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VIII. Earth Earns: An Open Participatory Earthropocene to Astropocene CoCreative Future

1. Mind Over Matter and Energy: Quantum, Atomic, Chemical, Astronomic Realms

Alsharif, Mohammed, et al. Sixth Generation (6G) Wireless Networks: Vision, Research Activities, Challenges and Potential Solutions. Symmetry. 12/4, 2020. An international team posted in Korea, Nigeria, Oman, Turkey, and Pakistan scope out this new hyper-dimensional worldwise knowledge transmission system. By order of magnitude advances and reach it promises ever faster speeds and content capacity. Once again, our premise is that this noosphere, conceived a century ago by V. Vernadsky and P. Teilhard, into the 21st century is manifestly coming to its (her/his) own knowledge and revolutionary discovery.

The standardization activities of fifth generation communications are clearly over and deployment has commenced globally. To sustain the competitive edge of wireless networks, industrial and academia synergy have begun to conceptualize the next generation of wireless systems (sixth generation, 6G) aimed at laying the foundation for communication needs of the 2030s. In support, this study highlights promising lines of research from the recent literature for the 6G project. Thus, this article will contribute significantly to opening new horizons for future research directions. (Abstract excerpt)

Alvarez-Rodriguez, U., et al. Artificial Life in Quantum Technologies. arXiv:1505.03775. University of the Basque Country theorists, led by Enrique Solano, blaze the frontiers of human uniVerse imaginations as this foundational realm becomes known by the same complex, organic, evolutionary sense as everywhere else. A “quantum biomimetics” is then evoked by which this cosmic genesis appears poised to be taken over, as intended, by to our phenomenal intention.

We develop a quantum information protocol that models the biological behaviors of individuals living in a natural selection scenario. The artificially engineered evolution of the quantum living units shows the fundamental features of life in a common environment, such as self-replication, mutation, interaction of individuals, and death. We propose how to mimic these bio-inspired features in a quantum-mechanical formalism, which allows for an experimental implementation achievable with current quantum platforms. This result paves the way for the realization of artificial life and embodied evolution with quantum technologies. (Abstract)

Arroyo, Marta et al. A Stochastic Approach to Shortcut Bridging in Programmable Matter. Natural Computing. Online September, 2018. We cite this by MA, University of Granada, Sarah Cannon, UC Berkeley, Joshua Daymode and Andrea Richa, ASU and Dana Randal, Georgia Tech as an example of the cosmic evolutionary epic entering a radically novel phase of total makeover, a second Alpha one might say, as our intentional, globally informed, respectful humankinder may begin a new ecosmos (re)creation.

In a self-organizing particle system, an abstraction of programmable matter, simple computational elements called particles with limited memory and communication self-organize to solve system-wide problems of movement, coordination, and configuration. In this paper, we consider a stochastic, distributed, local, asynchronous algorithm for “shortcut bridging”, in which particles self-assemble bridges over gaps that simultaneously balance minimizing the length and cost of the bridge. Army ants of the genus Eciton have been observed exhibiting a similar behavior in their foraging trails, dynamically adjusting their bridges to satisfy an efficiency trade-off using local interactions. Our work gives a plausible explanation of how convergence to globally optimal configurations can be achieved via local interactions by simple organisms with some limited computational power and access to random bits. (Abstract excerpts)

Arute, Frank, et al. Quantum Supremacy using a Programmable Superconducting Processor. Nature. 574/505, 2019. We note this entry with some 90 co-authors from Google AI Quantum to the University of Illinois for its historic claim of qubit-based computations which ran at a faster speed and demonstrated more capability than classic machines. While said to be debatable, we note this milestone as our collective human ingenuity enters a new intentional phase of genesis procreation going forward.

Asano, Masanari, et al. Quantum Information Biology: From Information Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics to Applications in Molecular Biology and Cognitive Psychology. arXiv:1503.02515. Also noted in Quantum Complex Systems, an example of the current revolution to join life’s natural genesis with this physical foundation, an international team from Japan and Sweden waxes over how well this deepest informative source can be readily and beneficially integrated with and applied to evolution and intelligence. See also a book length version Quantum Adaptivity in Biology: From Genetics to Cognition by most of the same team (Springer, April, 2015).

We discuss foundational issues of quantum information biology (QIB) -- one of the most successful applications of the quantum formalism outside of physics. QIB provides a multi-scale model of information processing in bio-systems: from proteins and cells to cognitive and social systems. This theory has to be sharply distinguished from "traditional quantum biophysics". The latter is about quantum bio-physical processes, e.g., in cells or brains. QIB models the dynamics of information states of bio-systems. It is based on the quantum-like paradigm: complex bio-systems process information in accordance with the laws of quantum information and probability. This paradigm is supported by plenty of statistical bio-data collected at all scales, from molecular biology and genetics/epigenetics to cognitive psychology and behavioral economics. We argue that the information interpretation of quantum mechanics (its various forms were elaborated by Zeilinger and Brukner, Fuchs and Mermin, and D' Ariano) is the most natural interpretation of QIB. We also point out that QBIsm (Quantum Bayesianism) can serve to find a proper interpretation of bio-quantum probabilities. Biologically QIB is based on two principles: a) adaptivity; b) openness (bio-systems are fundamentally open). These principles are mathematically represented in the framework of a novel formalism -- quantum adaptive dynamics which, in particular, contains the standard theory of open quantum systems as a special case of adaptivity (to environment). (Abstract)

Atkinson, William. Nanocosm: Nanotechnology and the Big Changes Coming from the Inconceivably Small. New York: AMACON/American Management Association, 2003. Predictions and speculations about a revolutionary future.

Atzori, Matteo and Roberta Sessoli. The Second Quantum Revolution: Role and Challenges of Molecular Chemistry. Journal of the American Chemical Society. 141/29, 2019. Materials scientists posted in France and Italy cite this title phrase to designate present progress in the actual applications of quantum phenomena such as coherence, sensing, optics, entanglement and more. In this title regime, they are used to form hierarchical super-structures in biomaterials. See also A Chemical Path to Quantum Information by Stephen von Kugelgen and Danna Freedman in Science (366/1107, 2019).

An implementation of modern Quantum Technologies might benefit from the remarkable properties shown by molecular spin systems. In this Perspective, we highlight the role that molecular chemistry can have in the current second quantum revolution, i.e., the use of quantum principles to create novel advanced technologies. We review the current status of the field by identifying recent advances made by the molecular chemistry community, such as the design of molecular spin qubits with long spin coherence and multiqubit architectures. (Abstract excerpt)

Auffeves, Alexia. Quantum Technologies Need a Quantum Energy Initiative. PRX Quantum. June, 2022. As this 21st century, 2020s second revolution becomes readily feasible, we cite this example by a Universite Grenoble Alpes, CNRS physicist which surveys an array of thermodynamic features and concerns with regard to resource, probabilistic, fluctuation, etc. efficiencies and costs.

Quantum technologies have high expectations from governments and private companies, as they promise to shape safer and faster ways to extract, exchange, and treat information. However, despite its major impact for industry and society, their energetic usages are rarely part of deployment strategies. In this Perspective, I argue that quantum advances plan a transverse quantum energy initiative, so to connect quantum thermodynamics, information science, and engineering.

Azuma, Koji, et al. Quantum repeaters: From quantum networks to the quantum internet. Reviews of Modern Physics. 95/045006, 2023. Seven researchers with postings in Japan. France, Hong Kong, the USA, Netherlands and Canada both in academia and business post a comprehensive overview across six dense chapters, 75 pages and 700+ references of this awesome project. As a tragic year ends, we might turn from a dark past to glimpse an infinite future frontier, a new light age. Whatever could such a scintillating sapiensphere be like, learn, know, heal, benefit?

A quantum internet is the holy grail of quantum information processing, enabling a broad range of technologies and protocols on a global scale. However, serious needs such as the realization of a quantum repeater, an essential component in its long-distance transmission, must be met. As the analog of a classical repeater, extender, or booster, this device overcomes loss and noise in the network channels. Here conceptual frameworks and as well as experimental progress to date are reviewed. Various near-term proposals to surpass limits to the communication rates set by point-to-point quantum communication are also discussed. (Excerpt)

To conclude, we stress that a truly global quantum internet requires seamless operation across continents. As different countries are currently pursuing different approaches and strategies for the quantum internet, there will be a need for cooperation and standardization in the design, construction and operation of this major technology. (57)

Bainbridge, William Sims. Nanoconvergence: The Unity of Nanoscience, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2007. A National Science Foundation sociologist gathers and considers the august potentials of these four areas of novel human abilities to take up a new creation. A worthwhile entry to this subject literature broadly under the ‘nano’ banner.

Balakrishnan, Janaki and B. V. Sreekantan, eds. Nature’s Longest Threads: New Frontiers in the Mathematics and Physics of Information in Biology. Singapore: World Scientific, 2014. Scientists and scholars from India wonder at apparent connections and unities between quantum spontaneities and life’s emergent complexity and consciousness. A typical paper might be Knowledge: its Hierarchy and its Direction by Apoorva Patel, an Indian Institute of Science physicist, which contains a summary of universe to human evolution as Hardware (bodily phenotypes) is recycled, while software (generative coding) is improved. So from our retro vista could the developmental course of cosmic genesis be appreciated as the ascendant passage and breakthrough unto our phase of a natural genome?

Organisms endowed with life show a sense of awareness, interacting with and learning from the universe in and around them. Each level of interaction involves transfer of information of various kinds, and at different levels. Each thread of information is interlinked with the other, and woven together, these constitute the universe — both the internal self and the external world — as we perceive it. They are, figuratively speaking, Nature's longest threads. (Publisher)

Ball, Philip. A New Kind of Alchemy. New Scientist. April 16, 2005. Chemists are finding that clusters of atoms, a “super-atom,” composed on a certain number, such as 8, 20, 40, 58, or 92 atoms for aluminum, which completes the filling of its electron shell, takes on unique properties that are different from the original element.

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