Ontological implications of quantum brain dynamics

Gordon G. Globus, Elena Bezzubova

Paavo Pylkkänen

This article discusses the prospects of quantum psychiatry from a Bohmian point of view, which provides an ontological interpretation of quantum theory, and extends such ontology to include mind. At first, we discuss the more general relevance of quantum theory to psychopathology. The basic idea is that because quantum theory emphasizes the role of wholeness, it might be relevant to psychopathology, where breakdown of unity in the mental domain is a key feature. We then discuss the role of information in psychopathology, and consider the connections with quantum theory in this area. In particular, we discuss David Bohm’s notion of active information, which arises in the ontological interpretation of quantum theory, and is suggested to play a fundamental role as the bridge between mind and matter. Some such bridge is needed if we are to understand how subtle mental properties are able to influence more manifest physical properties in the brain (all the way to the molecular and possibly microtubular level), and how changes in those possibly quantum‐level physical processes are able to influence higher cognitive functions. We also consider the implications of the notion of active information for psychopathology. The prospects of implementing the Bohmian scheme in neuroquantal terms are then briefly considered. Finally, we discuss some possible therapeutic implications of Bohm’s approach to information and the relation of mind and matter.

Gordon G. Globus

Mohsen Ostovari, Abolfazl Alipour, Alireza Mehdizadeh

Entanglement is an integral part of the quantum information processing and quantum computations that have been proposed to take place in the brain. Microtubules and photons are agents that have been mainly discussed as related factors in quantum computations of the brain. In the present article, we report the dynamical behaviour of entanglement between Tubulin states and bio-photons and their implication for the previously proposed memory storage in Microtubules. We had used Von-Neumann entropy to quantified entanglement and we showed that the degree of such entanglements depend on coupling constant (/Lambda ), detuning (/Delta ) and number of bio-photons. The entanglement between bio-photon and tubulin in human brain is controlled by coupling constant in different parts of brain.

Gordon G. Globus, Tere Vadén

Quantum Closures and Disclosures thinks together two seemingly irreconcilable discourses: An application of quantum field theory to brain functioning, called quantum brain dynamics, and the continental postphenomenological tradition, especially the work of Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. Underlying both developments is a new ontology of nonCartesian dual modes whose rich provenance is their World is disclosed in the lumen naturale of dual modes belonging-together in their between; all presencing is a function of a ~conjugate form of match in the between. This surprising rapprochement between a powerful tradition within continental philosophy and the 20th-century quantum revolution in science is fruitfully applied to crucial issues in philosophy, brain science, mathematics and psychiatry. Related Titles: Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An introduction , edited by Mari Jibu and Kunio Yasue (1995), and My Double Unveiled: The dissipative quantum model of the brain , by Giuseppe Vitiello (2001)

F. Beck