Quantum Computing is necessary for artifical intelligence. The brain is a quantum computer with serotonin as qubit carrier. DNA is a quantum computer. Meme Storage in DNA . Life is software driven.
Ideas compete for replication by our brains just as genes try to get reproduced.
Inherited instinct is software for the brain that seems stored in the vast majority of our DNA which does not code for proteins. The real power of genes and memes is the conscious morphogenetic field connnected to them. Consciousness as a Part of Evolution. Advanced consciousness seeded the planet with life. DNA consciously evolves itself.