Re: >Om (Quantum DNA copying?)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Apr 12 2000 - 23:50:28 MDT

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Coooolll....

( For those of you who missed the original message, the link is:
http://www.newscientist.com/features/features_22341.html )

If biology can be demonstrated to create quantum-superposed states just
to more quickly bind the correct base to a duplicating strand of DNA,
then the Penrosian quantum-computing-neurons hypothesis just got
*considerably* more plausible.

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       sentience@pobox.com      Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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