I note this post of Bruno's with great interest and have not so far
found any actual scientific paper, published or otherwise, to the effect
that this effect is anything like so-called "quantum computing".
I have copies of the two papers he referred to and an abstract of the
"Nature" paper.
I'm very interested of course, and certainly see the possibilities of
analog (or B-Z) computation and mention that in a paper I am writing
currently, but all I saw in the email from Bruno received today was
stuff from SciAm.
If anyone has even a proper draft article confirming, please send to me
and/or to the 'everything-list'
Please enlighten for my interest. My usual blog is at
http://ttjohn.blogspot.com/
uv
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruno Marchal" <marc...@ulb.ac.be>
To: <fabric-of-real...@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "everything-list List" <everything-list@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 10:47 PM
Subject: Does the plants quantum computations?
Hi,
I have to find time to look at this in more detail, but I am already
rather impressed. Please correct me.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=when-it-comes-to-photosynthesis-plants-perform-quantum-computation
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=shining-a-light-on-plants-quantum-secret&sc=WR_20100209
If life is a biochemical process, it is a quantum process or
"computation", of course. But if those papers are correct, genuine
interference processed are used by proteins selected for that task.
I don't think this can invalidate Tegmark's argument that the brain is
mainly a classical machine, but I know that in biology, we can always
be surprised, and it may be a tiny step toward such invalidation. This
may lead to lowering down our mechanist substitution level.
It open the prospect to build quantum devices by genetical
engineering. Perhaps.
Bruno Marchal
http://iridia.ulb.ac.be/~marchal/
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