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Quantum physics observed in photosynthesis and could lead the way to greatly improved solar technologies

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  1. DonQuixote
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    This article came out in May. I like the the comment section. One reader commented that it will be exciting if we ever see quantum behavior in neurons as in this article they found it in green...

    This article came out in May. I like the the comment section. One reader commented that it will be exciting if we ever see quantum behavior in neurons as in this article they found it in green sulfur bacteria. The next comment was this:

    The Penrose Hameroff theory of quantum consciousness pertaining to the biological microtubules of the neurons becomes more and more real. Which would imply that AI will and can never be conscious, no matter how successful we are at 'mapping' the brain... unless you can create artificial microtubules that can trap those quantum "consciousness" particles (whatever that is ultimately determined to be - part of dark matter?) that provide us our unique ability for imaginative self awareness. (and of we can do that - AI is no longer artificial, but as real as you or I, nothing artificial about it except perhaps it walks around in a android form - and that opens up another can of worms.)

    It recalled to me Asimov's early science fiction regarding the 'positronic' brains of robots. So much of the ideas he suggested over his lifetime was fictional, but it pointed us to the possibility of science opening up so much more than flying cars.

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