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Life’s Quantum Crystal Ball

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http://www.fqxi.org/community/articles/display/194

EXCERPT: Does the ability to predict the future—perhaps with quantum help—define the fundamental difference between living and inanimate matter? ... The idea that living organisms use predictive inference to help them perform better in the future is relatively straightforward to grasp. A more radical notion is that this process might also be present at much smaller scales, down to the molecular complexes that perform specific tasks within the cells of living organisms, or the "machinery of life" as Still, an information and computer scientist at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, refers to them. "Bio-molecular machines are the building blocks of our cells and there is evidence that they operate at very high energetic efficiency," says Still....
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