From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 15:11:24 MST
Johnjoe McFadden's, a microbiologist at Surrey University,
believes that quantum effects have played a role in evolution,
i.e. the production of self-replicators and "directed" mutations.
http://www.geneticengineering.org/evolution/mcfaddenc8.html
http://www.surrey.ac.uk/qe/equations.htm
J. McFadden speculates that
the "Inverse Quantum Zeno Effect" (IQZE)
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0006094
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9806015
might produce a mechanism which allows a molecule
to run through all possible mutations until they hit
"the one" which causes a "significant" effect.
But there is a big difference between an organism
and the "environmental" condition that is required
to allow quantum effects.
I.e. Tegmark says....
http://www.arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9907009
scerir
"when you argue with a fool
chances are
he is doing just the same"
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