Quantum physics has been proposed to be part of the solution for the mystery of consciousness. In particular the holistic character of quantum entanglement might provide an answer to the binding problem14. In the 1990s, Penrose and Hameroff proposed a theory of consciousness based on quantum computations in MTs15,16,17,18. Computational modeling suggested that electron resonance transfer among aromatic amino acid tryptophan (Trp) rings in tubulin (subunits of MTs) in a quantum electronic process could play roles in consciousness19. Craddock et al. showed that anesthetic molecules might bind in the same regions and hence result in loss of consciousness20. In a recent experiment, Zhang et al. observed a connection between electronic states and vibrational states in tubulin and MTs21. However, quantum electronic coherence beyond ultrafast timescales demands more supporting evidence and has been recently challenged experimentally22. In contrast, quantum spin coherence could be preserved for much longer timescales23. For example, Fisher has proposed that phosphorus nuclear spins could be entangled in networks of Posner molecules, , which could form the basis of a quantum mechanism for neural processing in the brain24. However, this particular spin-based model also requires more supporting evidence and recently has faced experimental challenges25.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-10068-4

Most people just can't understand that shit, so when someone talks about it in easy to use terms, it sounds "a little hippy".

Like, that's where the hippies got their words from in the first place bro...

"Vibing" is an accurate scientific description of two consciousnesses that are agreeable with each other. The people saying it don't always understand it, but most of what "hippies" say about consciousness is pretty fucking accurate.

Why not leave consciousness alone

Why keep insisting the people who always used the term correctly stop because it doesn't match the simplified version you were taught decades ago in jr high?

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The forced degradation of words is unhelpful, a word will still be needed to differentiate the unparalleled state of mind from the emerging properties of complex systems. Concepts like consciousness and God are often commandeered to peddle tenuous ideas to the great unwashed and it is ultimately unsustainable. And while we are about it computational modelling is a license to find what you want to find.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

The forced degradation of words is unhelpful

Then stop doing it...

You're trying to make people who use the word correctly stop, because you never knew what it meant.

And of fucking course youre plugging chat it's now.