2 papers in the library · 2 citations · publishing 2019-2021
Physics World March 1, 2021 Betony Adams, Francesco Petruccione 2 citations
Do quantum effects play a role in consciousness? Or are the two areas being linked simply because they are both difficult to understand? Betony Adams and Francesco Petruccione explore this developing, and contentious, field of quantum biophysics
arXiv Preprint Archive October 17, 2019 Betony Adams, Francesco Petruccione preprint
In the mid-1990s it was proposed that quantum effects in proteins known as microtubules play a role in the nature of consciousness. The theory was largely dismissed due to the fact that quantum effects were thought unlikely to occur in biological systems, which are warm and wet and subject to decoherence. However, the development of quantum biology now suggests otherwise. Quantum effects have...