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View SchemaReplication and Evolution of Quantum Species
| Authors | Arun K. Pati |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0411075 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0411075 |
| Journal | Fluctuation and Noise Letters, Vol 4, No. 3 (2004) R27-R38 |
Abstract
We dwell upon the physicist's conception of `life' since Schroedinger and Wigner through to the modern-day language of living systems in the light of quantum information. We discuss some basic features of a living system such as ordinary replication and evolution in terms of quantum bio-information. We also discuss the principle of no-culling of living replicas. We show that in a collection of identical species there can be no entanglement between one of the mutated copies and the rest of the species in a closed universe. Even though these discussions revolve around `artificial life' they may still be applicable in real biological systems under suitable conditions.
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