Daniel Bilezikian

Centrioles — protein corpuscles found within the centrosome, the cell's architectural and biochemical 'decision-making' center — migrate to the cell periphery to nucleate cilia, membrane-bound sensory-motor extensions of the cell. Deeply conserved across eukaryotic evolution, cilia remain central to sensation, satiation, and novelty detection. Crucially, signatures consistent with quantum coherence, entanglement and tunneling have now been reported across four independent families of proteins within the ciliary membrane, alongside ongoing research into the microtubule architectures at its core. We will establish the biology of centrioles and cilia, examine quantum biological phenomena in the molecular machinery associated with these organelles, and consider how such effects may influence signal detection, integration and transmission within the cell. Finally, we will explore the hypothesis that centrioles and cilia constitute a previously unrecognized information-processing architecture whose organization, dynamics, and quantum properties may have implications for theories of cellular consciousness and the emergence of consciousness more broadly.

Daniel is a quantum biologist and consciousness researcher with a materials science background from studying the evolution of photonic structures in animals and designing in vivo nanotechnology. His graduate work identified the eukaryotic cilium as a uniquely quantum-mechanically active environment within the cell, opening avenues of inquiry from the mechanisms of cancer to the biology of consciousness.

He is currently studying the mind & engineering the future at Quantum Life Technologies.