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Originally Posted by alternative3
... I distinguish active and passive as having the ability to control the quantum mind to interface, encode, and manipulate our environment versus ... whatever we do now, if quantum mechanics apply to brain function.
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Although you'll get into massive painful debates with the Determinists, quantum effects do bubble up in all matter including the brain, the main interesting implication of that being that it introduces randomness into the functions describing complex models.
I think you can make use of this, and it applies to "passive" brains.
But this concept is about "randomness" which is somewhat of an antonym of "control."
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Originally Posted by alternative3
... I want to come up with a scenario that allows my characters to be able to actively manipulate a localized pocket of space-time. ... I just want to see if there's any kind of theoretical way for a quantum brain to be able to interface with the universe first of all.
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Another aspect of "quantum" is what Einstein derisively referred to as
"spooky action at a distance" due to the
quantum entanglement of particles that are moved away from each other. This if one were able to control the quantum state of parts of your brain, it could be used to affect a "localized pocket of space-time." Right now, causing the initial entanglement has to be done with the particles initially in close proximity, but you may be able to find a way around it!
This is definitely fertile ground, and on one of the pages linked above, there's an interesting
article from IBM Research on "Quantum Teleportation"...
Sounds like you're having fun!
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it,
Buffy
