Seth Lloyd on Quantum Life

Big Ideas presents Seth Lloyd of the Massachusetts Institute for Technology on Quantum Life, how organisms have evolved to make use of quantum effects.

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[katten02]

Just love this, both knowledge and laugh!!!

[tvochannel]

Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

[Fletcher DeMaine]

Obviously you're quite insane.

[Bi0tch00]

Seems legit

[timeisabsolute]

Everything is quantum mechanical because of classical physics, as can easily be shown. With QM physics has taken a wrong turn due to incorrect interpretation of motion in CP. For more cf. ytbe channel qmiscm as well as prof. Couder's experiments in ytbe channel heligone. After the mentioned findings there's no room for QM any more. It's classical mechanics that must be improved.

[james deroc]

science asks how not why, and examines the mechanisms but does not speculate about authorship

[faradafasy]

*Seth Lloyd Possibly Misspoke* Not saying that the "quantum smelling" part of this talk is false, but deuterium IS chemically different than hydrogen, unlike Lloyd says. They purify D2O from H2O because of the differences in degradation using electrolysis. Also, D-oxygen bonds are stronger than H-O bonds, which can lead to different rates in biological reactions,

[John Champagne]

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... next molecule. We might have had something like A → B → C → D → A... The bubble holding this together may have been a thin bubble of oil. The function of the whole is to allow the parts to operate, by remaining whole, while the function of each of the parts is to help assemble the next part. Stuart Kauffman writes about this at NPR blog Cosmos and Culture and in his books So do others I suspect, but I couldn't say who.

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[John Champagne]

That molecule may have a shape that, from random bits in the complex environment, can catalyze formation of molecule 'A'. So, the *function* of 'A' is to make more 'B', while the 'function' of 'B' is tot make more 'A'. (In reality, life may have emerged in a bubbly place where certain complex environments within tiny isolated pockets had cycles of several molecules operating, where the products of one reaction would remain nearby so as to be the raw material for the functioning of the next...

[John Champagne]

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Function *emerges* as a novel phenomenon in the universe when autocatalytic sets of molecules are assembled in environments of complex organic chemistry bathed in energy.

Just as a game can emerge when competitors decide some certain rules and bounds of their actions, along with a defined goal, so can sets of molecules emerge that have members (or a member, 'A') that, from the random mix of molecules in the environment, will catalyze formation of some other molecule ('B') in the set.

[SeanMauer]

I disagree, if god created everything in a fully functioning state, then evolution is an incorrect theory. Evolution makes the assumption of non-functioning systems becoming functioning, but non-functioning systems can't evolve because they don't function.