Re: [Fis] Fis Digest, Vol 24, Issue 14

2016-03-19 Thread Jagers op Akkerhuis, Gerard
Dear Plamen, Pedro and colleques, I have no experience with the medium of this forum so hopefully my suggestion will arrive at the right spot. Plamen, I like to link to your suggestion below. It is interesting to see that you view the theory that the first cells have emerged without genetics as

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2016-03-19 Thread Stanley N Salthe
Pedro -- You are right to look dubiously at the achievement of neoDarwinism as the sole theory of biology. What is missing (and it was realized already in the 1950’s with Schmalgausen and Waddington) is development. All dissipative structures develop -- immaturity followed by a short maturity foll

Re: [Fis] SYMMETRY & _ On BioLogic

2016-03-19 Thread Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
Dear Lou and All, I am sorry. The FIS server has returned my email as undelivered, most probably because of the PDF attachment. This is actually a paper authored by Bob Root-Bernstein and his daughter, Meredith. It is on researchegate.net and can be requested from them. The title is: “The ribosome

Re: [Fis] SYMMETRY & _ On BioLogic

2016-03-19 Thread Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
Dear Lou and Colleagues, yes, I agree: an artistic approach can be very fruitful. This is like what Stuart Kauffman says about speaking with metaphors. At some point our mathematical descriptive tools do not have sufficient expressional power to grasp more global general insights and we reach out

Re: [Fis] SYMMETRY & _ On BioLogic

2016-03-19 Thread Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov
Dear Lou, Pedro and Colleagues, I have another somewhat provoking question about the "constructive" role of topology in morphogenesis. What do you think about the somewhat artistic, but scientifically VERY controversial theory about the origin and development of life forms based on physical forces