Authors : Mohammad Ebrahimi

Volume/Issue : Volume 10 - 2025, Issue 4 - April

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DOI : https://doi.org/10.38124/ijisrt/25apr2073

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Abstract : Biological systems exhibit a remarkable duality, operating across quantum and classical regimes. This article introduces the concept of the Quantum Homunculus ("Quantuculus")—a proposed network of wave-like signals emitted by cells, with distinct frequency-amplitude signatures in health and disease. We discuss how biomolecules, particularly DNA, mediate this duality: at nanometer scales (e.g., 2 nm DNA width), quantum effects like coherent charge transfer and proton tunneling dominate, while chromosomal DNA (∼10 cm) behaves classically due to rapid decoherence. The boundary between these regimes is defined by three factors: (1) environmental decoherence (photon emission, phonon scattering, spin relaxation), (2) thermal noise at 310K, and (3) molecular size. We argue that evolution exploits transient quantum states (femtosecond coherence in DNA repair, microsecond spin correlations in magnetoreception) where they confer functional advantages, while classical physics governs larger-scale processes. This framework rejects "quantum vitalism" but highlights nature’s precision engineering at the quantum-classical interface, with implications for bioinspired technologies.

Keywords : Quantum Homunculus, DNA, Classical Physics, Quantum Physics, Quantum-Classical Interface.

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