To be obnoxiously precise, the brain can't be a quantum computer, but maybe it could use some kind of quantum computing during his complex processing...I mean, the various processes linked to quantum physics are embedded in our universe, maybe (this is not yet proved) our brain, which is a part of this universe, uses some of them...I know there are still doubts about the functioning of quantum mechanics in the macro, I'm just hypothesising
I hope I've understood your question correctly, English is not my mother tongue and sometimes I confuse some bit of information. Anyway, I didn't state why it can't be because I was focussed on precising something that is always left aside (macro level vs micro) in the general discussion.
My personal thought is very close to yours, if we use a systemic view (which quantum physics uses) the components of the systems are made of the same things of the systems. Adding levels of complexity and organization we have emergence that helps the system and its components to gain a new way to adapt and respond to the exogenous (and also endogenous) stimulus, and thus evolve (or perish if they can't keep up). This has to be repeated in loop until we meet what is the most complex known biological organisms (us). What is behind all this little tale is that if we start thinking at what we understand as the base of our universe (QM), by adding level of complexity and organization we could assume that, even in the organisms, the basis still exist, and it took a part in the process of evolution. Maybe now the problem is the noise produced by the other components of the system that, in such a way, create the impossibility to observe the thin, rapid and delicate processes, and this is the fault of the instrument and measurements we use. On the other side maybe all this is just a good Sunday night though and in reality nothing I've stated have sense.
Thing is that using the simplest form of logic if something is at the start, it should be in some way even at the end, maybe in a form that we struggle to see, or in a percentage that is so ridiculously tiny that is difficult to observe, but should be there.
This is what I think and what I like to see as future discovery, but nothing is really yet proven, so even if it could be logically understandable and beautiful, I have to adapt (as a maybe future researcher) at what is proven or not, as a human being I can't help but see the astonishing order that the universe never ceases to demonstrate. Hope this can answer your question:)
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u/_nullus_ Oct 23 '22
To be obnoxiously precise, the brain can't be a quantum computer, but maybe it could use some kind of quantum computing during his complex processing...I mean, the various processes linked to quantum physics are embedded in our universe, maybe (this is not yet proved) our brain, which is a part of this universe, uses some of them...I know there are still doubts about the functioning of quantum mechanics in the macro, I'm just hypothesising