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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span lang="DE-AT">Biodiversity
and </span>Cartography<span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The excellent summary by Pedro of the session just past highlights
several different areas of processes, which appear to be interrelated at least
in some methodological ways. Pedro says in effect: “… systems such as
circulatory, pulmonary, renal, brain, etc. …” appear to work in a comparable
fashion, which has probably to do with fusing of two different spaces into one
common space. <span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Please allow me to propose a visualisation. We see a
landscape with hills and valleys. Some local biotopes have evolved, in which
specific flora and fauna are endemic, well adapted to their respective local
circumstances. We suspect that there are common traits present in the
management of the diverse habitats, with some obviously sustainable feedback
loops – otherwise the area would be barren. In this allegory, if one
investigates the functions in circulatory systems, one would be likened to
someone investigating insect life in a rainy forest in a division of our
imagined landscape. A person looking into the workings of the renal systems
could be seen as a team investigating the life of mammals in a savanna.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Among these field workers, a land surveyor tries to find
someone who would be interested in a new way to formalise the parameters of
each and all of the habitats, and tabulate every possible variety of anything
that lives in any of the habitats. This invention is way beyond the needs of
any of the field teams investigating the adaptations the fauna had to undergo
due to the properties of the flora, or partly the other way around. The teams
have heard about trigonometry and satellite positioning, but they are not
involved with the infrastructure of science. It would take a road building
engineer to see slopes and angles everywhere, and of that profession are the
biologists not. The teams could have heard about continual change, because they
understand that change is what life is all about, but they had never thought to
be possible to actually use measurable change tools like one uses a scalable
microscope.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Trigonometry would have remained a special pastime for
scientists, had not lenses, oculars and sextants been produced to the necessary
degree of mechanical precision. For the applications of trigonometry to become
ubiquitous in our everyday life, it was necessary to have achieved progress in
fine mechanics and precision measurement tools. The technology had to keep step
with the ideas. Both the ideas were present and the tools have become
available. The innovation could become integrated into the culture.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Presently, we try to understand the concept of information.
In Pedro’s words: “… two 3D projections are fused into a 4D one. The gain in
information is evident …”. The implication of Pedro’s thought is that
sequences, generally: order, are depositories of information, which gets – in a
fashion – released or actualised in the moment of the fusion of two spaces into
a common, third, space.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">This state of affairs puts the problem with technology and
ideas on its head. We do have the technology to produce any kind of imaginable
order and disorder and to find such closed loops that are self-replicating.
What we lack presently is the understanding by the prospective users that they
need such a tool, and that such a tool is a) thinkable, b) designable, c)
realisable, d) working, e) useful. <span> </span><span> </span><span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">To give an example:<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The two spaces Pedro refers to are well defined. They can be
observed by reordering expressions of <i>a+b=c
</i>on the properties <i>{a+b,a;b-2a,a;a-2b,b-2a
(A), a+b,b;b-2a,a-2b;a-2b,a (B)}</i>. Euclid spaces <i>(A) </i>and <i>(B)</i> merge
together into Newton space <i>(C), </i>of
which the axes are <i>a+b, b-2a, a-2b.</i>
The axes of space <i>(C)</i> have each <i>two </i>sub-axes: this is the reason that 1
logical linear position can have 4 planar coordinate-pairs. (This was narrated
some two years ago in this FIS chatroom also, being Step Eight of the lecture
Learn to Count in Twelve Easy Steps. Otherwise see: Natural Orders.)<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">May be suggestion be allowed that it would be more precise
to talk of merging (co-resonance) of planes rather than of merging of spaces.
In a logical sense, the space is generated by a continuous turn of 3 planes and
should not be assumed to have an independent, a-priori existence.<span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The land surveyor presents his compliments to the officials
involved in managing progress of society and may politely suggest, that some
precision tools have been fabricated, by which the results of the endoscopy of
order and information can be unwrapped, extricated and applied to manifold
uses. <span> </span><span></span></p>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-01-30 14:06 GMT+01:00 Pedro C. Marijuan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_-8119463797103812054moz-cite-prefix">Dear FISers,<br>
<br>
Apart from the very interesting critique by Sungchul, there is an
intriguing comment I would like to make respect the new
evolutionary views presented. I will risk to discuss on a topic,
topology, too far from my usual fields. So I trust the benevolence
of FIS readers. <br>
<br>
As far as we have been told, the germ line cells, the gametes,
contain each one a DNA algorithmic "hemi-description" of the
future multicellular ensemble organism. When fertilization occurs,
the two different hemi-descriptions are put together in a unique,
complete DNA algorithm. Then, paying attention to the BUT (Borsuk
Ulam Theorem) insights presented in this list by Tozzi and Peters,
we might interpret that two 3D projections are fused into a 4D
one. The gain in information is evident, and it is this gain what
makes possible the construction of the multicellular ensemble.
That 4D structures and dynamics are present in the multicellular
may be evidenced by the fractality of most of that construction
(systems such as circulatory, pulmonary, renal, brain, etc.).
Actually the presence of 4D dynamics in cerebral information
processing has been repeatedly highlighted by different authors.
Now, what John Torday argues, is that an essential mission of the
multicellular construct becomes the gathering of adaptive
epigenetic marks editing the 3D hemi-descriptions, so that the
future ensemble may be better adapted to its environment... <br>
<br>
In the extent to which the above has any cogency, there emerges a
new disciplinary front to check the enigmatic continuation of the
gamete/zigote/organism along the eons of life.<br>
<br>
Best--Pedro <br><div><div class="h5">
<br>
<br>
El 24/01/2018 a las 15:33, JOHN TORDAY escribió:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear FIS colleagues, Pedro has pointed out some
rookie errors in my post. You can find my paper "From
cholesterol to consciousness" at <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28830682" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.<wbr>gov/pubmed/28830682</a>.
Hopefully you have access to the paper without having to buy it.
If you don't please email me at <a href="mailto:jtorday@ucla.edu" target="_blank">jtorday@ucla.edu</a> and i will
send you a copy. As for addressing consciousness at the
cellular/molecular level, I understand that the mental health
professionals have a problem with consciousness beyond the
brain/mind. But I consider that anthropocentric. Just like every
other aspect of our physiology, consciousness is the
endogenization of environmental factors. In the case of
consciousness it is the vertical integration of calcium fluxes
for all of the cells of the organism. All organisms are
conscious of their surroundings to one degree or another. And
self-reference is, in my opinion, a result of the
Singularity/Big Bang, so it would apply to all organisms,
unicellular and multicellular alike. I refer to the experiments
of Helmut Plattner, exposing paramecia to glucose. When the
paramecium homes in on the sugar its 'nervous system' of calcium
flux lights up just like the neurons in our brains. And as to
the extrapolation from individual consciousness to cosmology
based on the homologies between Quantum Mechanics and
Evolutionary Biology, I see that as a means of fully
understanding the significance of consciousness as the
connection between the animate and inanimate as one continuous
Singularity. It is only in that way that the true nature of
Nature can be fully understood. As for smaller increments, the
work of Daniel Fels on electromagnetic communication between
cells may hold the answer (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793142/" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/<wbr>pmc/articles/PMC4793142/</a>).
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<div>Best, John</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 5:41 AM, Pedro
C. Marijuan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>></span>
wrote:<br>
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<div class="m_-8119463797103812054m_-3460398545966745048moz-cite-prefix">Dear
John and FIS colleagues,<br>
<br>
It was nice hearing your response. For technical reasons
of the server, <u>attachments are unwelcome</u> (and
often directly rejected). Send please a web address
where interested people can download your document.
Also, it is better if you send directly your response to
FIS list (<u><b><a class="m_-8119463797103812054m_-3460398545966745048moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fis@listas.unizar.es" target="_blank">fis@listas.unizar.es</a></b></u>).
About your content, I see a couple of problems
introducing "consciousness" at the cellular/molecular
level. For this term has a very definite meaning in the
<i>ad hoc</i> research that is taken place during last
decades. Conflating it with basic cellular processes may
not be necessary, given that other terms (more realistic
ones?) are available. For instance, I referred to
self-referential cognition. In any case, I agree that
classical autopoiesis falls too short of what is
needed... Besides, about the cosmological relationship
with fundamental physics, is it a convenient step? Does
it introduce a premature closure in the
bio-informational thinking process? <br>
<br>
Best--Pedro
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El 22/01/2018 a las 16:02, JOHN TORDAY escribió:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Dear FISers, I greatly appreciate
Pedro's comments regarding my New Year Lecture. I
fully agree with his comment "<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> That
life's physiology is based on the conjunction of
a few principles: neguentropy, chemiosmosis, and
homeostasis-homeorhesis" applies to non-living
states too. I did not intend to make that
statement exclusive, and if it sounded like that
Pedro's clarification is important. In fact have
just published a paper entitled "Quantum
Mechanics Predicts Evolutionary Biology" which
is predicated on the hypothesis that
self-referential self-organization is the result
of the Singularity/Big Bang, Newton's Third Law
of Thermodynamics that every action has an equal
and opposite reaction. That idea would apply to
both evolutionary biology and to balanced
chemical reactions alike. As for the question of
the emergence of self-referential consciousness
'right at the beginning', I am in favor of that
concept, as I have expressed it in a recent
paper, entitled "From Cholesterol to
Consciousness" (see attached) so I look forward
to reading your comments about that idea as
well, since it has the potential to fully
integrate physics and biology in my humble
opinion. </span></div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at
4:01 AM, Pedro C. Marijuan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es" target="_blank">pcmarijuan.iacs@aragon.es</a>></span>
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<div class="m_-8119463797103812054m_-3460398545966745048m_-3976825554907599061moz-cite-prefix">Dear
FISers,<br>
<br>
Going to the extreme, I think this year
opening lecture can be summarized in three
contentious points. <br>
<br>
1. That life's physiology is based on the
conjunction of a few principles:
neguentropy, chemiosmosis, and
homeostasis-homeorhesis.<br>
<br>
2. That communication (cell signaling) is
an essential factor in the multicellular
evolution towards complexity.<br>
<br>
3. That epigenetic inheritance and the
obligate recursion to the unicellular
state become the basis of a new
evolutionary theory.<br>
<br>
I disagree with point 1, as I think some
nonliving states could also be
characterized by those principles (eg,
chemical cycles/hypercycles in marine
vents, and other outcomes derived from
"energy flows"); besides, some previous
"info stuff" has to be in place. Then I
completely agree with point 2, for
signaling is not just another
characteristic of the cell, it is "the"
eukaryotic trait par excellence. And I am
curious on how point 3 could be further
substantiated... In this respect I
recommend the two papers that Bill sent to
the list a few weeks ago. Do we need to
postulate the emergence of a form of
"self-referential cognition" right at the
beginning?<br>
Perhaps!<br>
<br>
All the best--Pedro<br>
<br>
<br>
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El 09/01/2018 a las 19:05, Bill escribió:<br>
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<div class="m_-8119463797103812054m_-3460398545966745048m_-3976825554907599061moz-cite-prefix">Dear
Pedro and Colleagues, <br>
<br>
I have been following the thread of
comments with great interest, all of
which have all been occasioned by John
Torday's profound insights about the
nature of evolutionary development in
light of the importance of cell-cell
signaling and molecular biology. From
the comments, it is clear that there is
a strong impulse to seek a means of
integrating the role of symbiogenesis,
viruses and mobile elements, multilevel
selection, niche construction, genomic
plasticity into a common narrative with
an informational perspective at its
foundation. <br>
In the spirit of that line of
discussion, I am offering two links that
discuss evolution as an biologic
information management system. Some of
this work shares direct commonality with
John's, since he and I are frequent
collaborators. <br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/5/2/21/htm" target="_blank">http://www.mdpi.com/2079-7737/<wbr>5/2/21/htm</a><br>
<br>
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961071730233X" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/<wbr>science/article/pii/S007961071<wbr>730233X</a><br>
<br>
Both of these articles can be considered
as complementary to Pedro's very fine
article, 'How prokaryotes ‘encode’ their
environment: Systemic tools for
organizing the information flow', which
is in BioSystems. <br>
<br>
I am grateful to John for inviting me to
participate in the forum and to Pedro
for encouraging me to share these
manuscripts. <br>
<br>
Best regards, <br>
Bill<br>
<br>
William B. Miller, Jr., M.D.<br>
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