Daniel Oblak
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For example, bird navigation is probably the most commonly and well-established area.
So in order to sense a magnetic field, the birds use sort of molecules that have spins in them that depend on, they can sort of feel which direction the magnetic field is.
But of course, you know,
When we're thinking about quantum mechanics in the brain, you could ask ourselves, well, first of all, does it play a role?
Is there a reason to believe it plays a role?
And yeah, there are unanswered questions in neuroscience, you know, the question of consciousness.
anesthesia and the binding problem where you can say, okay, this is not really answered.
So let's enroll quantum mechanics and see if that could help.
And, you know, these spooky things that, you know, entanglement sounds a little bit like something like consciousness, but, you know, this is more like hypothesis.
And then we're looking for, okay, what is it that transmits this information?
And that's where these photons could come into play.
If
you know, all living processes, all living beings emit light even very dimly.
Well, let me say something unspooky.
Biochemistry.
Scary, yes, but spooky, not necessarily.
I mean, we could think of it a little bit like... So what is happening is that when we metabolize in our body, we're...
It's a form of combustion, right?
I mean, it's energy being converted from chemical energy to another form of energy.
And so it involves reaction, chemical reactions.