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Quantum Entanglement in Your Brain Is What Generates Consciousness, Radical Study Suggests (www.msn.com)

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For the past 30 years, scientists have investigated whether the human brain might require quantum processes to achieve cognition.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The study, published this month in the journal Physics Review E, suggests that a fatty material called myelin that surrounding the nerve cell’s axon—the fiber that transmits electrical impulses to other nerves or body tissues—provides an environment in which the entanglement of photons is possible.

Still need show it definitely happens, it's definitely part of the brains processing, and it's definitely where consciousness comes from.
This article is like 90% speculation.

[–] Xeroxchasechase 4 points 4 months ago

Any scientific process starts with speculations