Achilles’ Heels of the “Orch OR” Model

Khoshbin-e-Khoshnazar, M. R.

doi:10.14704/nq.2007.5.1.123

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“…In photon echo technique a short laser pulse in sent to the system being followed by another pulse from the same source. If quantum coherence is occurring in the system, a delayed photon (echo) is detected after the detection of a photon, and the quantum coherent state should be preserved through the neural processing by optical waveguides, the microtubules, following many authors (Wolf and Hameroff, 2001;Khoshbin-e-Khoshnazar, 2007;Pizzi et al, 2010). This experiment is very difficult, and to our knowledge it has not been realized, yet.…”

Section: Quantum Coherence In the Retinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Quantum Superposition in the Retina: Evidences and Proposals

Khoshbin-e-Khoshnazar¹,

Pizzi²

2014

Neuroquantology

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The retina is a light-sensitive layer structured as an array of millions of individual receptors that act as nano-antennas for photons. Apparently, the retina is one of the best known quantum detectors due to the rod cells that are able to respond to a single photon. It appears that the retina is an excellent photon detector and it can be hypothesized that quantum processing of information occurs within the retina and subsequent processing of information at the level of neural membranes decrease the overall quantum efficiency. In this article we review some evidences of quantum processing in retina and propose some experiments and ideas to detect quantum superposition in the retina. Actually, if the retina may involve quantum process, it is reasonable that the conventional tools of quantum spectroscopy could bring an unambiguous proof of this claim. Indeed, aim of this work is to show some methods to induce and verify the existence of quantum superposition in biological systems, more specifically the rodopsin molecules in the rod cells.

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Section: Quantum Coherence In the Retinamentioning

confidence: 99%