[Fis] [Informational Bookkeeping] Jerry LR Chandler

[Pedro C. Marijuan]

Dear colleagues,

Raquel's question was quite intriguing--and difficult to answer for me. 
In different ways I tend to disagree with all the previous responses 
--Karl, Pridi, Jerry. The problem is that I cannot provide a good one of 
my own. Trying to generalize, the molecular bookkeeping mentioned by Bob 
and also by Jerry is physico-chemically well characterized, but at the 
level of bacteria, the corresponding "informational bookkeeping" looks 
quite different--in what ways? Could someone summarize the main 
bookkeeping differences between them?

best --Pedro
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> Asunto: 	Re: [Fis] Informational Bookkeeping
> Fecha: 	Mon, 8 Sep 2014 09:51:28 -0400
> De: 	Jerry LR Chandler <jerry_lr_chandler at me.com>
> A: 	Raquel del Moral <rdelmoral.iacs at aragon.es>
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> Raquel:
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> The bookkeeping of cells and all other living creatures is in terms of atomic numbers.
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> The exactness of this bookkeeping is ensured by the physical laws of the conservation of mass and the conservation of electricity.
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> The method of bookkeeping is by the principles of relatonomics (a term coined for the purpose of bookkeeping by the electrical content of the atomic numbers.)
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> Cheers
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> Jerry
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> On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:11 AM, Raquel del Moral <rdelmoral.iacs at aragon.es> wrote:
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> > Dear Pedro,
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> > The concept of bookkeeping looks very interesting for biology, however, I can't see clearly how to apply it below the level of nervous systems. "Counting" maybe found in most biomolecules, but really registering in a book keeping manner is possible in the lower levels? e.g. unicellulars. Do you think that they modify their behaviour after checking their own bookkeeping registers?
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> > Just this brief comment!
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> > Best,
> > Raquel
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> > 


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