Re:Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
by joebig on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:32AM
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There is some inaccuracy here I think. Decoherence means washing out of interference phenomenon, viz. you will observe no fringes in the double slit experiment with incoherent source pair (they switch so rapidly as to end up plain grey). What is erased or overwritten in tiny timescales cannot have a residual resultant or guiding gulley effect, or as you say, freezing the pattern/steric landscape in a preffered state repeatably. It would be tantamount to observing the fringe pattern with incoherent sources, for all timescales.
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Re:Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
by __MatrixMan__ on Sunday September 27, 2026 @09:50AM
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Take flash memory for example. We read the bit via quantum tunneling. We don't have to wait for the electron to actually bounce out of its little box, we can detect the small probability that it might, and then we can act on that detection.
So every time I act on the basis of such a read event, am I not being guided down one of gulleys that were set up by the designer of my device (or, analogously for biology, by evolution)?
Re:Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
by gus_massa on Sunday September 27, 2026 @10:53AM
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We can't detect the probability, we only can detect electron that a passed. We meassury tiny currents.
Do you have a link to this explanation?
Re:Biology Might Not Be Quantum, but Its Math Is Quantumlike
by __MatrixMan__ on Sunday September 27, 2026 @12:36PM
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I did some more reading and it turns out I've misunderstood flash memory. I thought it was read via tunneling, but it's written via tunneling. I appologize.
This being the forum that it is, I was hoping to find an example of this sort of thing: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4066974/ but in electrical engineering instead.