You Could Unlock Deeper Parts of Reality by Linking Your Mind With This Futuristic Device, Scientists Believe
Maybe I’m easy to please, but the promise of tasting my favorite ice cream across multiple dimensions of reality is the first thing in a long time that’s made me want to be a lab rat. Forget cold fusion or curing the common cold, let’s find out if chocolate has a hidden frequency. Neven’s idea sounds like the kind of thing you’d shout into a void after three cups of coffee at 3 a.m., and I mean that as a compliment of the highest order.
The part that gets me is the inversion of Penrose. For years the story was that consciousness emerges when quantum states collapse, a little cosmic moment that gives rise to a thought. Neven wants to catch us at the other end, in the superposition, where the mind is supposedly spread out like a fog. That’s a wild enough claim to make you wonder if he’s mostly playing with the vocabulary of mysticism to fund a very expensive machine. And the critics are probably right that the brain is too warm and wet for this to work anywhere outside of a theory.
Still, I’m rooting for him to try. Worst case, we get a definitive answer about whether neuroscience should stop borrowing from quantum mechanics. Best case, someone with a strapped-on brain helmet sees a color that doesn’t exist yet and tells us what it’s called. I just want to know what a qubit tastes like.