The Biological Principle of Natural Sciences and the Logos of Life of Natural Philosophy: A Comparison and the Perspectives of Unifying the Science and Philosophy of Life

Grandpierre, Attila

doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1691-9_54

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“…This principle can effectively also be expressed as the condition where a system lives if and only if it autonomously invests work that enables it to maintain its existence, conditioned by the laws that govern it and its initial conditions (cf. [151]).…”

Section: Living Systems Far From Equilibrium and Metaphysical Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

Yolles

2022

Systems

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Living systems are complex dynamic information processing energy consuming entities with properties of consciousness, intelligence, sapience, and sentience. Sapience and sentience are autonomous attributes of consciousness. While sapience has been well studied over the years, that of sentience is relatively rare. The nature of sapience and sentience will be considered, and a metacybernetic framework using structural information will be adopted to explore the metaphysics of consciousness. Metacybernetics delivers a cyberintrinsic model that is cybernetic in nature, but also uses the theory of structural information arising from Frieden’s work with Fisher information. This will be used to model sapience and sentience and their relationship. Since living systems are energy-consuming entities, it is also natural for thermodynamic metaphysical models to arise, and most of the theoretical studies of sentience have been set within a thermodynamic framework. Hence, a thermodynamic approach will also be introduced and connected to cyberintrinsic theory. In metaphysical contexts, thermodynamics uses free-energy, which plays the same role in cyberintrinsic modelling as intrinsic structural information. Since living systems exist at the dynamical interface of information and thermodynamics, the overall purpose of this paper is to explore sentience from the alternative cyberintrinsic perspective of metacybernetics.

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Section: Living Systems Far From Equilibrium and Metaphysical Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

Yolles

2022

Systems

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“…At the very least, a growing number of papers indicate the timeliness of Bauer's work (e.g. Levich, 1993;Brauckmann, 2000;Alt, 2002;Reeben, 2008;Volkenstein, 2009;Grandpierre, 1988;2008a;2011a;2011b;2012b;2014;Grandpierre and Kafatos, 2012;Voeikov and Del Giudice, 2009;Elek and Müller, 2013).…”

Section: Bauer's Principlementioning

confidence: 99%

The Universal Principle of Biology: Determinism, Quantum Physics and Spontaneity

Grandpierre¹,

Chopra²,

Kafatos³

2014

Neuroquantology

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For the last four centuries, physics became the pre-eminent natural science. Now it is widely believed that biology will replace physics in prominence. However, systematic efforts to develop a science of theoretical biology on a par with modern theoretical physics in depth and explanatory power have failed. In this paper, we introduce the most promising effort to achieve a fundamental theory of biology, the framework of Ervin Bauer, which includes three requirements for life. The universal principle of biology, which is Bauer's principle, is introduced and presented in mathematical form. Because he was able to derive all fundamental life phenomena from this single principle, we propose that Bauer's principle is the first and foundational principle of biology. It can play a central role in biology similar to the one played in physics by the least action principle. We posit that this new picture will open the possibility to achieve an exact theoretical biology. Expanding the conceptual framework of theoretical physics in the most suitable way that is necessary and sufficient for an exact theoretical biology is a challenging task. We also clarify some significant conceptual difficulties of Bauer's requirements in the context of modern biology, and we fundamentally connect Bauer's theory to quantum physics. In conclusion, we strongly believe that the only version of modern theoretical biology capable of following in the footsteps of modern physics is Bauer's theory.

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The Biological Principle of Natural Sciences and the Logos of Life of Natural Philosophy: A Comparison and the Perspectives of Unifying the Science and Philosophy of Life

Cited by 2 publications

References 14 publications

Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

Consciousness, Sapience and Sentience—A Metacybernetic View

The Universal Principle of Biology: Determinism, Quantum Physics and Spontaneity

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