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ORDERED COMPLEXITY. "How does life maintain its molecular order long enough to perform its quantum tricks in warm and wet cells?" https://lnkd.in/eYXPebN View in LinkedIn

MICROTUBULE COMPUTING. "I spent 20 years studying microtubule information processing. The AI approach would be, roughly speaking, that a neuron fires or it doesn’t. It’s roughly comparable to a bit, 1 or 0. It’s more complicated than that but roughly speaking." https://lnkd.in/eFVH_iD View in LinkedIn

BAD VIBRATIONS. "Quantum coherence is an immensely delicate phenomenon, depending on those in-tune particle waves. To maintain it, physicists usually have to enclose their systems within near-perfect vacuums and cool them down to very close to absolute zero temperature to freeze out any heat-driven molecular motion. Molecular vibrations are the mortal enemy of quantum coherence." https://lnkd.in/eYXPebN View in LinkedIn

FORBIDDEN CRYSTAL SYMMETRY, by Sir Roger Penrose. Yet again, breaking traditional thinking. https://lnkd.in/eHBgHXN View in LinkedIn

NUANCED QUANTUMS. "In the recent years experimental measurements have uncovered fine quantum effects (FQE) in biological systems. These FQE may appear as surprising given the warm soft nature of biological media, as opposed to the cold hard world where quantum effects dominate." https://lnkd.in/eMTJFEQ View in LinkedIn

MICROTUBULE INFO PROCESSING. "MT-based information processing offers a huge potential increase in brain capacity." https://lnkd.in/e2cr6ar View in LinkedIn

"LIFE -- WARM, WET AND NOISY. A primary issue is decoherence, a process where the phases of quantum wavefunctions are randomized to reduce quantum phenomena to classical processes. Decoherence arises from dynamic disorder, or “energy noise”, and is expected to be extremely rapid in biological environments." https://lnkd.in/e7kcPri View in LinkedIn

CORRECT COMPLEXITY. "We show that systems with the right level of complexity between chaos and regularity can increase their coherence time by orders of magnitude." https://lnkd.in/ec-BymT View in LinkedIn

CORRECT COMPLEXITY. "We give a new explanation for why some biological systems can stay quantum coherent for a long time at room temperature, one of the fundamental puzzles of quantum biology." https://lnkd.in/ec-BymT View in LinkedIn

NANO VERSUS BIO. "On the face of it, quantum effects and living organisms seem to occupy utterly different realms. The former are usually observed only on the nanometre scale, surrounded by hard vacuum, ultra-low temperatures and a tightly controlled laboratory environment. The latter inhabit a macroscopic world that is warm, messy and anything but controlled." https://lnkd.in/eDJed9B View in LinkedIn