Quantum Mushrooms and the Billion-Year Brain
Turns out your houseplant may be running faster quantum computations than your MacBook, and it doesn’t even need to cool down to -273°C to do it.
What if life has always been quantum? New research led by Philip Kurian suggests that biology isn’t just compatible with quantum mechanics, it’s built on it. His lab found quantum superradiance in cytoskeletal filaments, hinting that organisms from fungi to neurons might compute billions of times faster than previously thought.
Warm, wet, chaotic environments, once thought quantum-proof, are now proving ideal for this biology-meets-physics marriage.
- Microtubules use UV-absorbing tryptophan to process information.
- Aneural organisms could dominate Earth’s computation history.
- Findings challenge assumptions about artificial vs. natural intelligence.
This isn’t science fiction. It’s a call to rethink how life, and intelligence, works, and what role Earth’s oldest organisms might play in the cosmic story. Are we missing the real AI by overlooking the intelligence of life itself?
We’ve been looking to build intelligence from silicon, but what if it was quietly humming along in carbon all along? What does this shift mean for how we design the next generation of intelligence?
Read the full article on SciTechDaily.
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