Cooling down and waking up: feedback cooling switches an unconscious neural computer into a conscious quantum computer
arXiv Preprint Archive August 21, 2023 Andrew Bell
This paper sets out a theory of how feedback cooling in the brain switches on consciousness. It explains how cooling reduces thermal noise to the point where macroscale quantum phenomena - crucially Bose-Einstein condensation and long-range coherence - can operate at body temperature. It takes the core idea from Stapp that mind and brain interact via some sort of oscillator and then focuses on...