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26 Jan 2021
Taken from the January 2021 issue of Physics World where it appeared under the headline "The light of the mind".

The role of biophotons in the brain is a growing area of research in neurobiology – and where there are photons there might be quantum mechanics. Betony Adams and Francesco Petruccione explore this developing, and contentious, field of quantum biophysics

The light of the mind is blue, wrote the poet Sylvia Plath (“The Moon and the Yew Tree” 1961). B

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