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The ghost in the machine
This page provides online resources relating to Chapter 3 of Quantum Biology: A Glimpse into the Future of Medicine. Read a chapter extract, or scroll down to access additional resources published by The Guy Foundation, and a list of further reading.
To a certain extent, the brain is an organ, and that organ must do something. But what if the brain is just the tube? What if the brain is the flux container that provides an environment in which quantum thought and quantum processes in terms of energy and information transition can take place? What if the brain we can see is purely a biological way of allowing those transitions to happen?
In other words, is biology itself a way of making the quantum processes of molecules portable? Life may have started in hot vents at the bottom of the ocean, but how did we move away from that? We need to package some of our energy and take it with us. If we’ve got a free supply of energy, we don’t need batteries, but if we want to run 100 metres, we have to find a way of storing and using it…
… Are the nerves and the neurons and the structures we see not in fact doing the thinking and the cerebration (that is, creating the consciousness), but rather do they only provide the environment in which that can go ahead?
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