Richard,
you asked:
> Should I assume then that biological systems are simply
> out-of-range for useful applications of QT or QM?
Not at all. Hameroff & Penrose hypothesize a direct construction
of neurons which structures embody QM behaviors. Brian Josephson's
"Josephson Junctions" - important QM phenomena in electrical circuity -
are being thought as also fundamental to information transmission at
synapses.
Jamie
Richard Emery wrote:
>
> Dear FISers,
>
> As a biologist, whose quantum-theory knowledge comes mostly from
> popular sources, I have enjoyed this discussion about what is or
> isn't quantum and why a Planck length matters. Obviously there are
> pitfalls for anyone who ventures carelessly into the Land of Little
> Pieces. But I am not really sure where to step if I try to make some
> sense out of QM or QT in a biological context. So far as I can tell
> they have no relevance to any biological species, save one, and
> furthermore they don't apply to either genetics or evolution.
>
> What still confuses me, however, concerns the applicable meaning of
> quantum information, if there is such a thing, how it is propagated
> through physical systems, including biological systems, and whether
> or not genetic information is related at all to any other kind of
> quantum information that occupies non-biological space and time.
>
> Should I assume then that biological systems are simply out-of-range
> for useful applications of QT or QM?
>
> Always with appreciation, Richard
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