So as I was now just researching quantum coherence and hearing perception or listening - I got a reference to John Haeglin, a T.M. (transcendental meditation) physicist who was at Stanford Particle Accelerator - so he probably knew Eddie Oshins. He then cites Lawrence Domash - who was at Hampshire College as physics professor and then went full time for Transcendental Meditation.
Small world!
Quantum noise and the threshold of hearing - Princeton University
So this was the research I was investigating -and John Haeglin cites it and then cites Domash for 1977.
So pdf link Bialek he calls it Phonon Super-radiance as an amplification and natural filtering in the inner ear as quantum coherence.
molecular vibrations exhibit a super-radiant instability....results in macroscopic quantum coherence...required to account for quantum-limited measurements in sensory systems....in accord with experiments in the sensory receptors of the inner ear....hearing is a macroquantum phenomenon....Thus, the ear not only makes use of a novel mechanism to reduce thermal noise, it possesses a device as noiseless as the uncertainty principle allows, and in this way it makes quantum-limited measurements, in spite of thermal noise. It is the presence of this device, a quantum limited amplifier, which makes the perception of sound a macroscopic quantum phenomenon....In the quantum-limited regime the phase of the signal is translated into the phase of the amplifier wavefunction, as is clearly true in Josephson junction devices, for example....they must be coherent....phonon super-radiance provides a natural means of explaining the macroscopic quantum effects....a coherent oscillation amplitude....spontaneous "beating"... at a frequency close to its resonance... will be reflected as sound emitted by the ear....microscopic mechanisms in which quantum coherence lives for a time comparable to measurement time, on the order of one millisecond. It is this results which completes the evidence in favor of Schroedinger's view of life as a macroscopic quantum phenomenon. There is simply no way to understand the sub-angstrom displacements in the inner ear without postulating a molecular mechanism in which quantum coherence is manifest on macroscopic scales of time and distance.Quantum Effects in the Dynamics of Biological Systems, 1983, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
In other words Bialek was doing quantum biology back in the 1980s - he was ahead of his time by 30 years!!
Dang that paper has some serious analysis. That dude knew his science. https://pni.princeton.edu/faculty/william-bialek So he got a 2012 Biophysics textbook published by Princeton - still going strong!
Living on a Diet of Bits! Bialek youtube
Bialek 2015 Mind/brain lecture
So it's not till 1 hr into this lecture that he says we can finally address the line between Mind and Brain and he says, I quote:
Now we're moving perhaps, somewhere across the boundary between brain and mind. One of the fundamental things that we do in the world is to decide whether the thing we're looking at is a real structure or just something that happened at random.That's a total FAKE ASSUMPTION BY A SCIENTIST!! I never "decide" whether "something happened at random." Randomness is a WESTERN MATH ASSUMPTION that this scientist has hard-wired into his brain!! haha. Hilarious!!
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