The title of the post is exactly the title of the article, so I'd say it is very representative of the article. That the answer to the posed question is "no" is not misleading.
Maybe that is only what happened after we observed it. The title alone of this post blew my mind at the possibility even if not possible.
Although the hypothesis that the brain is a quantum computer is biologically and computationally
implausible, there might be psychological phenomena not amenable to a neurocomputational
explanation that are explicable by appeal to quantum theory. Penrose (1994,
598 A. Litt et al./Cognitive Science 30 (2006)
1997) and Hameroff (1998a, 1998b) argued that mathematical thinking and conscious experience
are two such phenomena.
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I was going to answer the title, with "no" - http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/brain.html - but the article itself agrees with me anyway.
So. Your title is misleading & not representative of the article, & that's annoying.
The title of the post is exactly the title of the article, so I'd say it is very representative of the article. That the answer to the posed question is "no" is not misleading.
D'oh! Sorry.
Maybe that is only what happened after we observed it. The title alone of this post blew my mind at the possibility even if not possible.
Although the hypothesis that the brain is a quantum computer is biologically and computationally implausible, there might be psychological phenomena not amenable to a neurocomputational explanation that are explicable by appeal to quantum theory. Penrose (1994, 598 A. Litt et al./Cognitive Science 30 (2006) 1997) and Hameroff (1998a, 1998b) argued that mathematical thinking and conscious experience are two such phenomena.