Thursday, May 10, 2007

Nontrivial Quantum Effects in Biology: A Skeptical Physicists' View

This is a very entertaining paper. It was presented as an invited talk at a Symposium that, I presume, dealt with issues like this. In this paper, the authors discussed 4 major issues that many in the philosophy, biology, and even crackpots, have tried - using quantum mechanics as a source for several poorly-explained phenomena. These 4 issues are: A quantum life principle, Quantum computing in the brain, Quantum computing in genetics, and Quantum consciousness.

Read it and tell me what you think.

Zz.

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