We propose a unified multi-scale dynamical framework that rigorously distinguishes distributed biological cognition from phenomenal consciousness. Microtubules, present in all eukaryotic cells, are identified as the primary substrate for non-local, non-factorisable information processing through quantum-coherent fractal oscillations (triplets-of-triplets, Hz to THz range). This distributed...
Conventional artificial intelligence architectures, reliant on unidirectional classical processing, excel at pattern recognition but fall short of genuine cognition and consciousness. This article introduces a speculative interdisciplinary framework, Quantum Bio-Morphism (QBM), for engineering Xenogeneic Intelligence (XI) - consciousness-like states in non-biological substrates through...