Stan, lists, That is true, since there are many abiotic dissipative structures, including your favorite tornadoes, Koichiro's abiotic citric acid cycle, and my favorite Belousov-Zhabotinsky reacion. But the key point of Step i in the diagram is that you need to dissipate free energy to convert genetic information to functions such as space-and-time-ordered action potentials in neurons or EEG in the brain. Or, to explain how a certain DNA molecule turns into zimpanzees while some others into mice or men. If you look around, Stan, you will find few papers, if any, in contemporary biology that address this important question.
To the best of my knowledge, the conformon theory cited in [11] may be one of the few, if not the only, molecular theory yet proposed that can accomplish the genetic information-function transduction. The experimental evidence supporting the conformon theory has been reviewed in [11, and 6, pp. 240-246, 369-377; PDFs available at http://www.conformon.net under Publications > Refereed Journal Articles or Book Chapters]. If you have any question, let me know. All the best. Sung On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Stanley N Salthe <[email protected]> wrote: > Sung -- The diagram: You don't need genetics to get dissipative structures. > > STAN > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Sungchul Ji <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Physics, biology, and philosophy are well established disciplines that >> cover a major portion of all human knowledge. The natural question that >> arises is >> >> "Are physics, biology, and philosophy related ? If so, how ?" >> (062615-1) >> >> My tentative answer to this question is Yes, because I now begin to see >> how this challenging task might be accomplished -- along the lines >> indicated in the scheme I recently formulated (see attached). The title of >> the scheme is >> >> "An argument-symbolic-legisign that integrates physics, biology, and >> yin-yang philosophy." (062615-2) >> >> The scheme is not yet complete and may contain some illogical elements >> which need be identified and corrected. If you have any questions or >> suggestions, please let me know. >> >> All the best. >> >> Sung >> >> -- >> Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. >> >> Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology >> Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology >> Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy >> Rutgers University >> Piscataway, N.J. 08855 >> 732-445-4701 >> >> www.conformon.net >> > > -- Sungchul Ji, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy Rutgers University Piscataway, N.J. 08855 732-445-4701 www.conformon.net
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