Some Macroscopic Applications of Georgiev’s Quantum Information Model

摘要

The goal of this paper is to review a recently published model of quantum neuroscience in which it is proposed that consciousness and free will can be explained by directly identifying consciousness with quantum entanglement and directly identifying free will with the objective reduction of a quantum entangled system. In the second part of the paper, the model is applied to two examples of neurological processing which are difficult to explain in the context of a model that denies the existence of free will, namely task set selection and selective attention. In both cases, it is shown that, if the two possible outcomes of a process are modeled as a single quantum entangled network, the selection of one outcome or the other can be explained by the free will that is inherent in the objective reduction of the network.