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In this paper, we present the applications of the mathematical formalism of quantum mechanics and its methodology to modeling biosystems’ behavior.(c) The recent years were characterized by explosion of interest to applications of quantum theory outside of physics, especially in cognitive psychology, decision making, information processing in the brain, molecular biology, genetics and epigenetics, and evolution theory.4 We call the corresponding models ''quantum-like''. They are not directed to micro-level modeling of real quantum physical processes in biosystems, say in cells or brains (cf. with biological applications of genuine quantum physical theory Penrose 1989,<ref>Penrose R. The Emperor’S New Mind Oxford Univ. Press, New-York (1989)</ref> Umezawa 1993,<ref>Umezawa H. Advanced Field Theory: Micro, Macro and Thermal Concepts AIP, New York (1993)</ref> Hameroff 1994,<ref>Hameroff S. Quantum coherence in microtubules. a neural basis for emergent con- sciousness? J. Cons. Stud., 1 (1994)</ref> Vitiello 1995,<ref>Vitiello G. Dissipation and memory capacity in the quantum brain model Internat. J. Modern Phys. B, 9 (1995), p. 973</ref> Vitiello 2001,<ref>Vitiello G. My Double Unveiled: The Dissipative Quantum Model of Brain, Advances in Consciousness Research, John Benjamins Publishing Company(2001)</ref> Arndt et al., 2009,<ref>Arndt M., Juffmann T., Vedral V. Quantum physics meets biology HFSP J., 3 (6) (2009), pp. 386-400, 10.2976/1.3244985</ref> Bernroider and Summhammer 2012,<ref>Bernroider G., Summhammer J. Can quantum entanglement between ion transition states effect action potential initiation? Cogn. Comput., 4 (2012), pp. 29-37</ref> Bernroider 2017<ref>Bernroider G. Neuroecology: Modeling neural systems and environments, from the quantum to the classical level and the question of consciousness J. Adv. Neurosci. Res., 4 (2017), pp. 1-9</ref>). Quantum-like modeling works from the viewpoint to quantum theory as a measurement theory. This is the original Bohr’s viewpoint that led to ''the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics'' (see Plotnitsky, 2009<ref>Plotnitsky A. Epistemology and Probability: Bohr, Heisenberg, SchrÖdinger and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking Springer, Berlin, Germany; New York, NY, USA (2009</ref> for detailed and clear presentation of Bohr’s views). One of the main bio-specialties is consideration of ''self-measurements that biosystems perform on themselves.'' In our modeling, the ability to perform self-measurements is considered as the basic feature of biological functions (see Section 8.2 and paper Khrennikov et al., 2018<ref name=":0">Khrennikov A., Basieva I., PothosE.M., Yamato I. Quantum Probability in Decision Making from Quantum Information Representation of Neuronal States, Sci. Rep., 8 (2018), Article 16225</ref>).

In quantum-like modeling, quantum theory is considered as calculus for prediction and transformation of probabilities. Quantum probability (QP) calculus (Section 2) differs essentially from classical probability (CP) calculus based on Kolmogorov’s axiomatics (Kolmogorov, 1933<ref name=":2">Kolmogorov A.N. Grundbegriffe Der Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung Springer-Verlag, Berlin (1933)</ref>). In CP, states of random systems are represented by probability measures and observables by random variables; in QP, states of random systems are represented by normalized vectors in a complex Hilbert space (pure states) or generally by density operators (mixed states).5 Superpositions represented by pure states are used to model uncertainty which is yet unresolved by a measurement. The use of superpositions in biology is illustrated by Fig. 1 (see Section 10 and paper Khrennikov et al., 2018<ref name=":0" /> for the corresponding model). The QP-update resulting from an observation is based on the projection postulate or more general transformations of quantum states — in the framework of theory of quantum instruments (Davies and Lewis, 1970<ref name=":3">Davies E.B., Lewis J.T. An operational approach to quantum probability Comm. Math. Phys., 17 (1970), pp. 239-260</ref>, Davies, 1976<ref name=":4">Davies E.B. Quantum Theory of Open Systems. Academic Press, London (1976)</ref>, Ozawa, 1984<ref name=":5">Ozawa M. Quantum measuring processes for continuous observables J. Math. Phys., 25 (1984), pp. 79-87</ref>, Yuen, 1987<ref name=":6">Yuen, H. P., 1987. Characterization and realization of general quantum measurements. M. Namiki and others (ed.) Proc. 2nd Int. Symp. Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, pp. 360–363.</ref>, Ozawa, 1997<ref name=":7">Ozawa M. An operational approach to quantum state reduction Ann. Phys., NY, 259 (1997), pp. 121-137</ref>, Ozawa, 2004<ref name=":8">Ozawa M. Uncertainty relations for noise and disturbance in generalized quantum measurements Ann. Phys., NY, 311 (2004), pp. 350-416</ref>, Okamura and Ozawa, 2016<ref name=":9">Okamura K., Ozawa M. Measurement theory in local quantum physics J. Math. Phys., 57 (2016), Article 015209</ref>) (Section 3).

[[File:Schrodinger 1.jpeg|left|thumb|Fig. 1. Illustration for quantum-like representation of uncertainty generated by neuron’s action potential (originally published in Khrennikov et al. (2018)).]]

We stress that quantum-like modeling elevates the role of convenience and simplicity of quantum representation of states and observables. (We pragmatically ignore the problem of interrelation of CP and QP.) In particular, the quantum state space has the linear structure and linear models are simpler. Transition from classical nonlinear dynamics of electrochemical processes in biosystems to quantum linear dynamics essentially speeds up the state-evolution (Section 8.4). However, in this framework “state” is the quantum information state of a biosystem used for processing of special quantum uncertainty (Section 8.2).