Twins, Telepathy & Quantum Entanglement: The 31.6% Learning Boost Science Can’t Ignore

Identical twins have reported strange connections for as long as anyone’s bothered to ask them. One feels pain when the other is injured. Dreams synchronize across continents. Emotions mirror without communication. Science has consistently filed these reports under “anecdotal” and moved on to more respectable research.

In March 2025, a study published in Computational and Structural Biotechnology changed that trajectory dramatically. Researchers at Comillas Pontifical University analyzed 106 pairs of monozygotic twins and demonstrated that quantum entanglement conditions enhanced their learning performance by up to 31.6 percent. The twins weren’t just genetically identical—under specific quantum conditions, their cognitive processes became statistically entangled.

The Experiment That Shouldn’t Have Worked

Professor Álex Escolà-Gascón designed an experiment that most materialist neuroscientists would have dismissed outright. Using IBM’s Brisbane quantum supercomputer, his team created two distinct quantum circuits: one generating entangled qubits, the other producing non-entangled control conditions.

Twin pairs were separated and randomly assigned to either the entangled or control group. Each participant completed 144 trials of an implicit learning task involving visual stimuli.

The twist?

The quantum circuits manipulated stimulus contingencies under nonlocal conditions—meaning the entangled qubits were correlated regardless of physical separation between twins. Twins in the entangled condition didn’t just perform better. They performed dramatically better, with entanglement explaining 13.5 percent of variance in accuracy. Their neural responses, measured through 3D electroencephalography, showed heightened correlation compared to control pairs. The quantum conditions weren’t just affecting abstract particles—they were measurably influencing human cognition.

Introducing the Q Coefficient

Traditional statistics weren’t designed to measure quantum effects on consciousness. Escolà-Gascón’s team developed something new: the Quantum-Multilinear Integrated Coefficient, or Q coefficient. This metric estimates variance increases attributable specifically to quantum entanglement effects within response matrices. The Q coefficient captured up to 31.6 percent increase in variance across twin responses under entangled conditions.

That’s not statistical noise. That’s a substantial effect size that demands explanation. Additionally, biomarkers told their own story. Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF)—a protein associated with neuroplasticity and learning—showed a 26.2 percent increase in cognitive performance under entangled conditions. The twins’ brains weren’t just processing information similarly; they were physically adapting in correlated patterns.

Why Identical Twins Were the Key

The decision to study monozygotic twins wasn’t arbitrary. These individuals share identical DNA, providing natural controls for genetic variables that typically confound consciousness research. But there’s something deeper. Anecdotal reports of twin telepathy have persisted across cultures and centuries.

Escolà-Gascón’s team suspected these reports might reflect genuine quantum correlations rather than coincidence or confirmation bias. “If the power of evolution was looking for handy action over a distance, quantum entanglement would be an ideal candidate,” noted Yong-Cong Chen in related research. Twins, sharing identical genetic architecture, might possess nervous systems particularly susceptible to quantum correlation. The study’s methodology essentially asked: if we enhance quantum entanglement conditions externally, do twins show measurably enhanced cognitive correlation? The answer was unambiguously yes.

Anticipating the Unpredictable

Perhaps the most unsettling finding involved what researchers termed “anomalous cognitive mechanisms.” Twins in the entangled condition demonstrated enhanced ability to anticipate future, unpredictable stimuli. Read that again slowly. Under quantum entanglement conditions, participants showed statistically significant improvement at predicting random events. This ventures into territory that mainstream science has spent decades avoiding. Precognition. Presentiment.

The ability to access information about events that haven’t occurred yet. Escolà-Gascón’s team frames this carefully as “anomalous cognition,” but the implications are staggering. If consciousness can access quantum entanglement—and entanglement operates outside classical time constraints—then consciousness might not be bound by linear temporality. Ancient traditions describing prophetic abilities, precognitive dreams, and intuitive knowing suddenly acquire a quantum mechanical framework.

The Consciousness Wars Heat Up

This study lands in the middle of what Nature magazine dubbed “The Consciousness Wars”—ongoing scientific battles over how mind emerges from matter. Integrated Information Theory, Global Workspace Theory, and Higher-Order theories have competed for dominance without resolution. Quantum consciousness theories, particularly the Penrose-Hameroff Orchestrated Objective Reduction model, have faced decades of skepticism.

Critics argued the brain was too warm, too wet, too chaotic for quantum effects to persist. The twin study joins mounting evidence that critics may have been profoundly wrong. Quantum effects don’t just persist in biological systems—they appear to influence cognition in measurable ways. The Vatican-affiliated Comillas Pontifical University conducting this research adds an interesting dimension. Traditional institutions are engaging quantum consciousness research seriously, suggesting the paradigm is shifting beneath our feet.

What This Means for Non-Twins

You might wonder whether these findings apply only to identical twins. The researchers suggest otherwise. If quantum entanglement enhances cognitive performance in genetically identical individuals, the same mechanisms likely operate in all human brains—just potentially at lower intensities. Twins may represent an amplified signal of processes occurring in everyone. Consider the implications for learning, creativity, and problem-solving.

If consciousness can access quantum correlations, then practices that enhance quantum coherence in the brain could theoretically boost cognitive performance. Meditation techniques that synchronize neural oscillations. Breathwork protocols that alter bioelectric fields. Frequency exposures that resonate with quantum processes. The 31.6 percent improvement observed in twins represents what’s possible when quantum conditions are optimized. Your brain already runs quantum algorithms—the question is whether you’re optimizing them.

Ancient Knowing Meets Modern Measurement

Indigenous cultures worldwide have described consciousness as interconnected across individuals and time. Aboriginal dreamtime concepts, shamanic journeying traditions, and collective consciousness frameworks all suggest awareness transcends individual skulls. Western science dismissed these perspectives as primitive mythology. Quantum mechanics keeps suggesting the primitives understood something profound. The twin study demonstrates that human minds can correlate in ways classical physics cannot explain.

Consciousness appears to access nonlocal connections that operate independently of space and time. The mystics described interconnected awareness. Quantum physics provides the mechanism. Twin telepathy reports weren’t delusion—they were data points we lacked the theoretical framework to interpret. That framework is emerging now, one peer-reviewed study at a time. Your consciousness may be entangled with far more than you’ve been taught to believe.