<div dir="ltr">Dear Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I’d like to share a possible sensation as of today if true:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://phys.org/news/2016-05-complex-life-billion-years-earlier.html">http://phys.org/news/2016-05-complex-life-billion-years-earlier.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>What would this mean in terms of our discussion about life and medicine?</div><div><br></div><div>Best.</div><div><br></div><div>Plamen</div><div> </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:27 PM, Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com" target="_blank">plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>This is a very interesting note for me, John!<br></div>So, the modern symptomatic medicine, the collection of data about illness characteristics has its roots in philosophy? <br><br></div>Best,<br><br></div>Plamen<br><br><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>____________________________________________________________</div></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 6:16 PM, John Collier <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Collierj@ukzn.ac.za" target="_blank">Collierj@ukzn.ac.za</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">semiotic<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:14.65pt;background-color:white"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(64,64,64)">Dorland's Medical Dictionary for Health Consumers. © 2007 by Saunders, an imprint of Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 17 May 2016 4:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov <<a href="mailto:plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com" target="_blank">plamen.l.simeonov@gmail.com</a>>; fis <<a href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Fis] _ Re: _ Re: _ Re: _ Towards a 3φ integrative medicine<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">thank you for your entertaining way of presenting my Sisyphus theme about medicine in a nutshell, which was mostly enjoyable to read. Actually, you are right, medicine is "messy", which qualifies it more like a liberal art discipline rather
than science, full of workshop type of hustle and bustle, ad hoc insights of mystic adepts followed by faithful scholars and mixed with cutting edge technology wherever possible (in the Western world). It appears that every effort to organize it in the manner
we know in mathematics and physics is doomed to failure. I realise that the subject's depth reflected in my presentation is indeed overwhelming. Yet, it was not my intention to put a Sisyphus rock upon this forum. Thank you for your and Koichiro's simplified
pedestrian analysis of the theme. We can go with thes rephrased set of questions further.
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Thanks for the synthetic attempt. You have put together pretty complex strands of thought that become too demanding for a general response. I will concentrate in a few points.<br>
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What is Medicine? In what extent is it amenable to "integration"? Is reductionism an anathema in medicine? Can we regularly ascend from cellular info flows to organs/systems, and to healthy individuals/environments?
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to me that I cannot focus on one single thing and brainstorm on it all the time. But the idea behind this concluding workshop was to be less philosophical and more practical in trying to investigate if we can reshape medicine as an extension of biology. After
all, huge amounts of money are given for research here, more than in any other field, as far as I know. Are these investments justifyable in the way this "engineering science" is performing today? Is there anything that could make this discipline more predictable,
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(XIII Century), many decades after the first Faculties of Medicine were created in Italy. Why medicine is so messy? Just go the wiki pages on the topic: hundreds of subspecialties are listed, and under all those terms we imply all the internal and external
("natural") phenomena that can derail and put out of track the advancement of a life cycle. Each one of those specialties has to arrange its own world of knowledge, with lots of analytical and synthetic avenues not amenable to neat overall schemes and to formal
approaches except in some reduced pockets. Successful reductionist strategies and analytical techniques are piled up with holistic views, and reams of tacit knowledge (indeed medicine is a very stratified small world of "lords", "masters", "disciples", "servants",
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So, like in engineering, one has to be suspicious of far reaching implications for the term "integrative". Not necessarily in this case with the "3φ" connotation.
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The question is wether we can use such kind of combination from the known natural science disciplines and extend them by some humanitarian fields in order to address key issues in an organised and diligent manner in medicine. We know well that there are both
serios conflicts between some branches and efforts to reconcile them. The prefix I used was to make clear that we are asking for a novel kind of integration, if possible. Yet this prefix definition should not be considered "fixed" once for ever.
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synthesis, protein degradation, signaling, apoptosis, etc. Why the integrative strategy should rely on a term that notwithstanding strong physical grounds, has relatively thin explanatory capability in the biological?
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<p class="MsoNormal">My view, I can be wrong but I have worked considerably on the matter, is that cellular signaling, the crisscrossing of info flows that provide the singular intelligence and adaptability of organisms, is not well articulated yet. Neither
in evo-devo, nor in physiology, medicine and health. In this regard all the present parlance on information processing that accompanies the tremendous technological info-tech revolution does not represent a help, maybe the opposite.
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Sorry if seemingly I have joined the "Cassandra" club!<u></u><u></u></p>
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</span>El 14/05/2016 a las 9:49, Dr. Plamen L. Simeonov escribió:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">My contribution will finalize the discussion on phenomenology in the domains of biology, mathematics, cyber/biosemiotics and physics by the previous speakers (Maxine, Lou, Sœren and
Alex) with a “challenging topic” in <u>3φ integrative medicine</u>. <b>You may wish to skip the small font text notes following each underscored phrase like the one below.</b></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<u><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Note 1:</span></u><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> Although this term is often used as synonym for holistic healing (s. ref. list A), its
meaning in this context with the prefix 3φ goes much “deeper” into the disciplines’ integration leaving no room for speculations by mainstream scientists. The concept is a linguistic choice of mine for the intended merge of the complexity sciences
<u>ph</u>ysics and <u>ph</u>ysiology with <u>ph</u>enomenology for application in modern medicine along the line of integral biomathics (s. ref. list B).
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">It is rooted in the last presentation of Alex Hankey, since it naturally provides the link from physics to physiology and medicine, and thus to an anthropocentric domain implying a leading
part of phenomenological studies. To begin, I compiled a précis of Alex’ thesis about self-organized criticality (s. ref. list C) from his paper “A New Approach to Biology and Medicine” -- the download link to it was distributed in a previous email of him
-- and extended it with my reflections including some questions I hope you will resonate on.
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">I am curious of your opinion about how to apply the scientific method, and in particular mathematics and information science, to study illness and recovery as complex phenomena.
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Alex Hankey: self-organized criticality and regulation in living systems</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">There is a continuous growth and change at the end of a phase transition in an organism, i.e. at its critical point, which is the end point of phase equilibrium.</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Both endo and exo, genetics and epigenetics are important for life.</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Self-organized criticality</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> is a characteristic state of a system at its critical point generated
by self-organization during a long transient period at the complexity edge between order/stability/predictability and disorder/chaos/unpredictability.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Regulation of growth, form and function as a balance between health and illness.</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> The role
of regulation and homeostasis in maintaining the structure and function of living systems is critical. Every deviation from a regulated state of being leads to imbalances, failures and subsystem dysfunction that is usually transitory, but could also become
life-threatening, if the organism cannot find a way to restore quickly to a balanced, healthy state. Living beings are robust and fault-tolerant with respect to hazards; they possess multiple alternative pathways for supplying and maintaining their existential
functions. However, some state transitions in response to severe harms can become practically irreversible, because of the deep evolutionary interlocking between the participating entities and processes. Sometimes the normal functioning of the organism cannot
be easily restored by its natural repair processes, especially when adversities reoccur frequently, and the organism fails ill.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Synchronicity of action and information between the building blocks of a living system.</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> There
is a need for every physiological function to be correctly coordinated with all other “peer” functions. Information flows within a living system interconnect all physiological functions and organs at multiple levels into a single mesh of regulatory interconnections.
Multiple feedback-control loops enable the cross-functional interlocking of both healthy and ill state changes of the organism. Adjacent/peripheral/secondary homeostasis processes act as fine-tuning catalyzers of substrate ratios and process rates exchanged
within the living system. Imbalances of these quantities lead to excess/blockage or scarcity/draining of essential nourishment and information exchange pathways.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Regulation at criticality</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> not only fine-tunes a process, it
<i>optimizes</i> it for survival: with respect to a given generation’s available possibilities in the light of the past generations’ possibilities. To survive an organism or a species needs to develop optimal
<i>response-ability</i> to environmental distress.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">New ecological definition of life according to Hankey: self-regulating, self-reproducing systems that maximize efficiency of function to maximize competitiveness in their chosen environment.
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Summary: Elements of self-organized criticality</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">… and beyond</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">I wish to add a 5<sup>th</sup> aspect to this definition from the perspective of integral biomathics:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The latter is a largely studied matter in contemporary medicine (s. ref. list D), at least at the macro, interpersonal
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The key question in such a “deep holistic” physically-phenomenological physiology (</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">3φ<u>)</u><b>
is how to define or comprehend (self-organized) criticality operationally within the unifying framework of biomathematics and biocomputation</b>. Indeed, a single temporary imbalance within a living system regarded as disease involves multiple agents, perspectives
and interpretations at all levels altogether, moreover <u>simultaneously</u>. </span>
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<u><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Note 3</span></u><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">:
<span style="color:black">Simultaneously at different levels involves very different sized 'moments' at the different scales.</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">So, how should we approach and take into account the other levels/scales in order to derive a reliable diagnosis and
<u>therapy</u>? </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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to survive the integration of the multiple first-person subjective descriptions and the standard third-person objective one.
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Until now criticality has been
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<p style="text-align:justify"><u><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Note 5:</span></u><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> In their 2012 paper “No entailing laws, but enablement in
the evolution of the biosphere” Longo, Montévil and Kauffman claim that biological evolution “marks the end of a physics world view of law entailed dynamics” (<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2069" target="_blank">http://arxiv.org/abs/1201.2069</a>). They
argue that the evolutionary phase space or space of possibilities constituted of interactions between organisms, biological niches and ecosystems is “ever changing, intrinsically indeterminate and even (mathematically) unprestatable”.Hence, the authors' claim
that it is impossible to know “ahead of time the 'niches' which constitute the boundary conditions on selection” in order to formulate laws of motion for evolution. They call this effect “radical emergence”, from life to life. Yet this applies to abiotic dissipative
structures like tornadoes as well. Living beings are not radically different in this respect. In their study of biological evolution, Longo and colleagues carried close comparisons with physics. They investigated the mathematical constructions of phase spaces
and the role of symmetries as invariant preserving transformations, and introduced the notion of “enablement” to restrict causal analyses to Batesonian differential cases (1972: “the difference that makes a difference”). The authors have shown that mutations
or other “causal differences” at the core of evolution enable the establishment of non-conservation principles, in contrast to physical dynamics, which is largely based on conservation principles as symmetries. Their new notion of “extended criticality” also
helps to understand the distinctiveness of the living state of matter when compared to the non-animal one. However, their approach to both physics and biology is also
<i>non-phenomenological</i>. The possibility for endo states that can trigger the “(genetic/epigenetic) switches of mutation” has not been examined in their model. This is intended to be different in 3φ<i> integrative medicine</i>. </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">If we split a human body into macro (patient), mezzo (systems) and micro levels (cells) three distinct questions regarding phenomenology arise: i)
<i>how</i> these levels pervade into each other with <span style="color:black">larger scale providing context (boundary conditions) and lowest scale providing raw materials for middle scale to function,</span> monitor and control vital processes, ii)
<i>who/which</i> are the agents taking care for this to happen spontaneously, and iii)
<i>what kind and role</i> plays information in the context of i) and ii). After all w<span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">hat we are concerned about is modeling the agency of the systems in the mezzo level.</span>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Where should we go from here?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">In particular, I am interested to know
<b>what kind of <i>scientific-phenomenological methodology</i> can be developed and applied for investigating
</b>the following three major groups of ailments:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">oncological diseases</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> with a particular focus on spatial and temporal heterogeneity both in terms
of flawed histological structures and biochemical reactions;</span><u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">neuro-degenerative disorders</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> such as vascular dementia, Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases:</span><u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">altered organ and physiological system failures</span></b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> such as the Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome
(MODS), cardiovascular and autoimmune diseases.</span><u></u><u></u></li></ol>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)" lang="EN-US">In the first group, the
<b>extreme diversity of cancer tissue structures and circulating tumor cells (CTC) concentrations over both spatial and temporal scales</b> makes the reliable classification, diagnosis, model/hypothesis generation, forecast and treatment of individual patients
very difficult. This is a real challenge for modern pathology. Another problem is that pathologists are actually dealing with random tissue and blood samples over irregular periods, which hinder the exact 3D histological reconstruction of the tumor formations
and tracing their development over time and space. Using additional means such as diagnostic sonography, CT, MRT and PET images do not improve sufficiently the hypotheses about the individual cancer morphology and development. All this makes tumor classification
and diagnosis, even when analyzing high-resolution digital images from biopsy slices by means of virtual microscopy, very difficult and often a guesswork also for experts. The recent advances in high-performance medical scanning and automation systems, computerized
visualization and graphical modeling tools, as well the collection of huge amounts of anonymous patient data in specialized medical databases make the impression that the solution of these problems is only a question of more automation, performance, investment
and time. However, many pathologists begin to realize a third problem, namely that
<b>tumors appear to be <i>unique</i> in their histological structure and development</b>, related to the personal history and the overall state of health of the individual patients. This argument reveals the need for developing a more personalized and differentiated
medicine that goes over scales without becoming purely symptomatic, causality-driven and reductionistic.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Recent research in the other two fields leads to the same conclusion. Therefore, I think that we may be able to develop and test hypotheses about emergence and development of deficiency
and illness that will lead to individual therapies in <i>3φ</i> integrative medicine. Your ideas regarding this assumption are very welcome.
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Some interesting questions bridging the previous discussion sessions to this one are:
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">- Why does a human embryo repeat the evolutionary history of its species when going through its development stages? Is it because it is more secure to project and set up the execution
of a future life plan by tracing and bodily memorizing a series of evolutionary encoded (successful) “locks” through equilibrium states at the edge of criticality?
</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">- Which is the
<i>vital </i>role of recursion and repetition of life processes including their material and information exchange flows in the criticality driven self-regulation for recovery from imbalances and the reversibility and healing of diseases? How can we effectively
model such processes?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">- Do we make difference between a physicist’s time and a biologist’s time in complex living systems?</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> I look forward to your feedback and notes on the subject.</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">References:</span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">A.
<u>Integrative Medicine</u></span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Integrative Medicine: </span><a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Integrative_medicine" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrative_medicine</span></a><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">What Is Integrative Medicine?:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="DE"><a href="http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/alternative-medicine-integrative-medicine" target="_blank">http://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/features/alternative-medicine-integrative-medicine</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Integrative Medicine Research:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<cite><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/integrative-medicine-research/" target="_blank">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/integrative-medicine-research/</a></span></cite><u></u><u></u></p>
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<cite><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal" lang="EN-US"> </span></cite><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Advances in Integrative Medicine</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<cite><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-integrative-medicine" target="_blank">http://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-integrative-medicine</a></span></cite><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p style="margin-left:36pt"><cite><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal" lang="EN-US">B.
<u>Integral Biomathics</u></span></b></cite><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><cite><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal" lang="EN-US">Integral Biomathics:</span></cite><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Integral_Biomathics" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_Biomathics</a><b><i> </i></b></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Integral Biomathics: A Post-Newtonian View into the Logos of Bios
</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0703/0703002.pdf" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0703/0703002.pdf</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">On Some Recent Insights in Integral Biomathics:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1306/1306.2843.pdf" target="_blank">https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1306/1306.2843.pdf</a>.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Integral Biomathics Reloaded: 2015 (free access until July 19<sup>th</sup> 2016):</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610715001509" target="_blank">http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079610715001509</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">C.
<u>Self-organized criticality</u></span></b><u><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">:</span></u><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Self-organized criticality:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Self-organized_criticality" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Self-organized criticality (SOC):</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.johnboccio.com/courses/SOC26/15-SOC.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.johnboccio.com/courses/SOC26/15-SOC.pdf</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Self-organized criticality:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/8.334/www/grades/projects/projects12/V.%20A.%20Golyk.pdf" target="_blank">http://web.mit.edu/8.334/www/grades/projects/projects12/V.%20A.%20Golyk.pdf</a></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Self-organized criticality – what it is and what it isn’t</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.96.8017&rep=rep1&type=pdf" target="_blank">http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.96.8017&rep=rep1&type=pdf</a>.
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<b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">D.
<u>Phenomenology in Medicine</u></span></b><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(3,37,17)" lang="EN-US">The meaning of illness: a phenomenological approach to the physician/patient relationship:
<a href="https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/handle/2104/8286" target="_blank">https://baylor-ir.tdl.org/baylor-ir/handle/2104/8286</a> ;
</span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(38,38,38)" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8286" target="_blank">http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8286</a>.
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Body Matters: A Phenomenology of Sickness, Disease, and Illness:</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"><a href="http://philpapers.org/rec/AHOBMA" target="_blank">http://philpapers.org/rec/AHOBMA</a>.
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US"> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Suffering Transfigured: Phenomenological Personalism In the Doctor-Patient Relationship:
<a href="http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1658&context=ymtdl" target="_blank">
http://elischolar.library.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1658&context=ymtdl</a>.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">The challenge of neuroscience: Psychiatry and phenomenology today:
<a href="https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/zpm/psychatrie/fuchs/Challenge_of_Neuroscience.pdf" target="_blank">
https://www.klinikum.uni-heidelberg.de/fileadmin/zpm/psychatrie/fuchs/Challenge_of_Neuroscience.pdf</a>.
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<span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">Rediscovering Psychopathology: The Epistemology and Phenomenology </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">of the Psychiatric Object:
</span><a href="http://cfs.ku.dk/staff/zahavi-publications/Rediscovering_Psychopathology.pdf" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">http://cfs.ku.dk/staff/zahavi-publications/Rediscovering_Psychopathology.pdf</span></a><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">.</span><u></u><u></u></p>
<p style="margin-left:36pt"><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif" lang="EN-US">PHENOMENOLOGY IN PSYCHIATRY:
<a href="http://www.wpanet.org/uploads/Sections/Philosopy_and_Humanities/Phenomenology-in-Psychiatry.pdf" target="_blank">
http://www.wpanet.org/uploads/Sections/Philosopy_and_Humanities/Phenomenology-in-Psychiatry.pdf</a>.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/00796107/119/3" target="_blank">2015 JPBMB Special Issue on Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics and Phenomenological Philosophy</a> </span><u></u><u></u></p>
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