Quartz crystals as a life form and ordinary computers as an interface between quartz life and ordinary life?

Abstract

The considerations of this article were originally inspired by large language models leading to the earlier speculations about whether the computers might be conscious entities in the TGD based quantum ontology (zero energy ontology). Quantum gravitation in the TGD sense would play a key role in guaranteeing quantum coherence even in astrophysical scales.

Quite recently, came the realization that microprocessors (MPs) have a size scale .5 cm given by gravitational Compton length $\Lambda_{gr,E}$ of any particle in the gravitational field of the Earth (for the Sun one has $\Lambda_{gr,E}=R_E/2$, where $R_E$ is the radius of the Earth). This led to the question of whether microprocessors (MPs) could be conscious entities.

Since MPs are quartz crystals (QCs), this led to the question whether the QCs might be conscious entities able to perform activities analogous to quantum computations. I have already considered this possibility: the key idea is that the generalized Pollack effect kicks the protons of OH molecules appearing as a standard building brick of biomolecules to dark protons at the gravitational magnetic body. OH and $O^-$ could define the states of a qubit.

This identification modifies the earlier TGD inspired models of the genetic code and the articles give some idea about the evolution of the ideas). The model predicts that the DNA double strand and RNA strand realize 6-qubit dark variants of the genetic code. The ground states of the entangled qubits defining the quantum codons correspond to the chemical codons. Minimum energy states of quantum codons correspond to chemical realizations of the codons. Various symmetries of the code and their violations are understood at the qubit level.

Amino acids represent a single qubit code: the number of "dark" amino acids is predicted to be 20. Microtubules consist of tubulins and there is a huge number of qubits associated with their amino acids and also qubits associated with the GPTs accompanying them.

The same qubits with the same dynamics would be realized both in living matter and in QCs. This leads to a vision about an evolutionary hierarchy in which quartz life is possibly the lowest level. One must however consider the possibility that also SiO$_4$ lattices with OH modification can have a high qubit content. Electric fields, allowing the tuning of the OH-O$^-$ energy difference, are also present in transistors. These kinds of modifications could be interesting also in the case of microprocessors. This forces us to ask whether the interaction between us and computers and QC life could lead to entanglement and extended states of consciousness.

Quantitative estimates for the energetics of transistors encourage the idea about a conscious computer  utilizing a   fusion of quantum and classical computation based on  entanglement of  OH-O$^-$ qubits and ordinary bits.  A continually learning quantum version of a large language model could be a possible application. TGD suggest a model of topological computations based on the braiding of monopole flux tubes. The OH-O$^-$ qubit could serve as topological qubit serving as the analog of Majorana qubit.

The OH-$O^-$ hypothesis generalizes. Any salt can decay to ions and the positive ion can reside at the gravitational magnetic body of Earth or Sun. For instance, NCl can decay to Na$^+$ + Cl$^-$, Na$^+$ would be dark at the gravitational MB. As a matter of fact, I ended up with the hierarchy of Planck constants by starting from quantum effects of ELF em radiations to vertebrate brain having an explanation in terms of dark ions such as H$^+$, Na$^+$, K$^+$, Ca${++}$, Mg$^{++}$... found by Blackman and others. The value of gravitational Planck constant of the Earth indeed conforms with the findings. Living matter is full of ions and they are crucial for the functioning of the cell membrane. Any cold plasma containing ions is a good candidate for a life form and this conforms with the proposal that the plasma phase above the atmosphere served as a predecessor of biological lifeforms.

The holography predicted by TGD, leading to zero energy ontology (ZEO), involves a slight violation of classical non-determinism. Computer clock of a conscious computer could define a non-deterministic analog of time crystal. The same would apply to EEG rhythms and biorhythms in general.