[Fis] Biological Organisation as the True Foundation of Reality

[Joseph Brenner]

Dear FIS Colleagues,

As I have noted on other occasions, Brian Josephson deserves our respect for his fundamental discoveries in solid-state physics (the Josephson junction). Unfortunately, a subsequent foray into physics - his alleged demonstration of cold nuclear fusion - was a fraud.

Despite the prestigious venue of this current effort, in my opinion, it faithfully reproduces every weakness and instance of circular reasoning and binary thinking that is hampering progress in understanding reality, its relations and the origin of meaning. I get incensed at the repetition that it is algorithms that must be used to better understand biological systems. I, as well as many others, have never believed that nature was meaningless but that the process of meaning had to be defined carefully to avoid hand-waving nonsense.

Without the necessary grounding in physics, which Josephson's references do not seem to provide (please correct me here), the term used by Josephson of 'entangled intra-relating' is empty. To say that reality and image are different but connected, a pipe and an image of a pipe, is not incorrect but trivial. The connections are, exactly, non-interactive, without energy exchange.

If someone can point to a single new and valid statement that Josephson has made that adds to our understanding of nature and biological organization, perhaps he/she could point it out.

Thank you and best wishes,

Joseph

 


---- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov 
  To: fis 
  Sent: Sunday, July 10, 2016 4:20 PM
  Subject: [Fis] Biological Organisation as the True Foundation of Reality






  Dear All,


  I would like to disseminate this lecture given by Brian Josephson at the 
  2016  Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting on June 29t:


  http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/2277379


  Best wishes,


  Plamen




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  2016 Foundations of Information Science Forum: Five Discussion Sessions on Phenomenology and Life (February-May, 2016)


  2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological Philosophy  
  (note: free access to all articles until July 19th, 2016)


  2013 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Can Biology Create a Profoundly New Mathematics and Computation?


  2012 Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality


  2011 INtegral BIOmathics Support Action (INBIOSA)  



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