In attempts to explore the physical basis of consciousness and cognitive processes, there are discourses that connect the “electroencephalogram (EEG),” a macroscopic indicator of brain activity, with microscopic “quantum mechanisms (quantum observation and wave packet collapse)”. However, within the classical framework, there exists a massive discontinuity (gap) in scale and decoherence time between the two. In this paper, we compare the physical principles of EEG measurement with the concept of observation in quantum mechanics, and organize that gap. Furthermore, based on the paradigm that a biological system is not a “computer” computing specific algorithms but an “in vivo analog quantum synchronizer (phase synchronizer: Bio-QPU),” we introduce the mitochondrial electrostatic shield, Quantum Pulse Communication (QPC) via microtubules, and chemical triggers by the autonomous analog tuner (Glial OS). Through this, we model that EEG is not the quantum state itself, but rather that “decoherence,” which is considered an error in artificial computers, acts as an advanced recording and extraction function for specific dimensions (selective decoherence), projecting as a “macroscopic heat dissipation (shadow)” onto the classical system, and we propose this as a testable hypothesis that overcomes the computer metaphor.
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