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A new dinosaur has been discovered in South Korea, called Doolysaurus huhmini.
It lived ~103.45 million years ago.
🚨 What if consciousness doesn't just run on electrical signals but on actual light?
Not metaphorically. Literally.
Your neurons emit ultra-weak photon flashes called biophotons, byproducts of mitochondrial activity. Scientists wrote them off as metabolic noise for decades. That assumption is now being seriously challenged.
Two papers are driving the conversation:
February 2025 (iScience) researchers detected biophotons streaming from living human brains, measured non-invasively through the skull. Emissions shifted with cognitive states in real time. They're calling it "photoencephalography" reading brain activity with light instead of electrodes.
March 2026 (Biophysics & Molecular Biology) — a major review argues these photons carry quantum properties: coherence, superposition, possibly entanglement. Neuron-to-neuron communication at the speed of light. Millions of times faster than any chemical signal.
Supporting this, 2025 experiments sent entangled photon pairs through actual brain tissue and the quantum correlations survived. In a warm, wet 37°C environment that should instantly destroy them. That wasn't supposed to happen.
It connects to Penrose-Hameroff's Orch-OR theory and raises a wilder possibility: consciousness isn't just produced by the brain's electrochemistry, it may emerge from a quantum-optical field running parallel to it.
The caveats are real. No confirmed signaling mechanism. Coherence in biological tissue is still a massive "if." This is early and speculative.
But the data keeps arriving. And the "hard problem" why brain activity feels like anything at all, still has no classical answer.
Maybe we've been looking for the wrong signal this whole time. 🧠
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The female blanket octopus unfurls a long cape when threatened to intimidate predators, and will tear tentacles off the poisonous Portuguese man-of-war to use as weapons.
📽: Joseph Elayani