Quantum fluctuations and life

Details Quantum fluctuations and life Quantum fluctuations and life

2004-03-02

arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0403017v1

Physics

Quantum Physics

10 pages, no figures, conference paper

Scientific paper

10.1117/12.561309

There have been many claims that quantum mechanics plays a key role in the origin and/or operation of biological organisms, beyond merely providing the basis for the shapes and sizes of biological molecules and their chemical affinities. These range from the suggestion by Schrodinger that quantum fluctuations produce mutations, to the conjecture by Hameroff and Penrose that quantum coherence in microtubules is linked to consciousness. I review some of these claims in this paper, and discuss the serious problem of decoherence. I advance some further conjectures about quantum information processing in bio-systems. Some possible experiments are suggested.

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