Your Brain Is A Quantum Computer?

Could it be that the Internet mirrors something about how we really communicate (or could communicate) with each other and with the world?

To understand how our brain could communicate with a natural information field that embeds us and all things around us, let’s explore how our brain developed, and how it functions. How did it evolve its precise and stupendously complex architecture? And how did it grow into a quantum computer?

Amazingly, our brain had almost all of its 100 billion neurons in place the day we were born, and some 250,000 of those neurons were born every minute while we were in the womb. Moreover, the connections among the neurons are so dense that during the entire time we were in the womb 30,000 synapses were created every second to fill every square centimeter of the cortical surface. The entire evolving assembly was astonishingly precise: our brain has exactly the same structure as all human brains — even a small variation from the norm would have been lethal.

Biochemical processes alone could never have coordinated this exacting process with such speed and precision. It seems that the human brain develops through an instantaneous, nonlocal exchange of information via the process known in physics as entanglement. Our brain is an entangled “macroscopic quantum system”, and it functions as a “quantum computer”.

There is further evidence to support this conclusion. The human brain appears to have an enormous — and conventionally inexplicable — capacity for storing information. Famed mathematician John von Neumann calculated that during an average lifetime of seventy years we accumulate some 280 trillion bits of information. This volume of information doesn’t just disappear without a trace: evidence from psychotherapy and research on non-ordinary states of consciousness shows that all, or almost all, of the information is retrievable. This means that potentially everything we have ever experienced in our lifetime can be recalled. And if it can be recalled, then it must be stored somehow, somewhere.

While this is obviously true, the storage repository is not necessarily within our brain. How can a network of neurons no larger than 1400 cubic centimeters store 280 trillion bits of information? There is no explanation for this in terms of standard biochemical and biophysical processes.

A nonstandard explanation of the puzzle is daring but logical. Not only are the neurons of our brain thoroughly entangled with each other—so that they can assemble and then process information with lightning speed—they are also entangled with the world beyond our brain. The logical conclusion is that the bulk of the information picked up and processed by the brain is not stored within the brain; it’s stored in the vast information field that embeds the brain. This cosmically extended natural Internet I have called Akashic Field, for it connects all things, and is the memory of all things, just like the legendary Akashic Chronicles. It’s into this Akashic information field that our brain stores all the things we experience, and, except for the items of our short-term memory (which are known to be stored within the brain), it’s from this field that it reads them out again.

This is a staggering possibility, and it has enormous practical implications. If our brain does use “phase-conjugate quantum resonance” to access information — the process by which microparticles once connected remain “nonlocally entangled” — then we should indeed be able to open the roof. Our brain would then be a broadband receiver that picks up information both from our senses, and from the world at large. And the latter kind of information is, by definition, extrasensory.

The implications embrace not only our view and experience of the world, but also our behavior and wellbeing in the world. Because if in the “phase-conjugate quantum resonance” mode our brain is sending information into, and receiving information from, the Akashic information field, it not only links all parts of our body and creates coordination and harmony among them, it also links our body and our brain with the rest of the world, thus creating coordination and harmony between us and the rest of the world.

Why Your Brain Is A Quantum Computer

Scientists have believed that the brain operates as a biochemical and bioelectric system. Individual brain cells, so-called neurons, fire in complex coordinated patterns, and their chemical and electrical discharges make up a network that processes information. Somehow, this information (or some part of it) gets translated into conscious “mind-events”: shapes and colors, sounds, and the other “data” of your senses.

Thousands of chemical reactions take place every second in every cell of your body, and your brain and nervous system ensure that they are sufficiently coherent and coordinated so that your body can maintain itself in the complex and physically highly improbable state we call living. Your brain is the command center that directs the flow of the precise, highly coordinated information crucial to your body’s genetic, chemical, and physiological processes. Some theories claim that specifically organized networks of quanta —for example, networks where the particles are “woven” or “braided”— are sufficiently robust to maintain quantum coherence at macroscopic dimensions and ordinary temperatures. In other words, the dance continues even when the particles are organized into larger systems like a human brain or body.

This makes sense because living systems exhibit highly and until recently inexplicably coherent behavior. Their cells and organs resonate in phase, and the entire living organism seems to obey one encompassing “macroscopic wave-function”. In other words, instead of functioning like a bunch of cells and chemicals each doing their own thing unaware of each other, all the biochemical and bioelectric dance in superb coordination acts like a giant wave which moves and flows as one, despite the many individual droplets that are within it.

This means that your body is not just a biochemical system: it’s also a macroscopic quantum system. Your brain is not just a bioelectric and biochemical computer, but also a quantum computer.

The cells of your body, and the neurons and networks of neurons of your brain, are entangled with each other. This is why your brain can perform functions that are entire dimensions beyond the capacity of any conceivable biochemical system. If and when quantum computers are developed, we may for the first time see man-made systems that come close to matching your brain’s information-processing powers.

A Space for Reflection

Studies in macro-cellular biology have discovered that if you place two living heart cells next to each other – not touching, but just a short distance apart – they very quickly begin to beat in unison. They start off each contracting, pulsing, at their own rhythm, and very soon they are doing it at the same time, even though they aren’t touching! But if there are disturbances in the environment, such as electric impulses or swirls of ionized water flowing around them, they won’t sync up. So what is it that connects them? Clearly, they somehow tune to each other, but how?

Imagine you are a heart cell, beating out the rhythm of your life. You are aware of all the other cells around you, beating out their rhythms too. And what if you knew that something as fantastic and amazing as a heart were possible -something that could pump massive amounts of blood and animate an entire body- if only you would beat as one? That type of super-coherence is possible for us as a species, not only possible, but vitally necessary if we are to shift out of our disconnected, dispirited, and destructive mode of strident individualism.