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arXiv 1709.05971q-bio.OTquant-ph
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生命的量子起源:方法论,认识论和本体论问题

Quantum origin of life: methodological, epistemological and ontological issues

Juan Campos Quemada

摘要:

这篇文章的目的是分析量子力学作为生命固有特征的作用。在过去的十年中,生命起源问题已成为许多作者探讨的一个创新性研究课题。本文分为三个部分:第一部分从哲学和生物学的角度探讨生命问题。第二部分介绍了本文的概念和方法论基础,主要是建立在信息论和量子论的基础上。在第三部分中,我们将利用这一基础来讨论生命量子起源的不同论点和观点。关于生命问题,有许多哲学观点,其中两种观点在当下尤为重要:还原物理主义和生物系统突现主义。从科学的角度来看,生物学提出的所有理论和实验证据可以归结为两个主要的研究主题:RNA世界和囊泡理论。从物理主义的观点来看,RNA世界认为复制是生命的本质,而基于生物系统的囊泡理论认为生命的本质可以在细胞代谢中找到。本文运用信息论的观点,通过复制,摒弃了生命自发应急的观念。理解量子力学的本质和基础是基础,以便能够理解使用量子计算的优势,从而能够增加自动复制结构存在的概率。不同的论点提出,如量子力学的内在性的生命起源。最后,为了解决自动复制问题,提出了三个科学命题:Q-life,量子组合库和算法在遗传语言起源中的作用。

英文摘要:

The aim of this essay is to analyze the role of quantum mechanics as an inherent characteristic of life. During the last ten years the problem of the origin of life has become an innovative research subject approached by many authors. The essay is divided in to three parts: the first deals with the problem of life from a philosophical and biological perspective. The second presents the conceptual and methodological basis of the essay which is founded on the Information Theory and the Quantum Theory. This basis is then used, in the third part, to discuss the different arguments and conjectures of a quantum origin of life. There are many philosophical views on the problem of life, two of which are especially important at the moment: reductive physicalism and biosystemic emergentism. From a scientific perspective, all the theories and experimental evidences put forward by Biology can be summed up in to two main research themes: the RNA world and the vesicular theory. The RNA world, from a physicalist point of view, maintains that replication is the essence of life while the vesicular theory, founded on biosystemic grounds, believes the essence of life can be found in cellular metabolism. This essay uses the Information Theory to discard the idea of a spontaneous emergency of life through replication. Understanding the nature and basis of quantum mechanics is fundamental in order to be able to comprehend the advantages of using quantum computation to be able increase the probabilities of existence of auto replicative structures. Different arguments are set forth such as the inherence of quantum mechanics to the origin of life. Finally, in order to try to resolve the question of auto replication, three scientific propositions are put forward: Q-life, the quantum combinatory library and the role of algorithms in the origin of genetic language.

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