{"id":3725,"date":"2010-01-13T18:34:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=3725"},"modified":"2010-01-13T18:34:39","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T01:34:39","slug":"entangled-in-the-membrane-entangled-in-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/01\/13\/entangled-in-the-membrane-entangled-in-the-brain\/","title":{"rendered":"Entangled in the Membrane, Entangled in the Brain?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><del>Bad<\/del> New Scientist has an article up today entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18371-brain-entanglement-could-explain-memories.html\">Brain &#8216;entanglement&#8217; could explain memories<\/a>, which certainly must have sent Roger Penrose&#8217;s brain into a state of multiple correlated back-flips (twistor flips?)  However, from the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum entanglement, or &#8220;spooky action at a distance&#8221;, could help explain how our minds combine experiences from many different senses into one memory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>First of all, damnit New Scientist, entanglement is not just between &#8220;subatomic particles.&#8221;  Second of all, the effect described is as similar to spooky action at a distance as the fact that when you look at my feet you&#8217;ll most likely see that I have the same color sock on both of my feet.  To suggest that the effect described in <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosbiology\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pbio.1000278\">this PLOS biology paper<\/a> where they observed correlated local field potential mesurements in a monkey&#8217;s brain has got anything to do with quantum entanglement is&#8230;well&#8230;just plain wrong.<br \/>\n(Which is not to say that quantum effects might not arise in the brain: we simply don&#8217;t have any evidence of such effects and speculations about such effects arising are, so far, physically implausible.  I.e. that&#8217;s how a scientist says: probably not, but I&#8217;m always ready to change my opinion with some good hard evidence.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bad New Scientist has an article up today entitled Brain &#8216;entanglement&#8217; could explain memories, which certainly must have sent Roger Penrose&#8217;s brain into a state of multiple correlated back-flips (twistor flips?) However, from the article: Subatomic particles do it. Now the observation that groups of brain cells seem to have their own version of quantum &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/01\/13\/entangled-in-the-membrane-entangled-in-the-brain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Entangled in the Membrane, Entangled in the Brain?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-quantum-basterdizations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}