Informational Structure of the Living Systems: From Philosophy to Informational Modeling

The Informational Model of the Human Body and Living Structures: from Micro to Macro Structuration and Functions

“…In the multicellular organisms [28], the external communication is accomplished by direct contact, junction gap (like in the nervous system) or by means of hormones, which support a long-range communication [27]. As it was shown earlier [22,28], the eukaryotic cells (particularly a cell of a plant) uses a tubular wire-type structure (believed till recently to only support passively the cell), able to transport moreover the external environmental information from membrane to the cell nucleus, involving for this ionic and charge free electron/proton gradients near membrane and transmembrane proteins [33], describable in terms of information theory [23,34].…”

“…(1), (I) can be defined as matter-related information, participating to further processes by the "disembodiment" mechanism, described by the revers realtion [1,22]. From the above discussion, we have to distinguish therefore two main forms of information: (A) manifested ("free", virtual, "working", "disembodied") form; (B) matter-related (intrinsic, "embodied") info-structuration form, which can be manifested by a destructuration ("disembodiment", releasing) process.…”

“…According to item (1), the maintenance of the cell existence is assured by the metabolic processes [27], providing both the cell energy and the primary components of structuration/restructuration of the cell, which mainly are the organic components. The energy supplier is the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) synthetized during the catabolic/metabolic processes, which is broken down into adenosine diphosphate (ADP) and inorganic phosphate, in cytoplasm and mitochondrion (in eukaryotic cell), an organelle working similarly with the lung in human and sub-human organisms on the basis of oxygen-assisted reactions [22,28] (Figure 1 left side). The concentration of ADP is determinant for a signal transmission (YES) concerning a lack of energetic material or NOT in the case when the concentration is sufficiently high.…”

“…The eukaryotic cells compose the major range of the living structures, from plants to animals and human, while the prokaryotic cells, as ones of the most rudimentary organisms, are typical for bacteria. The transcription process is actually an info-communication between the nucleous DNA and RNA messenger (mRNA), allowing together with some amino acids molecules from the externally foods (9 types) and/or fabricated by the organism itself (11 types in human) to prepare a suitable sort of (differentiated) proteins according to the local needs, with the informational contribution/communication of the transfer RNA (tRNA) from ribosomes/nucleolus components of the cell [22,28].…”

“…IC in Figure 1 is defined as the Info-Connection system, allowing the automatic selection of information according to the survival/inherited and acquired/"learned" requirements, which is manifested for instance in bacteria by the synchronized organization in colonies [22,28], at the migratory birds to recognize the flight trajectory at large distances, and for each particular species/cell to select from environment the specific signal and to decode/interpret its significance according to the inherited/acquired life experience/tasks and endowed informational tools.…”