Quantum Aspects of Life

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Quantum Aspects of Life, a book published in 2008 with a foreword by

• Foreword by Roger Penrose

Section 1: Emergence and Complexity

• Chapter 1: "A Quantum Origin of Life?" by
  Paul C. W. Davies
• Chapter 2: "
  Quantum Mechanics and Emergence" by Seth Lloyd

• Chapter 3: "Quantum Coherence and the Search for the First Replicator" by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden
• Chapter 4: "Ultrafast Quantum Dynamics in Photosynthesis" by Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Francesca Fassioli Olsen, Chiu Fan Lee, and Neil F. Johnson
• Chapter 5: "Modeling Quantum Decoherence in
  Biomolecules" by Jacques Bothma, Joel Gilmore, and Ross H. McKenzie

• Chapter 6: "Molecular Evolution: A Role for Quantum Mechanics in the Dynamics of
  Molecular Machines that Read and Write DNA" by Anita Goel
• Chapter 7: "Memory Depends on the Cytoskeleton, but is it Quantum?" by Andreas Mershin and Dimitri V. Nanopoulos
• Chapter 8: "Quantum Metabolism and Allometric Scaling Relations in Biology" by Lloyd Demetrius
• Chapter 9: "Spectroscopy of the Genetic Code" by Jim D. Bashford and Peter D. Jarvis
• Chapter 10: "Towards Understanding the Origin of Genetic Languages" by Apoorva D. Patel

Section 4: Artificial Quantum Life

• Chapter 11: "Can Arbitrary Quantum Systems Undergo Self-Replication?" by Arun K. Pati and Samuel L. Braunstein
• Chapter 12: "A Semi-Quantum Version of the Game of Life" by Adrian P. Flitney and Derek Abbott
• Chapter 13: "Evolutionary Stability in Quantum Games" by Azhar Iqbal and Taksu Cheon
• Chapter 14: "Quantum Transmemetic Intelligence" by Edward W. Piotrowski and Jan Sładkowski

Section 5: The Debate

• Chapter 15: "Dreams versus Reality: Plenary Debate Session on Quantum Computing" For panel:
  Sergey M. Bezrukov, Laszlo B. Kish; Debate chair: Charles R. Doering; Transcript Editor: Derek Abbott
  .
• Chapter 16: "Plenary Debate: Quantum Effects in Biology: Trivial or Not?" For panel:
  Sergey M. Bezrukov, Hans Frauenfelder; Debate chair: Julio Gea-Banacloche; Transcript Editor: Derek Abbott
  .
• Chapter 17: "Non-trivial Quantum Effects in Biology: A Skeptical Physicist’s View" Howard M. Wiseman and Jens Eisert
• Chapter 18: "That’s Life! — The Geometry of π Electron Clouds" Stuart Hameroff

See also

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• Quantum biology

References

• Kibble, Tom (December 2010). "Book Review: 'Quantum Aspects of Life' Edited by Derek Abbott, Paul C. W. Davies and Arun K. Pati". International Journal of Quantum Information. 08 (8): 1427–1432.
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• McClintock, Peter V.E. (January 2011). "Quantum aspects of life". Contemporary Physics. 52 (1): 71–73.
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• Rinaldi, Andrea (January 2012). "When life gets physical: Quantum effects in selected biological systems have been confirmed experimentally, but how widespread is their role remains unclear". EMBO Reports. 13 (1): 24–27.
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• Book's homepage at ICP