Unconventional Computing in Biological Aspects toward Open Quantum System
A special issue of Biophysica (ISSN 2673-4125).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 40
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Interests: internal measurement; endo-physics; unconventional computing; animal behavior; lattice theory
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Dear Colleagues,
On one hand, non-trivial quantum effects occur in the transport of electrons and photons at the cellular level of living organisms. These phenomena have led to the development of quantum biology, suggesting an open quantum system. However, this remains speculative without thorough quantum mechanical analysis and computation. On the other hand, quantum cognition employs quantum mechanics as information theory to explain cognitive illusions by calculating quantum probabilities, but it does not introduce new physical concepts of quantum theory, such as open quantum systems.
Unconventional computing, which deviates from classical Boolean algebra, could bridge the gap between quantum biology and quantum cognition by interpreting the dynamic processes of biomaterials as computing. This could advance the concept of an open quantum system.
This special issue is supervised by Prof. Yukio Gunji and assisted by Dr. Panagiotis Mougkogiannis (University of West of England). Any articles on quantum biology, quantum cognition, or unconventional computing that can contribute to the idea of an open quantum system are welcome.
Prof. Dr. Yukio-Pegio Gunji
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- quantum biology
- quantum cognition
- unconventional computing
- cognitive bias
- non-Boolean algebra
- non-distributive lattice
- emergence and quantum theory
- criticality and quantum theory
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