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Computational Limit of Life May Be Billion Times Higher Than Assumed
And it’s all thanks to quantum mechanics.
However, a new article written by theoretical physicist Philip Kurian argues that this limit—and all other neuron-based estimations of life’s computational abilities—have woefully underestimated the true abilities of biological brains. Published in the journal Science Advances, this article expands on QBL’s recent discovery of cytoskeleton filaments exhibiting quantum optical features and recalculates the computational capacity of carbon-based life on Earth. Kurian’s paper focuses on the amino acid tryptophan, which is found in many proteins and can form large networks within structures like microtubules, amyloid fibrils, cilia, and neurons.
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