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Quantum information is a very different thing from what you're thinking of as "information" (ie: data stored on a hard-disk or connection strengths in a neural net). For one thing, turning quantum information into "normal" information actually requires becoming entangled (in causal contact) with the quantum information, which is an entropic process. Particularly, the disequilibriating entropic process composing your consciousness is, you know, entropic, so it requires fresh sources of unentangled information and mechanical energy in order to operate (luckily, stored chemical energy in food can provide both).
Sorry for being vague; I wish I had the mathematical knowledge to explain this more clearly.