Photon Entanglement May Explain The Rapid Brain Signals Of Consciousness

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A schematic showing, left to right (a) a neuron with multiple myelin sheaths along its length, (b) modeling of a myelin sheath segment encasing an axon segment, and (c) phospholipid molecules, a major component of myelin, with a tail consisting of a large number of carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds. Credit: Physical Review E (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.024402
A schematic showing, left to right (a) a neuron with multiple myelin sheaths along its length, (b) modeling of a myelin sheath segment encasing an axon segment, and (c) phospholipid molecules, a major component of myelin, with a tail consisting of a large number of carbon-hydrogen (C-H) bonds. Credit: Physical Review E (2024). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.024402

David Appell -- Phys.org

Aug. 16, 2024

Understanding the nature of consciousness is one of the hardest problems in science. Some scientists have suggested that quantum mechanics, and in particular quantum entanglement, is the key to unraveling the phenomenon.

Now, a research group in China has shown that many  can be generated inside the myelin sheath that covers nerve fibers. It could explain the rapid communication between neurons, which so far has been thought to be below the , too slow to explain how the neural synchronization occurs.

The paper is published in the journal Physical Review E.

"If the power of evolution was looking for handy action over a distance, quantum entanglement would be [an] ideal candidate for this role," said Yong-Cong Chen in a statement to Phys.org. Chen is a professor at the Shanghai Center for Quantitative Life Sciences and Physics Department at Shanghai University.

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