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Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events

Maurizio Benfatto, Elisabetta Pace, Catalina Curceanu, Alessandro Scordo, Alberto Clozza, View ORCID ProfileIvan Davoli, View ORCID ProfileMassimiliano Lucci, View ORCID ProfileRoberto Francini, Fabio De Matteis, Maurizio Grandi, View ORCID ProfileRohisha Tuladhar, View ORCID ProfilePaolo Grigolini
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/558353
Maurizio Benfatto
1Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Via E. Fermi 40-00044 Frascati (Italy)
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Elisabetta Pace
1Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Via E. Fermi 40-00044 Frascati (Italy)
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Catalina Curceanu
1Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Via E. Fermi 40-00044 Frascati (Italy)
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Alessandro Scordo
1Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Via E. Fermi 40-00044 Frascati (Italy)
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Alberto Clozza
1Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati-Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare-Via E. Fermi 40-00044 Frascati (Italy)
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Ivan Davoli
2Dipartimento di Fisica-Università di “Tor Vergata”-Via della Ricerca Scientifica-00133 Roma (Italy)
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Massimiliano Lucci
2Dipartimento di Fisica-Università di “Tor Vergata”-Via della Ricerca Scientifica-00133 Roma (Italy)
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Roberto Francini
3Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale-Universita di “Tor Vergata”-Via del Politecnico-00133 Roma (Italy)
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Fabio De Matteis
3Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale-Universita di “Tor Vergata”-Via del Politecnico-00133 Roma (Italy)
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Maurizio Grandi
4Istituto La Torre-Via M. Ponzio 10-10141 Torino (Italy)
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Rohisha Tuladhar
5Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, (USA)
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Paolo Grigolini
5Center for Nonlinear Science, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, (USA)
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Abstract

We study the emission of photons from germinating seeds. We make the assumption that the germination process is a spontaneous transition to criticality and we show that the statistical analysis of the photon emission leads to a deviation from the ordinary processes of statistical physics compatible with that assumption. The method of statistical analysis adopted has been used in the past to analyze the human brain dynamics and the music of Mozart. It is surprising that the germinating seeds share the same complexity as the human brain and the music of Mozart.

Author summary There exists a widespread and increasing conviction that cognition is not just limited to human beings, but rather it emerges with life itself. We believe that cognition is the result of a self-organization process generating intermittent chaos, i.e., extended time regions of order are separated by rare and short chaotic bursts called crucial events. These fluctuations that generate a compressible time series can be reproduced along with the information transmitted using a computer program based on a finite number of instructions. We focus our attention on an elementary but fundamental biological process; the germination of lentils to show that during germination they emit photons called biophotons. We make a statistical analysis of the time series representing the number of biophotons emitted per unit of time. This analysis was used in the recent past to study the prototype of intelligent systems-the human brain. The result of this analysis is that the complexity of the germination-induced crucial events is the same as that of the human brain. This result confirms the conjecture that cognition is a universal biological property and sheds light into the cell to cell communication through biophotons.

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Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events
Maurizio Benfatto, Elisabetta Pace, Catalina Curceanu, Alessandro Scordo, Alberto Clozza, Ivan Davoli, Massimiliano Lucci, Roberto Francini, Fabio De Matteis, Maurizio Grandi, Rohisha Tuladhar, Paolo Grigolini
bioRxiv 558353; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/558353
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Biophotons: low signal/noise ratio reveals crucial events
Maurizio Benfatto, Elisabetta Pace, Catalina Curceanu, Alessandro Scordo, Alberto Clozza, Ivan Davoli, Massimiliano Lucci, Roberto Francini, Fabio De Matteis, Maurizio Grandi, Rohisha Tuladhar, Paolo Grigolini
bioRxiv 558353; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/558353

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