[pmontra]

I agree with you that picking quantum was probably the fad of the time and it was an easy pick as quantum is everywhere. He cold have said "electrons". However the argument against unknown physics is not very sound IMHO.

There has been unknown physics at play inside brains since forever and it still is and always will be, by definition of science.

The point is that we don't even know how to define consciousness and humanity doesn't have a shared agreement about which living beings are conscious or are not. We're still like engineers building things millennia or centuries ago with only a shadow of a theory of why their creations worked. And yet we still walk on bridges from 2000 years ago and we had electric batteries and power plants before knowing how an electro magnetic wave moved.

[russdill]

If it were known that there where physical interactions occurring within the brain that deviated from the standard model, we wouldn't bother building didn't colliders.

[sarchertech]

Even if the brain showed a real deviation from the Standard Model, we’d still need colliders. The brain is a messy, low energy environment, and observation isn’t identification.

Colliders provide clean, high energy tests to pin down masses, spins, and couplings, and we already need them for open problems. A bio anomaly would set targets, not replace colliders.