(Short Paper19) The Eyeball Organ as a Privileged I/O Port in the In Vivo QPU Paradigm: Visual System Edge Computing and Fail-Safe Mechanisms Associated with Sleep Deprivation
Sep 2026· Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Abstract
In conventional neuroscience, the visual organ—the eyeball—has been treated as a “passive sensor that converts external photon information into electrical signals at the retina and transmits them to the cerebral visual cortex.” However, within the framework of the in vivo quantum processing unit (Bio-QPU) theory, the cell groups constituting the eyeball possess a highly privileged status within the whole-body QPU network. This paper redefines the retina not merely as an input organ, but as an “ultra-long-life visual edge QPU,” and formulates the extraocular muscles as “essential hardware” for debugging the system’s absolute coordinates. Furthermore, it elucidates from a quantum information perspective that eye-related disorders occurring during sleep deprivation (e.g., difficulty opening eyelids, photophobia, and excessive tearing) are “fail-safe and physical cooling mechanisms” designed to protect QPUs with incomplete zero-point calibration from decoherence.
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