Sure this is true in a Newtonian world, but we don't live in such a world. If there is QM in the decision making process, then that is such a game changer. My decision making process would no longer be constricted to one outcome; there would be many different possible outcomes, possibly infinite. This can be good or bad depending on how you look at it.
Nope, nothing to do with a ''Newtonian world' and all to do with the physical architecture of the brain and its function, which includes QM as the underlying scaffolding of all macro scale systems, but not necessarily the role and function of a mechanism. A car engine, for example, cannot weigh options because that is not its role/function according to its architecture...yet the QM scaffolding is common to both car engine and human brain.
Yes, but how relevant is QM in the brain, is the question. We know QM does not play a significant role in an engine because we have a thorough understanding of an engine. But we do not have a complete understanding of the decision making process.
Here is a quote (from
http://cdp.sagepub.com/content/24/3/163.abstract ) that I am not using so much as an argument for quantum processes in decision making, but just to remind you how much they presently don't understand about cognitive processes like the decision making process.
"Quantum cognition is a new research program that uses mathematical principles from quantum theory as a framework to explain human cognition, including judgment and
decision making, concepts, reasoning, memory, and perception. This research is not concerned with whether the brain is a quantum computer. Instead, it uses quantum theory as a fresh conceptual framework and a coherent set of formal tools for explaining puzzling empirical findings in psychology. In this introduction, we focus on two quantum principles as examples to show why quantum cognition is an appealing new theoretical direction for psychology: complementarity, which suggests that some psychological measures have to be made sequentially and that the context generated by the first measure can influence responses to the next one, producing measurement order effects, and superposition, which suggests that some psychological states cannot be defined with respect to definite values but, instead, that all possible values within the superposition have some potential for being expressed. We present evidence showing how these two principles work together to provide a coherent explanation for many divergent and puzzling phenomena in psychology."
This next quote from
https://www.inverse.com/article/6152-quantum-physics-explains-why-you-suck-at-making-decisions that paraphrases what Zheng Joyce Wang of Ohio State University explains,
"Before we make a choice, our options are all superpositioned. Each possibility adds a whole new layer of dimensions, making the decision process even more complicated. Under conventional approaches to psychology, the process makes no sense, but under a quantum approach, Wang argues that the decision-making process suddenly becomes clear. It’s why people might make choices they know are against their own best interests."
That quote backs up exactly what I have been saying.
Finally, as I told you in our last major discussion on this that it would only be a matter of time before QM is theorized as being theoretically possible in the neurological processes in the brain, it would seem that that has come. The full paper connected to the link explains, "A simple example with two neurons illustrating this critical link between nuclear spin entanglement
and neuron firing rates is depicted in Fig. 3d. Compound and more elaborate processes involving
multiple Posner molecules and multiple neurons are possible, and might enable complex nuclear-spin
quantum processing in the brain." ( from
https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/users/mpaf/174.pdf ).
A crucial part of my argument has always only ever been that QM processes might be involved in the decision making process, and I hope that you can finally agree with this part.
