Macroevolution, differentiation trees, and the growth of coding systems

Igamberdiev, Abir U.; Gordon, Richard

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105044

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“…This is based on the alterations of the morphogenetic coordinate system, as described by D'Arcy Thompson [86], and can be based on parametrization of the morphogenetic field (the normalization principle), as suggested by Gurwitsch [87]. Such parametrization can occur in morphogenesis via the alterations of differentiation trees [88,89]. Mikhailovsky and Levich [27] called this omnicausality to emphasize its difference from the bottom-up causality characteristic of classical physics.…”

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Toward the Relational Formulation of Biological Thermodynamics

Igamberdiev

2023

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Classical thermodynamics employs the state of thermodynamic equilibrium, characterized by maximal disorder of the constituent particles, as the reference frame from which the Second Law is formulated and the definition of entropy is derived. Non-equilibrium thermodynamics analyzes the fluxes of matter and energy that are generated in the course of the general tendency to achieve equilibrium. The systems described by classical and non-equilibrium thermodynamics may be heuristically useful within certain limits, but epistemologically, they have fundamental problems in the application to autopoietic living systems. We discuss here the paradigm defined as a relational biological thermodynamics. The standard to which this refers relates to the biological function operating within the context of particular environment and not to the abstract state of thermodynamic equilibrium. This is defined as the stable non-equilibrium state, following Ervin Bauer. Similar to physics, where abandoning the absolute space-time resulted in the application of non-Euclidean geometry, relational biological thermodynamics leads to revealing the basic iterative structures that are formed as a consequence of the search for an optimal coordinate system by living organisms to maintain stable non-equilibrium. Through this search, the developing system achieves the condition of maximization of its power via synergistic effects.

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