© Neuroscience-Net Volume 2, Article #10011

Received September 20, 1996 Accepted for Publication December 09, 1996 Published January 03, 1997

Neurobiological investigations are rapidly approaching, or perhaps have even reached, the size scale at which quantum phenomena may be observable. One such phenomenon is the collapse of the quantum wave function, which one school of physics has long thought to be a brain process. In this commentary, possible neural mechanisms of wave function collapse and their relation to human conscious experience are considered, as well as their potential involvement in neuropathologies that may be quantum mechanical in nature. Other interpretations of quantum mechanics and their relevance to neuroscience are also discussed.