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Is Quantum Evolution The New Science Of Life?
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By webmaster 
On Sat Feb 05, 2000 05:15 PM
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This article describes a new theory that evolution of life requires the use of quantum mechanical multiverses. From a cursory reading, I don't buy it. The simpler explanation of coherence/dechoherence seems a tad easier to believe than parallel universes. What if we achieve complete artificial intelligence in a computer? Was it alive before, too? The paper posits that life is somehow different than nonlife at a quantum level. This should easily be disproved by the first computer artificial intelligence being. Or maybe it already has if you take alife into consideration.
In quantum mechanics, everything that can happen will happen. When an electron or proton is placed at a crossroads where it can travel to the right or to the left, it goes both ways.
In quantum systems, fundamental particles exist as ghostly "superpositions" where they can be in a billion different places at once or in a billion different states at once.
Today, one of the most popular interpretations, and one that has the backing of Nobel prize-winning physicists, is that there exists a multiverse in which everything that can happen really does happen -- but in parallel universes. Although our conscious self inhabits only one branch of the multiverse -- our own universe -- fundamental particles inhabit the entire multiverse. It is this property that allows them to occupy multiple places or states simultaneously: Each place or state is in a parallel universe.
| | This article describes a new theory that evolution of life requires the use of quantum mechanical multiverses. From a cursory reading, I don't buy it. The simpler explanation of coherence/dechoherence seems a tad easier to believe than parallel universes. What if we achieve complete artificial intelligence in a computer? Was it alive before, too? The paper posits that life is somehow different than nonlife at a quantum level. This should easily be disproved by the first computer artificial intelligence being. Or maybe it already has if you take alife into consideration.
In quantum mechanics, everything that can happen will happen. When an electron or proton is placed at a crossroads where it can travel to the right or to the left, it goes both ways.
In quantum systems, fundamental particles exist as ghostly "superpositions" where they can be in a billion different places at once or in a billion different states at once.
Today, one of the most popular interpretations, and one that has the backing of Nobel prize-winning physicists, is that there exists a multiverse in which everything that can happen really does happen -- but in parallel universes. Although our conscious self inhabits only one branch of the multiverse -- our own universe -- fundamental particles inhabit the entire multiverse. It is this property that allows them to occupy multiple places or states simultaneously: Each place or state is in a parallel universe.
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