Human Development VI: Supracellular Morphogenesis. The Origin of Biological and Cellular Order

Abstract

Uninterrupted morphogenesis shows the informational potentials of biological organisms. Experimentally disturbed morphogenesis shows the compensational dynamics of the biological informational system, which is the rich informational redundancy. In this paper, we use these data to describe morphogenesis in terms of the development of supracellular levels of the organism, and we define complex epigenesis and supracellular differentiation. We review the phenomena of regeneration and induction of Hydra and amphibians, and the higher animals informational needs for developing their complex nervous systems. We argue, also building on the NO-GO theorem for ontogenesis as chemistry, that the traditional chemical explanations of high-level informational events in ontogenesis, such as transmutation, regeneration, and induction, are insufficient. We analyze the informational dynamics of three embryonic compensatory reactions to different types of disturbances: (1) transmutations of the imaginal discs of insects, (2) regeneration after removal of embryonic tissue, and (3) embryonic induction, where two tissues that normally are separated experimentally are made to influence each other. We describe morphogenesis as a complex bifurcation, and the resulting morphological levels of the organism as organized in a fractal manner and supported by positional information. We suggest that some kind of real nonchemical phenomenon must be taking form in living organisms as an information-carrying dynamic fractal field, causing morhogenesis and supporting the organisms morphology through time. We argue that only such a phenomenon that provides information-directed self-organization to the organism is able to explain the observed dynamic distribution of biological information through morphogenesis and the organism's ability to rejuvenate and heal.

Human Development XIII: The Connection Between the Structure of the Overtone System and the Tone Language of Music. Some Implications for Our Understanding of the Human Brain

“…Our analysis of music seems to confirm our understanding of the brain as presented in an earlier paper [10]. Seemingly, the functioning brain behaves like one highly-structured, but extremely coherent, ball of energy, making the idea of a quantum field that carries the consciousness very likely [11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21]. If that is the case, then the structure of the experience of music might be a quite unique window into a hidden quantum reality of brain and life.…”

Human Development IX: A Model of the Wholeness of Man, His Consciousness, and Collective Consciousness

“…The governing of attention must happen autonomously through shifts between the states of the totality following a genetically determined governing pattern. The realization of the more simple patterns is a condition for the more complex organizations, in the same way as in morphogenesis [7,8].…”

Human Development X: Explanation of Macroevolution — Top-Down Evolution Materializes Consciousness. The Origin of Metamorphosis

“…This means that different behavioral patterns involved in the implementation of a manifested mirror image are the reason why some isolated populations develops to gnats, others to flies, and even others to mosquitoes. Such developmental differences are caused by very small differences in the positional information of the different fractal levels [16,17,18], leading to small changes in the evolution of a population through the ontogenesis of the adult individual, and are under tight control from the superorbital gathered between nature and the involved individuals. This means that these use their gathered consciousness to gain their needs for survival.…”