Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
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Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
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<a href="https://www.kavlifoundation.org/news/unraveling-the-quantum-mysteries-of-photosynthesis" rel="nofollow">https://www.kavlifoundation.org/news/unraveling-the-quantum-...
Edit: FTA, "In photosynthesis, for example, organisms use specialized pigments and proteins to harvest light with nearly perfect quantum efficiency; they convert almost every incoming photon into useful chemical energy."
Edit: this is about standing waves and overtones: "In 2024, Scholes found a way to design complex networks of oscillators such that they produced emergent states — stable patterns of synchronized behavior, like a crowd that claps in time — that could be mathematically described as vectors in a Hilbert space."