Possible Superconductivity in the Brain

Abstract

The unprecedented power of brain suggests that it may process information quantum-mechanically. Since quantum processing is already achieved in superconducting quantum computers, it may imply that superconductivity is the basis of quantum computation in brain too. Superconductivity could also be responsible for long-term memory. Following these ideas, the paper reviews the progress in the search for superconductors with high critical temperature and tries to answer the question about the superconductivity in brain. It focuses on recent electrical measurements of brain slices, in which graphene was used as a room-temperature quantum mediator, and argues that these measurements could be regarded as evidence of superconductivity in the neural network of mammalian brains. The estimated critical temperature of superconducting network in the brains is rather high: 2063±114 K. A similar critical temperature was predicted in the Little's model for one-dimensional organic chains linked to certain molecular complexes. A reasonable suggestion is that superconductivity develops in microtubules inside the neurons of brain.

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Electrical and Magnetic Behavior of GdOH Thin Films: A Search for Hydrogen Anion Superconductivity

“…It is interesting that superconductivity with Tc even higher than room temperature was predicted in hydrogen-based quasi one-dimensional chains of organic molecules [5], and first experimental data start to appear confirming this prediction [6]. According to these data, superconductivity could be common in biological systems and most likely resides in microtubules filled with water, or rather tightly-confined hydrogen-oxygen chains [6]. If, like in other hydrides, hydrogen in these chains could be in anion form, it may allow, due to the presence of oxygen, its fluctuation between cation and anion states resulting in oscillations of charge and electron-electron interaction necessary for very high Tc, as in the model of Little [5].…”

“…It is interesting that superconductivity with Tc even higher than room temperature was predicted in hydrogen-based quasi one-dimensional chains of organic molecules [5], and first experimental data start to appear confirming this prediction [6]. According to these data, superconductivity could be common in biological systems and most likely resides in microtubules filled with water, or rather tightly-confined hydrogen-oxygen chains [6].…”