quantum biology
Can Machines Be Conscious? The Substrate Problem
The question of whether machines can be conscious is not a parlor trick for philosophers. It is the most consequential engineering question of the 21st century.
Quantum Entanglement, Nonlocality, and Consciousness: Metaphor or Mechanism?
In 1935, Albert Einstein co-authored a paper with Boris Podolsky and Nathan Rosen that was intended to prove quantum mechanics was incomplete. The paper described a scenario in which two particles that have interacted remain correlated even after being separated by arbitrary distances —...
Penrose, Gravity, and Consciousness: Why the Mind Is Not a Computer
Roger Penrose is one of the most decorated scientists alive. He shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for proving that black holes are a necessary consequence of general relativity.
Brain Biophotons Detected: The Human Brain Emits Light
In May 2025, researchers at the University of Calgary published a landmark paper in the Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters reporting the first detection of biophotons emitted by the living human brain from outside the skull. Using ultra-sensitive single-photon detectors cooled to near...
Orchestrated Objective Reduction Gets Its Strongest Experimental Backing
For three decades, the Orchestrated Objective Reduction (Orch OR) theory of consciousness has occupied a peculiar position in science: simultaneously the most ambitious and most ridiculed theory in the field. Proposed by Nobel laureate physicist Roger Penrose and anesthesiologist Stuart Hameroff...
Ten Mind-Blowing Brain Discoveries of 2025: A Synthesis
The year 2025 may be remembered as the year consciousness science crossed from philosophical speculation into engineering-grade empirical investigation. Inspired by Scientific American's tradition of year-end discovery roundups, this synthesis examines the ten most consequential brain and...
Gregg Braden: The Bridge-Builder Between Science and Soul
There is a particular kind of person who shows up at the hinge points of history -- someone who can stand with one foot in the old world and one foot in the new, and instead of being torn apart by the tension, they build a bridge. Gregg Braden is that kind of person.
Quantum Biology, Fractal Evolution, and the Birth of a New Humanity
We are living through the collapse of one civilization and the birth of another. The chaos, the breakdown of institutions, the ecological crisis, the mental health epidemic, the political polarization -- these are not signs of failure.
Epigenetics and Consciousness: How Your Mind Rewrites Your Genetic Code
There is a revolution happening in biology, and most people have not heard about it. For decades, the scientific establishment taught that genes are destiny -- that the double helix of DNA is a fixed program running your body like software runs a computer.
Frequency Healing: Solfeggio Frequencies, 432 Hz, and the Science of Sound as Medicine
Every ancient civilization on Earth used sound as medicine. Egyptian temples were designed as acoustic resonance chambers.
Heart Intelligence and Intuition: The Heart Knows Before the Brain
Intuition is one of the most commonly reported yet least understood aspects of human experience. Everyone has had the feeling: a gut sense that something is right or wrong, a sudden knowing that arrives without logical reasoning, a flash of insight that defies the sequential process of rational...
Quantum Tunneling in Enzymes and the Quantum Theory of Smell: When Particles Walk Through Walls
Imagine throwing a tennis ball at a concrete wall. In the classical world — the world of Newton, the world of everyday experience — the ball bounces back.
The Quantum Compass: How Birds See Magnetic Fields With Entangled Electrons
Every autumn, European robins — small, rust-breasted songbirds weighing barely 20 grams — leave their breeding grounds in Scandinavia and fly thousands of kilometers south to the Mediterranean. They navigate with precision that would impress a seasoned pilot, crossing featureless oceans and...
Quantum Effects in DNA and Consciousness: The Deepest Layer
We have traced quantum biology from photosynthesis to bird navigation, from enzyme tunneling to the theory of smell. Each of these discoveries is remarkable on its own.
Quantum Biology: The Field That Should Not Exist
There is a quiet revolution happening at the intersection of physics and biology, and it is rewriting the rules of what we thought possible inside living systems.
McFadden's CEMI Field Theory: Consciousness IS the Brain's Electromagnetic Field
In 2002, Johnjoe McFadden — a Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Surrey, a specialist in quantum biology and tuberculosis, and decidedly not a New Age mystic — published a paper in the Journal of Consciousness Studies that proposed one of the most radical and testable theories...
Biofield Science and Research: The Electromagnetic Body
Every living organism generates electromagnetic fields. The human heart produces an electrical field measurable by electrocardiogram (ECG) from meters away.
Mae-Wan Ho: The Organism as a Liquid Crystal Rainbow
In 1993, Mae-Wan Ho pointed a polarizing microscope at a living fruit fly larva and saw something that should not have been possible according to conventional biology. The entire organism glowed with brilliant, iridescent colors -- like a living rainbow.
HeartMath and Pre-Stimulus Response: Does the Heart Know the Future?
In a laboratory at the HeartMath Institute in Boulder Creek, California, a research participant sits calmly in front of a computer screen. Electrodes on her chest monitor her heart's electrical activity.
Biophotons: Your Body Is a Light-Emitting Organism and DNA Is the Antenna
As you read these words, your body is emitting light. Not heat radiation — that is infrared, and every warm object emits it.
The Placebo Effect: Consciousness Creates Biology
The placebo effect is not a glitch in the medical matrix. It is the single most replicated finding in clinical medicine — and arguably the strongest empirical evidence that consciousness directly rewrites biological code.
Energy Medicine: A Practitioner's Guide to the Luminous Energy Field
Before you had a body, you had a blueprint. Before the blueprint, you had light.