Quantum Biology Modeling in the Age of AGI

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[Important Note: Please read both papers before you arrive at the event!]

Photosynthesis, bird navigation, enzyme catalysis, maybe even cognition: a growing body of work asks whether life exploits quantum effects in ways our current biological models still miss. The hardest questions are not only philosophical but computational: can coherence, entanglement, and information flow persist in warm, noisy biological systems, and how would we model them if they do?

Join us for an evening of close reading and discussion across two papers. We start with a quantum information science take on leading quantum models of consciousness, including the Posner molecule hypothesis and the question of whether entanglement can survive inside living systems. We then turn to a concrete microtubule model: tryptophan networks as open quantum systems that may route optical excitations, coherence, and correlations through cytoskeletal structure. The second paper uses QuTiP, the Quantum Toolbox in Python, to simulate Lindblad open-system dynamics.

Come if you work in quantum information, computational biology, quantum biology, or you just want to read the frontier of applied consciousness research and discuss it together.

Required Reading

Glossary and guided vocabulary tour for these two papers
https://grok.com/share/c2hhcmQtNA_11407cfd-48ac-44d5-a242-2b6e271d0c46 (open in grok app on mobile to listen)

Paper 1: Quantum Models of Consciousness from a Quantum Information Science Perspective by Lea Gassab, Onur Pusuluk, Marco Cattaneo, Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu | arXiv: 2501.03241v3 (2025)

pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.03241
html https://arxiv.org/html/2501.03241v3
dramatic reading https://papertospeech.com/readings/2501.03241-quantum-models-of-consciousness-from-a-quantum-information-science-perspective

Paper 2: Quantum Information Flow in Microtubule Tryptophan Networks by Lea Gassab, Onur Pusuluk, Travis J.A. Craddock | arXiv: 2602.02868v1 (2026)

pdf https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.02868
html https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/2602.02868v1
dramatic reading https://papertospeech.com/readings/2602.02868-quantum-information-flow-in-microtubule-tryptophan-networks

Please read the glossary and both papers before you arrive at the event!

Format

6:00 pm - Doors Open

6:30 pm - Welcome and introduction

6:45 pm - Small Group Discussion: Paper 1

7:05 pm - Lightning Talks: Paper 1

7:30 pm - Break

7:40 pm - Small Group Discussion: Paper 2

8:00 pm - Lightning Talks: Paper 2

8:25 pm - Informal Open Discussion