Possibility to Realize the Brain-Computer Interface from the Quantum Brain Model Based on Superluminal Particles

Abstract

R. Penrose and S. Hameroff have proposed an idea that the brain can attain high efficient quantum computation by functioning of microtubular structure of neurons in the cytoskelton of biological cells, including neurons of the brain. But Tegmark estimated the duration of coherence of a quantum state in a warm wet brain to be on the order of 10<sup>>–13 </supseconds, which is far smaller than the one tenth of a second associated with consciousness. Contrary to his calculation, it can be shown that the microtubule in a biological brain can perform computation satisfying the time scale required for quantum computation to achieve large quantum bits calculation compared with the conventional silicon processors even at the room temperature from the assumption that tunneling photons are superluminal particles called tachyons. According to the non-local property of tachyons, it is considered that the tachyon field created inside the brain has the capability to exert an influence around the space outside the brain and it functions as a macroscopic quantum dynamical system to meditate the long-range physical correlations with the surrounding world. From standpoint of the brain model based on superluminal tunneling photons, the authors theoretically searched for the possibility to realize the brain-computer interface that allows paralyzed patient to operate computers by their thoughts and they obtained the positive result for its realization from the experiments conducted by using the prototype of a brain-computer interface system

A survey of quantum-like approaches to decision making and cognition

“…Of course, there is a research trend that suggests the human brain to work like a quantum computer (Musha and Sugiyama, 2011;Hameroff, 2011;Alfinito and Vitiello, 2000;Yasue, 1995, 1993). But, such claims are still highly controversial and many researchers criticize the findings related to them (Litt et al, 2006;Tegmark, 2000a,b).…”