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Biological Utilisation of Quantum NonLocality

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Josephson, Brian D, Pallikari-Viras, Fotini β€’ 1991 STAR GATE Era β€’ methodology

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Here's something you don't see every day: a Nobel Prize-winning physicist arguing that telepathy and mind-over-matter might be allowed by the laws of physics. Josephson and Pallikari-Viras start from Bell's theorem, which proved that distant particles can be mysteriously connected across space ("nonlocality"). Standard quantum math says these connections wash out in everyday life through statistical averaging. But the authors suggest living organisms might have evolved clever workarounds -- using special probability patterns that let them actually tap into these spooky links. It's a bold, purely theoretical idea with no hard numbers to test, but it became a launching pad for decades of similar proposals.

Abstract

The perception of reality by biosystems is based on different, and in certain respects more effective principles than those utilised by the more formal procedures of science. As a result, what appears as random pattern to the scientific method can be meaningful pattern to a living organism. The existence of this complementary perception of reality makes possible in principle effective use by organisms of the direct interconnections between spatially separated objects shown to exist in the work of J.S. Bell.

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APA
Josephson, Brian D, Pallikari-Viras, Fotini (1991). Biological Utilisation of Quantum NonLocality. Foundations of Physics. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889297
BibTeX
@article{josephson_1991_biological,
  title = {Biological Utilisation of Quantum NonLocality},
  author = {Josephson, Brian D and Pallikari-Viras, Fotini},
  year = {1991},
  journal = {Foundations of Physics},
  doi = {10.1007/BF01889297},
}