As physicists attempt to build bigger and better quantum computers, a powerful one may have already been inside of us.
A group of scientists from Trinity College Dublin believe that our brains could be using quantum computation.
The finding could help explain why our brains still do better than the world's most powerful computers.
Their conclusion is based on the idea of quantumentanglement, a phenomenon that1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556 is1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556
Christian Kerskens, study co-author and lead physicist at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, said that they adapted an idea to prove the existence of quantum gravity.
The unknown must be a quantum system if the systemsentangle. It makes it easier to find measuring devices for something we don't know anything about.
The "known system" was the spin of the protons in our brains. Kerskens and his team were able to detect if any of the spins were quantum entangled by using a special form of magnetic resonance.
The scientists were able to detect a specific kind of electrical brain signal known as heartbeat evoked potentials, which is normally not visible with magnetic resonance images.
The scientists theorize that quantumentanglement in the brain allowed them to detect those potentials.
According to Kerskens, brain processes must have interacted with the nuclear spins in order for that to happen. We can say that the brain functions must be quantum.
It's an interesting suggestion, but there's more that needs to be proven. The study is based on proposals in the field of quantum gravity.
The scientists admit that much of their work was done through quantum physics.
It would take a lot of work, especially considering the complexity of the human brain.
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