Quantum biology: The secret behind the extraordinary efficiency of organisms

Pavel Straňák

Understanding how biological systems maintain their extraordinary complexity remains a major challenge in science. This paper presents a highly speculative theoretical framework: a hypothetical informational field—analogous in spirit to dark matter—that may influence biological and possible future artificial systems through hidden attractors operating at the quantum level. These attractors are hypothesized to modulate probability distributions beyond the standard Born rule, potentially guiding processes such as protein folding, DNA repair, or neural coherence. The framework connects concepts from quantum biology, complexity theory, and dynamical systems, and offers testable predictions using current spectroscopic and quantum sensing techniques. It also outlines implications for artificial intelligence, suggesting that future self-organizing architectures may require integration of non-classical informational dynamics.

R. K. Chaurasia, Bhushan S. Dhabekar

Federico E. Miraglia

The interrelation between quantum physics and biology was once excluded as impossible, but it is now being reconsidered in unexpected and unprecedented ways. Quantum biology is a novel frontier of science that studies quantum effects in biological systems: Life functions and senses of perceptions appear to be mediated by quantum mechanical processes, which allow living organisms to sustain themselves and experience reality. Photosynthesis, magnetoreception, olfaction, and potentially our sense of consciousness would be possible through the weird quantum-energetic behavior of subatomic particles. Modern medicine is being impacted as well by the quantum revolution, with a shift in perspective from material particles to energy fields, in accordance with the principles of traditional medical systems, such as Ayurveda, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Homeopathy.

A. V. Syurakshin, Vladimir Anatolievich Saleev, V. Yu. Yushankhaï

The penetration of quantum concepts into biological science, which began shortly after the creation of quantum mechanics, over the past two decades has taken shape in a new interdisciplinary scientific discipline quantum biology. One of the key questions of quantum biology has been formulated as follows: are there biological systems that use quantum effects to perform a task that cannot be done classically? More broadly, do some kinds of organisms adapt efficient quantum mechanisms in the process of their evolutionary development in order to gain an advantage over their competitors? The range of topical problems of the new discipline discussed in this brief review includes questions of a general, historical and methodological character, and generalizes some theoretical models aimed at describing quantum processes, including bacterialphotosynthesis, bird magnetoreception, and the mechanism of olfactory sense in living organisms.

Philip Ball