Discussion
Thousands of neuroscientist collect new results every year gaining more insights about how the brain works. However, despite the collective efforts, there is still much progress to be made in tackling the big questions. Could this be the case because dominant concepts in neuroscience, which were developed 50 to more than 100 years ago, are outdated \cite{Stern_2017}?
If yes, then we have to allow even small hints, which contradict the overwhelming flood of information based on old concepts, to be considered. We have shown here, how such clues which are easy to overlook can change those concepts fundamentally but also may reveal unknown brain networks.
We combined little basic knowledge of the brain with the observation of a quantum coherence during consciousness to conclude that the brain must be a quantum computer. This new concept has not found many followers over the years because it moves radically away from known concepts in mind and even quantum mind. However, topological computing is maybe the most obvious, natural, and fundamental known concept which could be applied to the mind.
We started with philological considerations about how we experience life. The introduction of an unknown computational network which is disconnected from direct access via neurones could explain the notion of dualisms in the philosophy of mind. We proposed a network which is out of reach for the human observer because it works in different space and time scales which is not directly accessible through neurones.