Theos-Talk Archives (January 2009 Message tt00524)

Don't we have that Qmach's in ourselves?
Why we firstly need to look outside us?
Christina





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> Subject: [Think-Aboutit] DISCOVER MAGAZINE: DO QUATUM MECHANICS 
CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS? IS IT RESPONSIBLE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS, TOO?
> To: "All my contacts" <Susoni@...>
> Received: Thursday, 22 January, 2009, 8:09 AM
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> DISCOVER MAGAZINE: DO QUATUM MECHANICS CONTROL YOUR THOUGHTS? IS IT 
RESPONSIBLE FOR CONSCIOUSNESS, TOO? 
> Posted By: Susoni 
> Date: Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 4:01 p.m. 
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> .. or are you controlling Quantum fluctuations? 
> This is a compelling article on how our thoughts could move 
particles within the quantum world. Science is catching up. Finally! 
> Susoni 
> Energy moves in all directions until it has to narrow and make a 
'choice' within  the 3D material world. 
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> Is Quantum Mechanics Controlling Your Thoughts? 
> Science's weirdest realm may be responsible for photosynthesis, our 
sense of smell, and even consciousness itself. 
> by Mark Anderson 
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> On the face of things, quantum mechanics and the biological 
sciences do not mix. 
> Quantum mechanics holds that any given particle has a chance of 
being in a whole range of locations and, in a sense, occupies all 
those places at once. Physicists describe quantum reality in an 
equation they call the wave function, which reflects all the 
potential ways a system can evolve. Until a scientist measures the 
system, a particle exists in its multitude of locations. But at the 
time of measurement, the particle has to â??chooseâ?? just a single spot. 
At that point, quantum physicists say, probability narrows to a 
single outcome and the wave function â??collapses,â?? sending ripples of 
certainty through space-time. Imposing certainty on one particle 
could alter the characteristics of any others it has been connected 
with, even if those particles are now light-years away. (This process 
of influence at a distance is what physicists call entanglement. ) As 
in a game of dominoes, alteration of one particle affects the next 
one, and so on. 
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> The implications of all this are mind-bending. In the macro world, 
a ball never spontaneously shoots itself over a wall. In the quantum 
world, though, an electron in one biomolecule might hop to a second 
biomolecule, even though classical laws of physics hold that the 
electrons are too tightly bound to leave. The phenomenon of hopping 
across seemingly forbidden gaps is called quantum tunneling. 
> From tunneling to entanglement, the special properties of the 
quantum realm allow events to unfold at speeds and efficiencies that 
would be unachievable with classical physics alone. Could quantum 
mechanisms be driving some of the most elegant and inexplicable 
processes of life? 
> Unlike electric power lines, which lose as much as 20 percent of 
energy in transmission, these bacteria transmit energy at a 
staggering efficiency rate of 95 percent or better. 
> The secret, Fleming and his colleagues found, is quantum physics. 
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> To unearth the bacteriaâ??s inner workings, the researchers zapped 
the connective proteins with multiple ultrafast laser pulses. Over a 
span of femto­seconds, they followed the light energy through the 
scaffolding to the cellular reaction centers where energy conversion 
takes place. 
> Then came the revelation: Instead of haphazardly moving from one 
connective channel to the next, as might be seen in classical 
physics, energy traveled in several directions at the same time. The 
researchers theorized that only when the energy had reached the end 
of the series of connections could an efficient pathway retroactively 
be found. At that point, the quantum process collapsed, and the 
electronsâ?? energy followed that single, most effective path. 
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> QUANTUM TO THE CORE 
> Stuart Hameroff, an anesthesiologist and director of the Center for 
Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, argues that the 
highest function of lifeâ?"consciousnessâ?" is likely a quantum 
phenomenon too. This is illustrated, he says, through anesthetics. 
The brain of a patient under anesthesia continues to operate 
actively, but without a conscious mind at work. What enables 
anesthetics such as xenon or isoflurane gas to switch off the 
conscious mind? 
> Hameroff speculates that anesthetics â??interrupt a delicate quantum 
processâ?? within the neurons of the brain. Each neuron contains 
hundreds of long, cylindrical protein structures, called 
microtubules, that serve as scaffolding. Anesthetics, Hameroff says, 
dissolve inside tiny oily regions of the microtubules, affecting how 
some electrons inside these regions behave. 
> He speculates that the action unfolds like this: When certain key 
electrons are in one â??place,â?? call it to the â??left,â?? part of the 
microtubule is squashed; when the electrons fall to the â??right,â?? the 
section is elongated. But the laws of quantum mechanics allow for 
electrons to be both â??leftâ?? and â??rightâ?? at the same time, and thus 
for the micro­tubules to be both elongated and squashed at once. Each 
section of the constantly shifting system has an impact on other 
sections, potentially via quantum entanglement, leading to a dynamic 
quantum-mechanical dance. 
> It is in this faster-than- light subatomic communication, Hameroff 
says, that consciousness is born. Anesthetics get in the way of the 
dancing electrons and stop the gyration at its quantum-mechanical 
core; that is how they are able to switch consciousness off. 
> It's a long article, these are just interesting snips. To read the 
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