Infrared life

" This paper focuses on electromagnetic radiation generated in living organisms. In addition to blackbody radiation, which lies mainly in the infrared part of the spectrum, living organisms generate coherent infrared radiation tightly fitted to the transparency window of the Earth's atmosphere. This radiation avoids full thermalisation, acts independently of blackbody radiation, and distinguishes living organisms from non-living ones. The generation is proposed to take place deep on the nanometre scale in the junctions of superconducting microtubules during the propagation of the action potential. The radiation provides fast synchronisation of the functions of organisms and forms a basis for perception, memory, and consciousness. It also enables quantum processing of information and allows direct communication between different organs-and even between distant organisms-at THz frequencies."

" Table I shows typical action potentials of different living organisms. The most common action potential is around 100 mV. This is a characteristic value for all organisms except fungi. Fungi, in contrast, do not display genuine action potential firing, but rather slow-propagating electrical pulses of 5 to 30 mV. Nevertheless, as they have microtubules in their cells, they can still generate a coherent electromagnetic field."

" The mechanism of the radiation is strikingly simple. The voltage of the action potential is directly transduced into the frequency of coherent radiation via formula (1). Since the action potential is nearly the same for all organisms except fungi (see Table 1), they can use shared frequencies — which lie in the transparency window of the Earth’s atmosphere — for detecting living matter, gathering information about potential threats or food sources, and even for communication at THz frequencies. Fungi cannot communicate electromagnetically with most organisms, but they can communicate with plants (see the overlapping action potentials in Table 1). The action potential value of about 100 mV is of evolutionary origin, an adaptation to the transparency window of the Earth’s atmosphere at 8–13 micrometres (23–37 THz)."

" Preliminary comments about an infrared-based quantum model of consciousness have already been formulated [11]. If coherent Josephson generation plays a central role in neural synchronisation, this could provide a simple explanation for overall brain synchronisation, consistent with the estimations presented above. Moreover, coherent Josephson radiation propagating along neurons would synchronise different brain regions far faster and more efficiently than chemical synapses or axonal conduction."