Metabolic Field (Schrodinger); an explanatory platform for biology: Based on lecture at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, July 18, 2012

Metabolism represents the nexus of fundamental physical forces, which while present in all structure and function require new explanatory emergent principles, which, so far, cannot be predicted or derived solely from description of chemistry and physics. Metabolism is essentially concerned with the...

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Published inMedical hypotheses Vol. 85; no. 6; pp. 894 - 897
Main Author Bortz, 2nd, Walter M
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.12.2015
Subjects
Aging
Animals
Humans
Ireland
Language
Metabolism - physiology
Models, Biological
Oxygen - metabolism
Systems Biology - methods
Thermodynamics
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Summary:Metabolism represents the nexus of fundamental physical forces, which while present in all structure and function require new explanatory emergent principles, which, so far, cannot be predicted or derived solely from description of chemistry and physics. Metabolism is essentially concerned with the transduction of energy flows with respect to time, space, and matter. Language models and metaphors contribute to construction of scientific explanation within biology. The concept of a metabolic field yields a deeper, broader, more quantitative integrated theoretical framework leading to novel predictive models of systems biology.
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ISSN:1532-2777
DOI:10.1016/j.mehy.2015.09.014