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Morpheal · Guest

Evolution of Intelligence Requires Natural "Quantum Computing"

To reiterate something I have said previously, but not as clearly and
concisely:

One of the conditions necessary for the evolution of natural
intelligence is the existence of what amounts to being natural quantum
computing. The conservative nature of genetic material as to the
statistical occurrences of non lethal mutations, their manner of
occurrence, and their effects, is decisively inadequate (in a
multiplicity of ways) for the evolution of intelligence as we know it.
Rather than proposing the phlogiston style theory of "soul" imbued
into non living matter, we must look for the answer within the natural
world itself.

As I have asserted previously, the equivalent of software in a
computer, is most likely to be found at the quantum level, not at the
genetic level, of an organism. This gains in importance as the
complexity of organisms increases. That equivalen of "computer
software" experiences modification more readily and more quickly than
the genetic code that provides the equivalent of the "blueprints of
life". We add that relatively complex behaviours, and some forms of
anomalous memories (ie. verifiable memories of what seem to be past
lives and instances of knowledge not acquired in the present
lifetime), are stored at the quantum level, not the genetic level and
new information, equivalent to mutations of the quantum memory system
in an organism, is passed on much more readily than it could possibly
be via the genetic code. We must add that it is a much more orderly
storage and transfer of information than the much more random
mutations that are the basis of Darwinian type theories of evolution.

Without that more rapid and orderly "mutation" of inherent material
intelligence would never have evolved as it has, and in fact we claim
it would not have occurred at all. It is only because of natural
quantum computing, ie. orderly systematic information storage and
retrieval at the quantum level in the organism, that the occurrence
and evolution of intelligence is possible.

This further implies that there is no radical division between non
living and living matter. The quantum principles pertaining to non
living matter are themselves the source of the evolution and
intelligence of living matter. It is a continuum, not a division of
two distinct types.

Bob Ezergailis
Hamilton, Canada
January 21, 2008