Inside communication in nanostructured evolutionary automata — nanophysics and an information concept for viable technologies

Abstract

On the background of previous research work concerning a nanoscale approach to a theory of biomimetic evolutionary systems and biomimetic information processing it is shown that strictly formal‐logic based, “hard‐wired” electronic hardware misses the very physical nature of bioevolvability. A new, physics‐base concept of information, and a new concept of hierarchical, open and dissipative “evolware”, much like biosystems “wetware”, are required for developing an actually biomimetic “evolutionary automata” technology, but a basic inter‐ and intra‐level communication problem is shown to affect the whole automaton's nanostructure. The problem consists in the difficulty of setting forth causal links bridging the whole hierarchy, from the nanoscale up to the macroscopic structure‐functions.

A Nanoscale Thermal Field Theoretic Approach to the Gene Notion

“…Facts, and a systematic approach to their interpretation, first within well established frameworks of knowledge, should inspire the life sciences on the basis of the Boltzmann-Dirac "2 nd scientific revolution" [14]. The following concepts are developed with a view to a systematic paving of the pathway to discuss the question of a possible quantum ultimate root of life and biological intelligence, the latter being conceived of as physically embodied in life itself, and of a quantum nature of the new notion of information [2,13] needed to their description. The gene, being both an evolutionary and an information bearing agency, is considered here the key point on that way to try and solve said problem in our thought categories.…”

“…Even a link between biosystem structure -function solidarity and the fundamental physics of the Universe [11], as well as microphysical noncomputable processes in the physics of mind [12] have been hypothesized, and the meaning and possibility of non-computability in principle in mind processes has been discussed [6]. It is not a trivial problem indeed to interpret life and biological intelligence as a fully autopoietic version of the nanostructured hardware -software (dynamic -symbolic) hierarchical levels, with their logical and semantic intra-and interlevel communication problems [2,13], envisaged for technological biomimetic evolutionary automata. The problem of "emergence" -what it is and whether it occurs in all that -together with the problems of a physically holistic description -what it consists of and its limits -turn out again.…”

“…More should be added indeed within the realm of an "emergence reductionism". Applying in that case the physical concept of information [2,6,13], said "something contained" would be a mere metaphore for the emergent property of conjugation (through convolution, compression, simulation and therefore abstraction as formation of collective properties) of external signals with the internal activity of the gene itself. At the mesoscopic level, the interaction dynamics would be of both classical and quantum nature.…”

“…But as the models listed above may be thought of as embodying not mere approximations for attaining handier computations, but as relaxation time-based different physical levels and information-based hierarchies reflected in the proper boundary conditions of our equations, the models themselves would act as real physical members of this wetware-software, dynamic-symbolic hierarchy [1,2,13] so giving suggestions as to the structural (topological) singularities to be considered in applying the boson transformation theorem. As in other systems [13], topology plays a basic role in life processes, and the QFT framework shows its underlying microphysics, with the vacuum state a k │0> = 0. TFT adds to the Heisenberg equations and to the canonical commutation relations the thermal state condition A│0 T > = 0 for certain operators A, indicating that A is an annihilation operator.…”

Integrating Solar Energy in Rome's Built Environment: A Perspective for Distributed Generation on Global Scale

“…Assuming to integrate the PV functionality on the surface of all Rome's residential building rooftops (22 million m 2 ), even previous generation PV modules affording 1 kW for each 10 m 2 would generate about 3.2 TWh of clean electricity annually there where this energy is mostly needed.…”