Epigenetic Information-Body Interaction and Information-Assisted Evolution from the Perspective of the Informational Model of Consciousness

Abstract

this paper it is presented first of all an analysis of the epigenetic processes and the typical steps of such mechanisms. In a second section there are presented the results concerning the information-

What Is Life: An Informational Model of the Living Structures

“…The aggregation of small molecules to form proteins and the change of their configuration to folded 3D proteins is also a process with gain of information and loss of entropy [6]. Epigenetic processes not only represents the pathway patented by nature to absorb information from environment and to integrate it into the living structure [25], but also are an efficient and proactive way to lower their entropy and gain in organization/information on the evolutionary scale [26].…”

“…The epigenetic circuit represented in the left side of Figure 1 is dedicated to the integration of information for long-term adaptation, inter-generationally transmitted at human [25]. However, because this is actually an intimate cellular mechanism [13], it is evident that such a mechanism is also operational in primitive living structures, explaining the evolutionary process by gradual adaptation to the change of the environmental conditions.…”

Information-Matter Bipolarity of the Human Organism and Its Fundamental Circuits: From Philosophy to Physics/Neurosciences-Based Modeling

“…Besides the electrical/chemical form of info-transmission by means of the nervous cells, a deeper form of the mater-related transmission of information was recently referred as epigenetic processes (Gaiseanu, 2019i). The received information from the environment, perceived as a long-term stressing information, repetitively operated/processed by ISHB, can be integrated and transmitted to the next generation, without affecting the genetic system of the cells, allowing in this way the long-term adaptation and species survival by the incorporation of the new acquired information as a form of the adaptation to the environmental changing conditions.…”

Info-Relational Cognitive Operability of the Posterior Cingulate Cortex According to the Informational Model of Consciousness

“…A subsequent superior step is referred to a process of info-integration, which involves additional brain structures like cerebellum, where are stored the acquired new information as automatically manifested abilities, typical for MIS system. The chain of the epigenetic reactions integrates finally the acquired information managed by GTS under epigenetic form, ready to be transmitted by IGG to the next offspring [7]. The info-integration is therefore a progressive process starting from the reception by the external sensors connected to CASI and processed by CDC, following an internal processing pathway of reactions in various specific areas of brain via IES and MIS to GTS, which transfers to IGG the new acquired information.…”

“…On the other hand, the advances on the theoretical concepts involved in this field, particularly the concept of information, are adding a special, particular key value for the understanding of the brain functions and operability [5]. That is because, although when the brain and its functions are discussed, it is generally admitted that information is the fundamental means of the brain operability, no deep meaning of this concept is taken into account, neither at the molecular level (assuring the internal connectivity [7]), nor at the macro level structure [8]. On the philosophic/informational line concerning the information role discussed earlier for non-living and living systems [9,10], later continued, developed and applied for the analysis and modeling of consciousness and of the informational system of the human body [5], it has been opened new perspectives to understand consciousness and the informational operability modes of the brain [11].…”