Cold Numbers Unmake the Quantum Mind
Cold Numbers Unmake the Quantum Mind
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冰冷的数字破坏了量子思维
DOI：
10.1126/science.287.5454.791
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发表时间：
2000
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影响因子：
56.9
通讯作者：
C. Seife
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作者：
C. Seife
神经科学计算表明，大脑中微小结构的波函数坍缩并不能解释思维的奥秘。这一发现对“量子意识”造成了沉重打击，“量子意识”认为，思想是通过量子力学的运作在大脑中产生的。一位物理学家综合了有关大脑温度、量子物体大小以及离子等引起的干扰的数据，得出结论：可能的量子微处理器退相干速度太快，无法协调神经元的放电。
NEUROSCIENCECalculations show that collapsing wave functions of tiny structures in the brain can't explain the mystery of thought. The findings deal a sharp blow to "quantum consciousness," the idea that thoughts arise in the brain through the workings of quantum mechanics. By combining data about the brain's temperature, the sizes of proposed quantum objects, and disturbances caused by such things as ions, a physicist has concluded that possible quantum microprocessors decohere far too rapidly to orchestrate the firings of neurons.