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randomImmigranttoday at 1:19 AM1 replyview on HN

You know, I pooh poohed his theories. Still do in sum. But there’s a there there that’s building.

Damn Deepak Chopra and his ilk of idiots for making any conversation of quantum mechanics and biology tinged with pseudoscience. Hopefully we’ll keep getting experimental evidence as we go that it’s not at all absurd to consider quantum effects in biology.

That said, those effects are going to look nothing like sustained coherence for long periods of time.


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MarkusQtoday at 2:18 AM

They didn't start the fire. Quantum + biology → Woo has been with us since the 1960s at least.