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Luiz Pinguelli Rosa

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Quantum models of the mind: are they compatible with environment decoherence?

Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics September 1, 2004 Luiz Pinguelli Rosa, Jean Faber

Quantum models of the mind associate consciousness with coherent superposition of states in the brain. Some authors consider consciousness to be the result of a kind of internal quantum measurement process in the brain. In this paper we discuss the ideas of Hameroff-Penrose and Tegmark and their calculation for an estimate of decoherence time. We criticize the Hameroff-Penrose model in the...

Quantum Models of Mind: Are They Compatible with Environment\n Decoherence?

arXiv (Cornell University) March 5, 2004 Jean Faber, Luiz Pinguelli Rosa preprint

We criticize the Hameroff Penrose model in the context of quantum brain model\nby gravitational collapse orchestrated objective reduction, orch. OR, assumed\nby Penrose, and we propose instead that the decoherence process is caused by\ninteraction with the environment. We consider it useful to exploit this\npossibility because of the growing importance of decoherence theory in...

Quantum Models of Mind: Are They Compatible with Environment Decoherence?

arXiv Preprint Archive March 5, 2004 Jean Faber, Luiz Pinguelli Rosa

We criticize the Hameroff Penrose model in the context of quantum brain model by gravitational collapse orchestrated objective reduction, orch. OR, assumed by Penrose, and we propose instead that the decoherence process is caused by interaction with the environment. We consider it useful to exploit this possibility because of the growing importance of decoherence theory in quantum measurement,...