Why the brain is probably not a quantum computer

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Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 155-179

  Tegmark, Max ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); POLARIZATION;

QUANTUM COHERENCE; QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 0034301265     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(00)00051-7     Document Type: Article

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