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[2] viXra:2512.0085 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-18 22:01:29

Lamarck, Ees and Devbias

Authors: Andrzej Gecow
Comments: 10 Pages. In Polish

This is the sixth and final article in a series describing the chapters of the book "Draft of the Deductive Theory of Life" in a very concise and accessible way. This chapter is particularly polemical, pointing out the main contemporary problems in evolutionary biology stemming from the traditional rejection of abstract reasoning methods, i.e., classical deductive theory. These include the debate on whether MS should be replaced by EES, which arose from the appreciation of epigenetics, including Lamarckian mechanisms; and the related problem of generating evolutionary changes that are immediately adaptive. These problems involve plasticity and "developmental bias," which in their discussion typically overlook the role of natural selection that created them. I recall here my proposal for a theoretical systematization of developmental bias, which met with strong resistance for publication.
Category: Quantitative Biology

[1] viXra:2512.0007 [pdf] submitted on 2025-12-03 22:03:17

Quantum Biology of Cognition: A Unified Model for How Living Systems Turn Randomness into Meaningful Time

Authors: Stephan Brown
Comments: 23 Pages. Licensed under CC-BY 4.0 (Note by viXra Admin: Please submit article written with AI assistance to ai.viXra.org)

This paper presents a unified theoretical framework that integrates four major pillars of contemporary physics and neuroscience: quantum biology, Integrated Information Theory (IIT), the Free Energy Principle (FEP), and Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch-OR). We propose that neural microtubules exploit quantum coherence to convert environmental randomness into the structured, meaningful flow of lived time (Bergson’s durée).A coherence amplification parameter λ is introduced, spanning nine orders of magnitude from bulk water (λ ≈ 1) to the hypothesized gravity-induced objective-reduction regime (λ ≈ 10u2079). Quantum error-correction mechanisms in the microtubule lattice are argued to sustain coherence at physiological temperature long enough to influence cognition and to provide the discrete ~25 ms "moments" of experience observed in ~40 Hz gamma synchrony.The synthesis yields three primary falsifiable predictions testable within 2—5 years using existing techniques: (1) 5—10 % deuteration (Du2082O) should slow visual conjunction search by 15—100 ms due to reduced proton tunneling; (2) two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy of isolated tubulin dimers should reveal coherence persisting ≳ 100 fs at 310 K; (3) anesthetic potency should correlate with reduction in integrated-information proxies (e.g., perturbational complexity indexin ways classical ion-channel models cannot explain.We adopt an epistemically humble stance: the core Orch-OR mechanism remains unproven and is considered improbable under current physics priors, but the framework’s internal consistency and near-term empirical accessibility distinguish it from unfalsifiable speculation. If the three primary predictions all fail in well-designed studies by 2030, the microtubule-based quantum-cognition hypothesis will be regarded as refuted.
Category: Quantitative Biology