Physicists from Trinity College have adapted technologies that were used to study quantum
In their experiment, scientists analyzedspin (momentum) of protons from the cerebrospinal fluid using MRI. Using special technology designed to look for entangled spins, scientists found signals in MRI that resembled a heartbeat or EEG.
Electrophysiological potentials such as thosethat are caused by the beating of the heart, as a rule, are not detected by MRI, the scientists explain. Their visualization is possible only when the spins of the protons of the nuclei of atoms that make up the cerebrospinal fluid are in an entangled state.
Previously for the proof of quantum gravityscientists have deduced a rule that holds for several interacting systems. If one of them is in an entangled state, then the other will also be a quantum system.
It follows from this rule that sinceThe cerebrospinal fluid is a quantum system, which means that the functions associated with it, which were measured in the experiment, also use quantum effects, the authors of the study conclude.
Quantum brain processes may explain why we are still superior to supercomputers when it comes to contingencies, decision making, or learning new things.
Christian Kerskens, Leading Physicist, Institute of Neurology, Trinity College
The scientists emphasize that the conclusions made in the work require additional verification in a series of experiments, but the preliminary results look promising.
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