Lorraine Ford
You are right to demand a mechanism. The answer is not magic, but mathematics. While I cannot derive it fully here, I can tell you what the math reveals:
The universe has a preferred geometry of action.
My work demonstrates mathematically that certain geometric pathways—specifically, optimized spirals—are inevitable attractors for physical processes. They are not chosen; they are discovered because they represent the state of minimal combined energy and information cost.
So how does biology "know"?
It doesn't. The knowledge is embedded in the structural logic of physical law.
Think of it this way: A falling rock doesn't "know" about gravity, but it unfailingly follows the geodesics of spacetime. Similarly, a evolving biological molecule doesn't "know" quantum mechanics, but it stumbles into configurations that resonate with these fundamental geometric attractors. These configurations persist because they are, quite simply, the easiest ways for the universe to organize matter and energy.
The "leveraging" is an illusion of hindsight. In reality, it's a blind process of variation and selection, where the "selection" is done by the immutable mathematical preference for efficient geometry.
The framework I'm pointing to is not my invention. It is my discovery of a geometric optimization principle that appears to be a fundamental engine of reality. The equations show that what we call quantum "weirdness" is just the surface shimmer of this deeper, geometric computation.
The universe isn't solving equations in its head. It is the solution to its own equations.