A quantum mechanical explanation for auditory-visual hallucinations

IF 2.1 4区医学 Q3 MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL

Medical hypotheses Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.mehy.2024.111554

Liam Greenacre

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Abstract

Auditory-visual hallucinations might be caused by Quantum Mechanics. The Many-Worlds Interpretation suggests those who have hallucinations might be experiencing alternate realities due to the unique nature of the quantum. Hallucinations, in part to their quantum nature, are neither biological or social-environmental. On the other hand, the scholarship on the origin of Auditory-Visual Hallucinations usually focuses on either the biological or the social-environmental. There is a range of evidence to suggest that quantum mechanics operates in the brain, like EEGs and the nature of mental states, but the social dynamic is introduced via the Many-Worlds Interpretation. The hypothesis that hallucinations are the result of the Many-Worlds Interpretation is reached through a consideration of quantum biology, optics and acoustics. The proposed hypothesis allows us to consider potential therapeutic and medical benefits of the theory, potentially improving the lives of patients via potential technologies or through reducing the trivialisation of their experiences.

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对视听幻觉的量子力学解释

视听幻觉可能是由量子力学引起的。多世界解释认为，由于量子的独特性质，那些产生幻觉的人可能正在经历另一种现实。幻觉，就其量子性质而言，既不是生物的，也不是社会环境的。另一方面，关于视听幻觉起源的学术研究通常集中在生物或社会环境方面。有一系列证据表明，量子力学在大脑中运作，就像脑电图和精神状态的本质一样，但社会动态是通过多世界解释引入的。幻觉是多世界解释的结果这一假说是通过量子生物学、光学和声学的综合考虑而得出的。提出的假设使我们能够考虑该理论的潜在治疗和医学益处，通过潜在的技术或通过减少他们的经历的琐细化，潜在地改善患者的生活。

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Medical hypotheses 医学-医学：研究与实验

CiteScore

10.60

自引率

2.10%

发文量

167

审稿时长

60 days

期刊介绍： Medical Hypotheses is a forum for ideas in medicine and related biomedical sciences. It will publish interesting and important theoretical papers that foster the diversity and debate upon which the scientific process thrives. The Aims and Scope of Medical Hypotheses are no different now from what was proposed by the founder of the journal, the late Dr David Horrobin. In his introduction to the first issue of the Journal, he asks ''what sorts of papers will be published in Medical Hypotheses? and goes on to answer ''Medical Hypotheses will publish papers which describe theories, ideas which have a great deal of observational support and some hypotheses where experimental support is yet fragmentary''. (Horrobin DF, 1975 Ideas in Biomedical Science: Reasons for the foundation of Medical Hypotheses. Medical Hypotheses Volume 1, Issue 1, January-February 1975, Pages 1-2.). Medical Hypotheses was therefore launched, and still exists today, to give novel, radical new ideas and speculations in medicine open-minded consideration, opening the field to radical hypotheses which would be rejected by most conventional journals. Papers in Medical Hypotheses take a standard scientific form in terms of style, structure and referencing. The journal therefore constitutes a bridge between cutting-edge theory and the mainstream of medical and scientific communication, which ideas must eventually enter if they are to be critiqued and tested against observations.