И, снова, возвращаясь к Волновому (Квантовому) геному в аспекте первичного восприятия наших идей Василием Огрызко. Получил от него ответ, фактически обращенный к участникам данной дискуссии, и поэтому целиком его воспроизвожу (у кого проблемы с Английским, могу дать свой перевод):
Dear Colleagues,
I hope you do not mind that I write in English - I have been out of
Russia for so long that I do not have a Russian keyboard on my
computer.
Thank you for the interest in my opinion. I will try to be as short as
possible.
First, I do not know well the Gariaev's theory. The first time I heard
about Wave genetics was at the Quantum Mind conference at 1999,
organized by Hameroff
(
www.conferencerecording.com/newevents/qac99.htm). Because this
talk was right after my presentation, I was very tired, and quite
embarrassingly, I could not remember practically anything from what
was said. (By the way, here is the talk of my presentation, if anyone
is interested:
sites.google.com/site/vasilyogryzko/mole...dactic-introduction-)
I heard of Petr Petrovich's name only about 3 years ago. And only a
week ago or so, I had a chance to read some of his work. I cannot
claim that I understood it. However, one thing that we clearly share
is the belief that quantum theory will be necessary to understand the
information processing in living cells. This is all that I can say at
the moment about the similarities.
Most likely, we have different reasons for that belief. I started to
think about it in 1989, when I thought of an explanation for a very
interesting biological phenomenon of adaptive mutations using the
principles of quantum theory (you can look here
sites.google.com/site/vasilyogryzko/inte...o-adaptive-mutations
for the history of this idea, but this web page is is still a work in progress)
My long attempts to understand what this explanation could mean for
molecular biology resulted in a text that I have recently posted on
the arXiv site:
arxiv.org/abs/0906.4279
In short, I think that we will need to take quantum principles into
account in explaining Life because of the recent technological
progress in biology (nano- and -omics approaches), which will bring to
the fore two related questions about individual cells, which have not
been seriously addressed previously: 1. 'can we know all relevant
information about an individual cell?' and 2. 'How can the
intracellular dynamics be stable?'. The second question can be also
formulated as the problem of 'tradeoff between complexity and
stability'. It is in addressing the second question that the notion of
quantum entanglement could become very handy, as I tried to explain in
my 'Biology Direct' essay.
Incidentally, me and my colleagues are also trying to develop
experimental ways to detect entanglement in the living cells, which is
also discussed in the arXiv text. Given that DNA sequence is the most
stable and reliable observable of an individual cell, we hope that to
detect entanglement, we can take advantage of high throughput
sequencing methodology - by studying correlations between different
mutation events in an individual genome. In fact, we recently
published a paper in PNAS (
arxiv.org/abs/0912.3093), which
could be seen as a first step in this direction - although we
obviously did not mention entanglement in out paper, to avoid scaring
the reviewers.
Now concerning the ideas of Petr Petrovich. I do agree that molecular
biological approach has its limitations and new physics (quantum) will
be necessary to explain Life. But when I try to read his works, I will
say honestly that I do not understand many things that he says. But it
might not be the ideas themselves, but rather the way how they are
expressed.
Based on the incomprehensibility, it would be all too easy to dismiss
what Gariaev says. But I am also concerned about a similar fate of my
own ideas, so I want to follow the maxim: 'do upon others what you
want others do upon you' and suggest to be open-minded.
Anyway, I feel bad that Gariaev lost the opportunity to do his
research. I can write a support letter, if it can help. Again, I can
comment on general desirability of alternative approaches to biology,
quantum biology including, but cannot say much more specifically about
his ideas.
--
Vasily Ogryzko
DR2 INSERM,
CNRS UMR 8126,
Room 325, PR1, IGR,
Villejuif, France, 94805
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sites.google.com/site/vasilyogryzko/
