One of the stumbling blocks in unifying Physical Evolution with Biological Evolution is the fact that central to Biological Evolution is the Evolution of Emotions and Intelligent Behavior. Central to Emotions and Intelligent Behavior is Consciousness. Central to Consciousness is Awareness. Awareness is of three kinds. Self Awareness, Mutual Awareness amongst Species and Environmental Awareness as far down the scale as microorganisms, living cells and its constituents including DNA and RNA molecules.
Quantification and the application of Mathematics are at the root of all explanations in Physics. Biological phenomena are also becoming amenable to quantification but not at the level of Emotions and Intelligent Behavior.
With these thoughts in mind, I venture to suggest that the Unification of Physics and Biology requires that Emotion and Intelligent Behavior are also understood as quantifiable phenomena in digital terms and Physics itself needs to be revised in tune with the ideas of Von Neumann and Stephen Wolfram in his provocative book A NEW KIND OF SCIENCE
CONSCIOUSNESS AND SPIRITUALISM : Irrespective of the size, shape, and external or morphological appearance, Consciousness is the fundamental biological characteristic of a living thing. It has a set of defining features; 1. It is the Principle by which a living thing knows the fact of its own existence; and 2. It knows as to where it exists and knows as to how it is existing. Consciousness is a Spiritual function as it establishes a relationship between the energy-demanding living thing and its energy-yielding provider. In a complex, multicellular living thing called human being, Spiritualism could be stated as the internal potency of the subject called "I", who is associated with a biological property called Consciousness, maintains the condition called existence to support the subject to identify itself as "I AM." Consciousness is a principle that operates on the basis of Dualism; the separation of a living entity from the environment in which it exists. There is no living function without this separation of energy-demanding molecules, and energy-yielding molecules. The issue is not that of Unification of Physics and Biology. The issue is that of understanding fundamental Dualism; the separation of living and non-living matter.
ReplyDeleteThank you for your comment. Your posts on Bhavanajagat are highly original and thought provoking. I agree with most of your ideas up to a point. That is because if you go deeper and deeper into the subject, most advanced physicists are aware that the distinction between the living and the non-living is arbitrary based on the the works of Gordon Globus, John Bell's Non Locality Theorem, the Aspect experiment etc. etc. Even electrons and photons have been identified to exhibit a rudimental form of awareness in certain carefully designed experiemnts.
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