On 7 February 2014 15:47, Richard Ruquist <[email protected]> wrote: > He wrote one paragraph on the Lloyd limit and concluded "These sorts of > arguments are at best suggestive". In fact the entire paper was about > quantum effects in biology. He even suggests replacing bits by qubits. No > mention of "60 amino acids is about the size of the smallest functional > protein" and so on. I agree that he is talking about the number of > different protein configurations that may be made and when that number > exceeds the Lloyd limit, strong emergence may result in some such proteins > actually being made. But that seems very ad hoc to me now- something you > seem to have realized immediately. > My apologies, Richard > > OK. Sorry if I was a bit sharp.
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