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Photon Entanglement Drives Brain Function

by 11thEarlOfMar on 8/16/24, 4:35 PM with 13 comments

• by westurner on 8/16/24, 6:33 PM

  Traditional belief: photons do not interact with photons, photons are massless according to the mass energy relation.

  New findings: Photons interact as phonons in matter.

  "Quantum entangled photons react to Earth's spin" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40720147 :

  > Actually, photons do interact with photons; as phonons in matter: "Quantum vortices of strongly interacting photons" (2024) https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh5315 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40600762

  "New theory links quantum geometry to electron-phonon coupling" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40663966 https://phys.org/news/2024-06-theory-links-quantum-geometry-... :

  > A new study published in Nature Physics introduces a theory of electron-phonon coupling that is affected by the quantum geometry of the electronic wavefunctions

• by gryfft on 8/16/24, 4:53 PM

  > To remedy this problem, Chen and his colleagues investigated if there could be entangled photons within this axon-myelin system that could, though the magic of quantum entanglement, communicate instantly across the involved distances.

  yawn Another day, another garbage pop sci article perpetuating falsehoods about quantum entanglement.

  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-communication_theorem

• by beardyw on 8/16/24, 6:45 PM

  I had always assumed that activity in the brain was unsynchronized and that it is that which produces the necessary randomness through race conditions. I am considering the need to find synchronization as making some sort of computer analogy which doesn't exist.