Ebook: Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality

Perhaps the most distinct question in science throughout the ages has been the one of perceivable reality, treated both in physics and philosophy. Reality is acting upon us, and we, and life in general, are acting upon reality. Potentiality, found both in quantum reality and in the activity of life, plays a key role. In quantum reality observation turns potentiality into reality. Again, life computes possibilities in various ways based on past actions, and acts on the basis of these computations.

This book is about a new approach to biology (and physics, of course!). Its subtitle suggests a perpetual movement and interplay between two elusive aspects of modern science — reality/matter and potentiality/mind, between physics and biology — both captured and triggered by mathematics — to understand and explain emergence, development and life all the way up to consciousness.

But what is the real/potential difference between living and non-living matter? How does time in potentiality differ from time in reality? What we need to understand these differences is an integrative approach. This book contemplates how to encircle life to obtain a formal system, equivalent to the ones in physics. Integral Biomathics attempts to explore the interplay between reality and potentiality.

Perhaps the most distinct question in science throughout the ages has been the one of perceivable reality, treated both in physics and philosophy. Reality is acting upon us, and we, and life in general, are acting upon reality. Potentiality, found both in quantum reality and in the activity of life, plays a key role. In quantum reality observation turns potentiality into reality. Again, life computes possibilities in various ways based on past actions, and acts on the basis of these computations.

This book is about a new approach to biology (and physics, of course!). Its subtitle suggests a perpetual movement and interplay between two elusive aspects of modern science — reality/matter and potentiality/mind, between physics and biology — both captured and triggered by mathematics — to understand and explain emergence, development and life all the way up to consciousness.

But what is the real/potential difference between living and non-living matter? How does time in potentiality differ from time in reality? What we need to understand these differences is an integrative approach. This book contemplates how to encircle life to obtain a formal system, equivalent to the ones in physics. Integral Biomathics attempts to explore the interplay between reality and potentiality.

Perhaps the most distinct question in science throughout the ages has been the one of perceivable reality, treated both in physics and philosophy. Reality is acting upon us, and we, and life in general, are acting upon reality. Potentiality, found both in quantum reality and in the activity of life, plays a key role. In quantum reality observation turns potentiality into reality. Again, life computes possibilities in various ways based on past actions, and acts on the basis of these computations.

This book is about a new approach to biology (and physics, of course!). Its subtitle suggests a perpetual movement and interplay between two elusive aspects of modern science — reality/matter and potentiality/mind, between physics and biology — both captured and triggered by mathematics — to understand and explain emergence, development and life all the way up to consciousness.

But what is the real/potential difference between living and non-living matter? How does time in potentiality differ from time in reality? What we need to understand these differences is an integrative approach. This book contemplates how to encircle life to obtain a formal system, equivalent to the ones in physics. Integral Biomathics attempts to explore the interplay between reality and potentiality.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 1-3
Processes and Problems That May Define the New BioMathematics Field....Pages 5-15
Overlap among Dendrites in Neuronal Networks Is a Designed Entity onto Which Functional Topology Is Coded....Pages 17-27
MENS: From Neurons to Higher Mental Processes up to Consciousness....Pages 29-30
A New Approach to the Information in Neural Systems....Pages 31-39
What the Escherichia Coli Tells Neurons about Learning....Pages 41-55
How Do Neural Systems Use Probabilistic Inference That Is Context-Sensitive to Create and Preserve Organized Complexity?....Pages 57-62
Cells, Cell Abstractions, and Information Processing....Pages 63-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-80
Towards Cross-Modeling between Life and Solid State Physics....Pages 81-82
Info-computationalism and Morphological Computing of Informational Structure....Pages 85-95
WLIMES, the Wandering LIMES: Towards a Theoretical Framework for Wandering Logic Intelligence Memory Evolutive Systems....Pages 97-104
A Proposal for Combination of Category Theory and ?–Calculus in Formalization of Autopoiesis....Pages 105-122
A Dynamic-Epistemic Logic for Mobile Structured Agents....Pages 123-128
Front Matter....Pages 129-141
From Life to Mind: 2 Prosaic Miracles?....Pages 143-145
Do the Origins of Biological General Intelligence Lie in an Adaptation of the Stress Response?....Pages 147-154
Passively Active – Actively Passive Mutual Anticipation in a Communicative Swarm....Pages 155-168
Contributions of the Operator Hierarchy to the Field of Biologically Driven Mathematics and Computation....Pages 169-180
Structure Formation in an Evolutionary Model System....Pages 181-189
Synthetic Intelligence: Beyond Artificial Intelligence and Robotics....Pages 191-193
Front Matter....Pages 195-204
A Digital Solution to the Mind/Body Problem....Pages 205-210
Front Matter....Pages 213-225
On Microscopic Irreversibility and Non-deterministic Chaos: Resolving the Conflict between Determinism and Free Will....Pages 205-210
Biological Observer-Participation and Wheeler’s ‘Law without Law’....Pages 227-243
On “Law without Law”....Pages 245-252
Comment on Brian D. Josephson’s “Biological Observer-Participation and Wheeler’s ‘Law without Law’ ”....Pages 253-258
The Action of Signs:....Pages 259-264
Time in Biology as a Marker of the Class Identity of Molecules....Pages 265-267
The Uncanny Position of ‘Now’ in Science....Pages 269-277
The Role of Information Integration in Demystification of Holistic Methodology....Pages 279-282
The Engine of Engines – Toward a Computational Ecology....Pages 283-296
Ten Autobiographical Stepping-stones towards a Comprehensive Theoretical Biology Comprising Physics....Pages 297-309
Front Matter....Pages 311-315
Stepping beyond the Newtonian Paradigm in Biology....Pages 317-317
Back Matter....Pages 319-417
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