摘要：
Textbooks tell us that our brain is the source of all thought. Like
a computer, we learn to react and make decisions based on past programming
and what we have learned from our environment. However, now scientists
like Henry StaPgrngfrom Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and
Stuart Hameroff from the University of Arizona are researching brain
functions that work beyond classical physics. They are no longer
content with seeing thought as being simply the chemical processing
of neurotransmitters. What has emerged are theoretical proposals
that the brain’s processing of information takes place through
quantum mechanical processes where consciousness, itself, is being
seen as part of a second-order quantum field.
Quantum mechanical processes have provided researchers with an entirely
new field of understanding of thought and memory processes. They
are examining the chemical processes in the ionic flow of elements
(e.g., in actin filaments) which are equally if not more complex
than the chemical neurological processes. In quantum mechanics,
electrons behave like waves. In a quantum world, there exists also
the wave-particle duality of matter, where the wave can contain
all the dynamical information about the system, in the manner of
a hologram. This means that the total information of the system
is available in every part and information becomes active in a “non-local”
environment. “Non-locality” reveals that photons can
exist simultaneously in an infinite number of locations or quantum
states within the wave showing measurable interactions at a distance.
