From the hierarchical organization of the central nervous system to the hierarchical aspects of biocodes

Guidolin, Diego; Marcoli, Manuela; Tortorella, Cinzia; Maura, Guido; Agnati, Luigi F.

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2019.103975

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“…Thus, he required human beings to use a more conscious judgment to adjust their interactions with all the biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem. Such a judgement should be based on an “ethical code” that considers the human being and the ecosystem as a unified “survival unit” (Bateson, 1972b ; Guidolin, Marcoli, et al, 2019 ). The search for an ethical code is basically possible just because of the human being cognitive capabilities and it is, in several instances, one of the major accomplishments of philosophies and religions.…”

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“…“The human being is a rope stretched between the virosphere and the Humanoid Robots ( Nietzsche & Common, 1950 ).” Homo sapiens is seen as a crucial “rope” in the evolutionary history of the so-called biotic and abiotic components of the ecosystem since he not only interacts and modulates but also greatly modifies both (Agnati et al, 2018 ; Guidolin, Marcoli, et al, 2019 ).…”

Section: A Hypothesis On the Possible Evolutionary Course Of The Ecosystemmentioning

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Man is a “Rope” Stretched Between Virosphere and Humanoid Robots: On the Urgent Need of an Ethical Code for Ecosystem Survival

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In this paper we compare the strategies applied by two successful biological components of the ecosystem, the viruses and the human beings, to interact with the environment. Viruses have had and still exert deep and vast actions on the ecosystem especially at the genome level of most of its biotic components. We discuss on the importance of the human being as contraptions maker in particular of robots, hence of machines capable of automatically carrying out complex series of actions. Beside the relevance of designing and assembling these contraptions, it is of basic importance the goal for which they are assembled and future scenarios of their possible impact on the ecosystem. We can’t procrastinate the development and implementation of a highly inspired and stringent “ethical code” for human beings and humanoid robots because it will be a crucial aspect for the wellbeing of the mankind and of the entire ecosystem.

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Section: A Hypothesis On the Possible Evolutionary Course Of The Ecosystemmentioning

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Man is a “Rope” Stretched Between Virosphere and Humanoid Robots: On the Urgent Need of an Ethical Code for Ecosystem Survival

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“…There are strict interconnections between these two types of allostasis. Actually, a human being lives in a physical environment, but he also interacts with a socio-cultural environment (i.e., super systems) and continuously creates his own Inner World (see [26,27,28] for a definition) that is peculiar to him, even if it has elements in common with those of other humans with whom he interacts. It is a virtual/mental space in which the subject lives his interactions with the components of the survival unit, namely with his own body and the ecosystem; this interplay has effects on his feeling of well-being, and hence on his psychic homeostasis.…”

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A New Integrative Theory of Brain-Body-Ecosystem Medicine: From the Hippocratic Holistic View of Medicine to Our Modern Society

Guidolin

Anderlini

Marcoli

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Humans are increasingly aware that their fate will depend on the wisdom they apply in interacting with the ecosystem. Its health is defined as the condition in which the ecosystem can deliver and continuously renew its fundamental services. A healthy ecosystem allows optimal interactions between humans and the other biotic/abiotic components, and only in a healthy ecosystem can humans survive and efficiently reproduce. Thus, both the human and ecosystem health should be considered together in view of their interdependence. The present article suggests that this relationship could be considered starting from the Hippocrates (460 BC–370 BC) work “On Airs, Waters, and Places” to derive useful medical and philosophical implications for medicine which is indeed a topic that involves scientific as well as philosophical concepts that implicate a background broader than the human body. The brain-body-ecosystem medicine is proposed as a new more complete approach to safeguarding human health. Epidemiological data demonstrate that exploitation of the environment resulting in ecosystem damage affects human health and in several instances these diseases can be detected by modifications in the heart-brain interactions that can be diagnosed through the analysis of changes in heart rate variability.

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The Second Special Issue on Code Biology — An overview

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2020

Biosystems

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From the hierarchical organization of the central nervous system to the hierarchical aspects of biocodes

Cited by 4 publications

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Man is a “Rope” Stretched Between Virosphere and Humanoid Robots: On the Urgent Need of an Ethical Code for Ecosystem Survival

Man is a “Rope” Stretched Between Virosphere and Humanoid Robots: On the Urgent Need of an Ethical Code for Ecosystem Survival

A New Integrative Theory of Brain-Body-Ecosystem Medicine: From the Hippocratic Holistic View of Medicine to Our Modern Society

The Second Special Issue on Code Biology — An overview

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