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admits purpose. However, to introduce a general term for all phenomena that are
intrinsically incomplete in the sense of being arranged or ordered to accomplish
something non-intrinsic, Deacon in his excellent monograph [10] introduced the
generic attribute “ententional”.
In order to disentangle the dilemma of separating the world into a physical and
a mental part, we will introduce the concept of an open dissipative structure that
in effect corresponds to active transitions between germane states of biological significance. The ensuing spatio-temporal adaptation exhibits teleonomy, since their
autogenetic epithet is controlled by diverse factorizations of the apt transformation.
This allows transcended encodings [11, 12], a feature that will be expounded below.
To realize this agenda we will establish a basic statistical relationship between
the spatio-temporal neumatic structure (STN), [13], mentioned above, see Appendices A, B, and the infinitely divisible probability distribution a.k.a. the Poisson distribution. For a recent discussion and application of the latter in connection with
cell-radiation interactions in radiotherapy, see Advances in Quantum Chemistry,
volume 65 edited by Dz. Belkic [14]. Although the number of occurrences of an
event, within a unit of time, if characterized as Poissonian, lacks memory, i.e. is independent of previous occurrences, it will be demonstrated that the transformation
properties of STN systems carry encodable factorizations. Thus the intrinsic statistical property of the Poisson distribution gives way to something non-intrinsic with
ententional significance. This insight will provide realistic modelling of genetic and
epigenetic factors interlocking cell differentiation and cell communication, chaotic
neuron dynamics and bestow additional understanding of the general binding problem, a central issue in cognitive neuroscience. The energetics of the teleonomic
processes, to be considered here, recognizes the quantum statistical emergence and
self-organisational mode of quantum-thermal correlations, the latter yet in concert
with the second law. This undertaking will conclusively make possible the communicative aspects of evolution, as it will extend also to the socio-ecological and the
cosmological ranks.
4.2 Theoretical Basis and Background
In order to confront the challenges enunciated above, it is essential to incorporate
the examination of microscopic systems that exhibit irreversible behavior as well as
the associated time asymmetry of entropic increase. Thus one needs to consider the
following requirement: In what way could thermodynamics possibly emerge from
the abstract concept of statistical mechanics, where temporal asymmetry materializes from perfectly time symmetric microscopic dynamics. To remove unnecessary
detailed theoretical formulae and their derivations in the main text they have been
collected in Appendices A and B, see also Refs. [11–13, 15–25]. In these so-called
STN-structures it is particularly emphasized that the synergetic emergence of the
quantum- and the thermally activated correlations operates as a constructive driving
force in far from equilibrium situations. Note that the present quantum-classical fusion, reminiscent of the notion of quantum discord, a recent hot topic in quantum
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admits purpose. However, to introduce a general term for all phenomena that are
intrinsically incomplete in the sense of being arranged or ordered to accomplish
something non-intrinsic, Deacon in his excellent monograph [10] introduced the
generic attribute “ententional”.
In order to disentangle the dilemma of separating the world into a physical and
a mental part, we will introduce the concept of an open dissipative structure that
in effect corresponds to active transitions between germane states of biological significance. The ensuing spatio-temporal adaptation exhibits teleonomy, since their
autogenetic epithet is controlled by diverse factorizations of the apt transformation.
This allows transcended encodings [11, 12], a feature that will be expounded below.
To realize this agenda we will establish a basic statistical relationship between
the spatio-temporal neumatic structure (STN), [13], mentioned above, see Appendices A, B, and the infinitely divisible probability distribution a.k.a. the Poisson distribution. For a recent discussion and application of the latter in connection with
cell-radiation interactions in radiotherapy, see Advances in Quantum Chemistry,
volume 65 edited by Dz. Belkic [14]. Although the number of occurrences of an
event, within a unit of time, if characterized as Poissonian, lacks memory, i.e. is independent of previous occurrences, it will be demonstrated that the transformation
properties of STN systems carry encodable factorizations. Thus the intrinsic statistical property of the Poisson distribution gives way to something non-intrinsic with
ententional significance. This insight will provide realistic modelling of genetic and
epigenetic factors interlocking cell differentiation and cell communication, chaotic
neuron dynamics and bestow additional understanding of the general binding problem, a central issue in cognitive neuroscience. The energetics of the teleonomic
processes, to be considered here, recognizes the quantum statistical emergence and
self-organisational mode of quantum-thermal correlations, the latter yet in concert
with the second law. This undertaking will conclusively make possible the communicative aspects of evolution, as it will extend also to the socio-ecological and the
cosmological ranks.
4.2 Theoretical Basis and Background
In order to confront the challenges enunciated above, it is essential to incorporate
the examination of microscopic systems that exhibit irreversible behavior as well as
the associated time asymmetry of entropic increase. Thus one needs to consider the
following requirement: In what way could thermodynamics possibly emerge from
the abstract concept of statistical mechanics, where temporal asymmetry materializes from perfectly time symmetric microscopic dynamics. To remove unnecessary
detailed theoretical formulae and their derivations in the main text they have been
collected in Appendices A and B, see also Refs. [11–13, 15–25]. In these so-called
STN-structures it is particularly emphasized that the synergetic emergence of the
quantum- and the thermally activated correlations operates as a constructive driving
force in far from equilibrium situations. Note that the present quantum-classical fusion, reminiscent of the notion of quantum discord, a recent hot topic in quantum