ABSTRACT
Quantum mechanics provides a theory for the behavior of elementary particles and atoms. The problem which confronted the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, concerning the behavior of subatomic particles, is best illustrated by means of the following experiment. Schrodinger’s cat escapes the dilemma of being neither dead nor alive in David Bohm’s intepretation of how the Schrodinger wave equation should be applied in quantum mechanics. Schrodinger’s cat also escapes the dilemma of being neither dead nor alive in the Gell-Mann and Zurek interpretation of how Schrodinger’s equation should be interpreted. All interpretations of quantum mechanics so far enumerated require the concept of non-local reality. A synaptic bouton may then have a paracrystalline structure which requires Schrodinger’s equation to describe its quantum states. Non-local reality may arise in a different way in the brain through quantum correlations involving phonons, as first suggested by Frohlich.
