Comment by secrets9876 on 23/08/2022 at 14:29 UTC

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View submission: Do quantum mechanical effects have any physiological consequences for how our brains work?

It is actually less than you might hope. Production of ATP requires quantum effects to work. Some protein folding relies on quantum physics. Neuron firing may be affected by quantum effects of electrons. But the vast majority of physiology is adequately described by classical descriptions and E&M.

The reason for this is that our fundamental chemistry is on the scale of atoms, which is too big for a lot of quantum effects to matter.

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