Great overview of a vastly underappreciated field, Marco.
Your breakdown of proton tunneling in DNA replication provides a brilliant, systematic rationale for what we might call 'replicative fading'—the inevitable, generational drift that happens when you copy a copy of a copy (like a game of telephone).
Traditionally, we blame genetic drift and aging on 'wear and tear' or faulty cellular machinery. But quantum biology suggests this drift is a physical truism. Even in a perfectly shielded environment with flawless replication enzymes, quantum uncertainty ensures the subatomic 'letters' themselves will shapeshift. It seems chaos and aging are literally baked into the quantum glue of our biology.
I work with fascia, and am convinced some quantum stuff is happening in the body. Knees rotates, feet and arms starts to move on their own, pain disappears by just touching the right places. Fascia connects everything, touch somewhere and it’s noticed somewhere else.
It is piezoelectric and penetrates everything, even the cells. Touching between the ribs can make people breathe again. And a lot more.
A very interesting overview of the current state of quantum biology. From an organizational perspective, however, I would pose a different question. Even if quantum phenomena were eventually shown to participate in photosynthesis, enzyme activity, or magnetoreception, this would not imply that life is quantum. It would simply show that evolution exploits another available physical mechanism whenever doing so improves adaptive performance.
In my view, the problem is framed in reverse. A physical mechanism explains how a biological process can be realized, but it does not explain why that particular process became evolutionarily preserved. Proton tunneling may increase mutation rates, and quantum coherence may improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, yet neither phenomenon is itself the object of natural selection. Selection ultimately favors functional organization and adaptive performance, while the underlying physical mechanisms are retained only insofar as they contribute to those properties.
The more fundamental question, therefore, is not Does life use quantum mechanics? but rather Under what organizational conditions does evolution preserve a quantum mechanism instead of a classical one? From this perspective, quantum mechanics is one possible physical substrate through which biological processes may be realized. What still requires explanation are the organizational principles that determine when such mechanisms provide an adaptive advantage.
More generally, I think discussions of quantum biology sometimes illustrate a common reductionist tendency in science: attempting to answer an organizational question by moving to an increasingly fundamental physical description. Yet organizational transitions usually proceed in the opposite direction. Functional requirements constrain the kinds of physical mechanisms that can be successfully retained, while physics provides the space of possible implementations.
In other words, evolution does not select quantum, classical, or chemical mechanisms. It selects adaptive organizations that exploit whatever physical mechanisms most effectively sustain adaptive success.
I explore this in some depth on my substack. By looking at the porous boundaries between systems there appears a direct correlation between Belligerent Teritoriality in a all systems that is mirrored in adjacent systems.
Great overview of a vastly underappreciated field, Marco.
Your breakdown of proton tunneling in DNA replication provides a brilliant, systematic rationale for what we might call 'replicative fading'—the inevitable, generational drift that happens when you copy a copy of a copy (like a game of telephone).
Traditionally, we blame genetic drift and aging on 'wear and tear' or faulty cellular machinery. But quantum biology suggests this drift is a physical truism. Even in a perfectly shielded environment with flawless replication enzymes, quantum uncertainty ensures the subatomic 'letters' themselves will shapeshift. It seems chaos and aging are literally baked into the quantum glue of our biology.
I work with fascia, and am convinced some quantum stuff is happening in the body. Knees rotates, feet and arms starts to move on their own, pain disappears by just touching the right places. Fascia connects everything, touch somewhere and it’s noticed somewhere else.
It is piezoelectric and penetrates everything, even the cells. Touching between the ribs can make people breathe again. And a lot more.
A very interesting overview of the current state of quantum biology. From an organizational perspective, however, I would pose a different question. Even if quantum phenomena were eventually shown to participate in photosynthesis, enzyme activity, or magnetoreception, this would not imply that life is quantum. It would simply show that evolution exploits another available physical mechanism whenever doing so improves adaptive performance.
In my view, the problem is framed in reverse. A physical mechanism explains how a biological process can be realized, but it does not explain why that particular process became evolutionarily preserved. Proton tunneling may increase mutation rates, and quantum coherence may improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, yet neither phenomenon is itself the object of natural selection. Selection ultimately favors functional organization and adaptive performance, while the underlying physical mechanisms are retained only insofar as they contribute to those properties.
The more fundamental question, therefore, is not Does life use quantum mechanics? but rather Under what organizational conditions does evolution preserve a quantum mechanism instead of a classical one? From this perspective, quantum mechanics is one possible physical substrate through which biological processes may be realized. What still requires explanation are the organizational principles that determine when such mechanisms provide an adaptive advantage.
More generally, I think discussions of quantum biology sometimes illustrate a common reductionist tendency in science: attempting to answer an organizational question by moving to an increasingly fundamental physical description. Yet organizational transitions usually proceed in the opposite direction. Functional requirements constrain the kinds of physical mechanisms that can be successfully retained, while physics provides the space of possible implementations.
In other words, evolution does not select quantum, classical, or chemical mechanisms. It selects adaptive organizations that exploit whatever physical mechanisms most effectively sustain adaptive success.
I explore this in some depth on my substack. By looking at the porous boundaries between systems there appears a direct correlation between Belligerent Teritoriality in a all systems that is mirrored in adjacent systems.
I’ve come to believe that a part of the unknown DNA is a receptor that transmits info to the body when I touch the fascia.
Nothing spiritual happens outside the body- it is even the best lie detector ever made.
For this to be, I think something quantum must be involved.