• Computational capacity of life in relation to the universe

    From vallor@21:1/5 to All on Sun Apr 27 03:05:10 2025
    As seen in, of all places, alt.paranormal:

    https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adt4623

    Obquote:

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    A collection of
    two-level systems has
    accessible states (without superposition) and can register
    bits of information, and in general a system with
    accessible states can register log2 M bits of information. According
    to recent findings by the author’s group (1, 17), many protein
    polymers comprise enormous networks of such two-level quantum
    emitters (a small molecule called tryptophan), and can be treated
    effectively as open quantum systems interacting with their
    environments. They are therefore subject to similar quantum speed
    limits on their computational capacity and exhibit observable quantum enhancements, even at thermal equilibrium or at high temperatures
    where the quantum-to-classical transition takes place. These protein
    polymers, which are ubiquitous across all eukaryotic and even some
    bacterial species, exhibit superradiance (18) in the single-photon
    limit, where sharing a single photon coherently across n quantum
    emitters increases the spontaneous emission rate from γ for the
    single emitter up to a maximum of nγ for the collective.
    Single-photon superradiance (19) is thus a distinctively quantum
    effect, which will be shown to drastically increase estimates for the computational capacity of neural and aneural organisms.
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    Also: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-just-discovered-quantum-signals-inside-life-itself/

    It's pretty far-out, but if tryptophan does indeed have the property
    the author claims, this could be a revolutionary discovery.

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