A first time reader of yours (hi!), led here from Goodreads; and as a fellow gobbler of knowledge, I'm compelled to suggest a random paper that I read in the past, which your first quote (Somers') in this article reminded me of: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0103017
"Carbon—The First Frontier of Information Processing"
Perhaps something you may like as a microbiologist?
A first time reader of yours (hi!), led here from Goodreads; and as a fellow gobbler of knowledge, I'm compelled to suggest a random paper that I read in the past, which your first quote (Somers') in this article reminded me of: https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0103017
"Carbon—The First Frontier of Information Processing"
Perhaps something you may like as a microbiologist?