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That's pretty damn fascinating.

I call bullshit on you all the time, Charles, but you did well on this one.
2
our networks may be nothing but primitive, but also change much faster than a millions-of-years evolutionary timescale.
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"Working out its role in a living organism could lead to technological advances, such as better organic solar cells and quantum-based electronic devices."

Sorry, but we just learned that everything "big" has already been invented, so these scientists should just drop it.
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I mean, it's not shocking that life has evolved to take advantage of quantum effects. There's no difference between classical physics and quantum physics and metaphysics - it's all "environment," a series of rules which must be followed by bits of matter in a mathematical dance. As useful as it is to humanize Evolution, describing it as "selecting" more-fit individuals, there's no intelligence present. Evolution doesn't need to understand why something works before it utilizes it; evolution isn't a thing. It's a description of a trend, where things that are better at copying themselves tend to end up with more copies of themselves.
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I'm betting that humans utilize quantum effects in some way as well, we just haven't realized how, or that we do yet.
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I was hoping that your use of "primative" referred in an ironic way to "primates" or some such, but no it was just a miss-spelling
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I'm sorry Charles; this was actually a very good post, on a timely subject.
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This is a fascinating article. But why did they post an aerial view of the city of London at the bottom?

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