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The phenomenon of biophoton emission has been an anathema to the paradigm of reductionism because of the shape of its signal and the nature of the emitted photons. The paradigm envisages a large number of identical sub-units, which independently emit photons after excitation. Consequently, the emitted photons are incoherent and the decay character of the signal is exponential. In contrast, the decay character of a biophoton signal is non-exponential and the nature of its photons is coherent. Both characteristics suggest that photons be emitted in a pure quantum state. The emission in a pure quantum state requires a new framework of description and analysis of the signal and a special mechanism operating in living systems or a new paradigm. In the new framework, the evolution of the quantum state determines the shape of the signal. The shape should be situation specific and sensitive to physiological and environmental factors. The special mechanism is eluding us, perhaps, because biophoton emission is a property beyond the domain of fundamental molecular dogma and is a manifestation of a holistic and quantum nature of living systems. There should be a few more manifestations of holistic and quantum nature. A quantum system is intrinsically non-local and its consequences should be observable in macroscopic living systems. It is suspected that many properties of the living systems, hitherto considered bizarre, emanate from non-locality. A coherent photon signal provides an efficient and fast channel of communication. It is speculated that living systems use this channel to transmit information and instructions. Biophotons are used as a non-substantial mode of communications. A message in this mode can be transmitted to a desired entity at long distances with negligible corruption. The message carried by coherent biophoton can be detected even if the intensity of the signal is below the noise level. The quantum detection has a potential to generate the arrow of time and the identity of biological time with cosmological time. It is further hoped that signals similar to biophotons will be easy to generate. Experiments with controlled artificial signals will help us to decipher the information content of a biophoton signal, to understand the working of a living system and to provide a scientific base to the alternative systems of medicine and health care.

*Part of the work was done at the International Institute of Biophysics, e.V., IIB Station Hombroich, Vockrather Strasse, D-41472 Neuss Germany

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