechanism that leads to separability and non-interaction.
Why the Quantum Brain?
- BiologyOBM Neurobiology
- 2021
The paper argues that the search for conscious free will, as it is typically tested in Libet-type experiments, implies putting the cart before the horse.
The Fourier-Laplace Transform—A Conjugate Link Between the Material Brain and the Conscious Mind
- PhysicsFrontiers in Human Neuroscience
- 2021
It is shown that an underlying operator algebra facilitates the formulation of the conjugate relationship between energy-time and momentum-space, and implications from augmented general dilation analytic operator families provide novel information-based representations and yield a thermo-qubit syntax for communication, which are required to support the quantum Darwinian view of life.
Toward a physics description of consciousness
- PhysicsThe European Physical Journal Special Topics
- 2021
This minireview is meant to provide a broad overview of the most basic interpretations of consciousness and of the potential links to fundamental physics, as a complement to the large number of more…
Minimal physicalism as a scale-free substrate for cognition and consciousness
- PsychologyNeuroscience of consciousness
- 2021
This work advances a scale-free characterization of consciousness and cognition that regards basal systems, including synthetic constructs, as not only informative about the structure and function of experience in more complex systems but also as offering distinct advantages for experimental manipulation.
Special Issue on Quantum Information Applied in Neuroscience
- PhysicsSymmetry
- 2022
The rapid progress achieved by quantum information science in recent decades was made possible by the realization that genuine quantum phenomena, for which their occurrences are forbidden by…
Virtual Reality for Neurorehabilitation and Cognitive Enhancement
- BiologyBrain sciences
- 2021
This review explores the utility of different types of virtual reality, immersive or non-immersive, for providing controllable, safe environments that enable individual training, neurorehabilitation, or even replacement of lost functions.
What is a Theory of Consciousness for?
- Philosophy, PsychologyJournal of Consciousness Studies
- 2021
Galileo's Error (Goff, 2019) leaves important questions unasked and hence unanswered. I focus on two of these: the question of what a theory of consciousness is supposed to accomplish, and the…
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- Physics
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