Abiogenesis and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
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The dimension n, see Eq. (4.6), of the irreducible representation of the thermalized
density matrix, suggests a unique identification of the molecular system, to be used
in the build-up of a particular cell or fragment of an organ.
59 The properties of
B and B
−1
= B
† demonstrate fundamental symmetries including a factorization
quality of the former uniquely dependent on the number n of active nuclear centers
with | h =| f B while correlated by the associated dual paired fermionic degrees of
freedom. The prime numbers of the factorization remind of the Gödel numbering of
mathematical logic indicating a teleonomic trait to evolution. The intimate relation
with the stochastic Poisson distribution derives accordingly, see the next section.
7 Consciousness and Quantum Theory
The fundamental aspects of “all there is” contains in addition to the mystery of life,
i.e. the theme of this article, the conundrum of consciousness and the contradictions
related to the running of the universe. It is often construed that life, consciousness
and cosmos are knowingly facing different kind of challenges. We will devote the
final sections to these subjects in order to demonstrate that they actually are strongly
linked together.
The “premise of the mind is the brain” is a statement indicating that mental states
are the same as the physical ones of the brain.
60 Hence every physical brain state
determines every subsequent physical state, all within the frame of the second law.
This is essentially the Rosenberg dictum of physicalism implying “the physical facts
fix all the facts” [87, 88]. However, as we have seen mental- and physical states are
not encoded in this standard way rather they occupy a self-assembling cumulative
spatio-temporal CDS structure that is based on sequences of transitions. To pick
up where we left off in the last section we will add to the previous definition of
life: the possible evolution of higher meta-levels, above the genetic code, for linking
diverse levels of organization, e.g. between genotypic and phenotypic processes,
and possibly to link our knowledge towards an understanding of consciousness and
Natural Intelligence [89].
The tangible level of explanation, i.e. suggesting the neural basis of consciousness, detailing an attentional mechanism, was presented by Crick and Koch [90] in
their monumental paper of 1990. In this article the authors formulate their thesis:
It seems probable, however, that any one moment some active neuronal processes
correlate with consciousness. This hypothesis is framed today under the name of
Neural Correlates of Consciousness, NCC, see Ref. [91] for a recent update, and the
59 Note that we have left the original coherent wavefunction in (6.5) for the statistical derivation [77]
that provides the necessary link with an original ensemble representative density matrix technically
derivable through an appropriate sub-dynamics.
60 The stringent philosopher, Rosenberg [87], views biological issues within the same epistemological framework as the philosophy of physics, primarily based on the second law. It is of course
beyond this summary to render a fair and ample account of the detailed ingredients that goes into
such a stance.
421
The dimension n, see Eq. (4.6), of the irreducible representation of the thermalized
density matrix, suggests a unique identification of the molecular system, to be used
in the build-up of a particular cell or fragment of an organ.
59 The properties of
B and B
−1
= B
† demonstrate fundamental symmetries including a factorization
quality of the former uniquely dependent on the number n of active nuclear centers
with | h =| f B while correlated by the associated dual paired fermionic degrees of
freedom. The prime numbers of the factorization remind of the Gödel numbering of
mathematical logic indicating a teleonomic trait to evolution. The intimate relation
with the stochastic Poisson distribution derives accordingly, see the next section.
7 Consciousness and Quantum Theory
The fundamental aspects of “all there is” contains in addition to the mystery of life,
i.e. the theme of this article, the conundrum of consciousness and the contradictions
related to the running of the universe. It is often construed that life, consciousness
and cosmos are knowingly facing different kind of challenges. We will devote the
final sections to these subjects in order to demonstrate that they actually are strongly
linked together.
The “premise of the mind is the brain” is a statement indicating that mental states
are the same as the physical ones of the brain.
60 Hence every physical brain state
determines every subsequent physical state, all within the frame of the second law.
This is essentially the Rosenberg dictum of physicalism implying “the physical facts
fix all the facts” [87, 88]. However, as we have seen mental- and physical states are
not encoded in this standard way rather they occupy a self-assembling cumulative
spatio-temporal CDS structure that is based on sequences of transitions. To pick
up where we left off in the last section we will add to the previous definition of
life: the possible evolution of higher meta-levels, above the genetic code, for linking
diverse levels of organization, e.g. between genotypic and phenotypic processes,
and possibly to link our knowledge towards an understanding of consciousness and
Natural Intelligence [89].
The tangible level of explanation, i.e. suggesting the neural basis of consciousness, detailing an attentional mechanism, was presented by Crick and Koch [90] in
their monumental paper of 1990. In this article the authors formulate their thesis:
It seems probable, however, that any one moment some active neuronal processes
correlate with consciousness. This hypothesis is framed today under the name of
Neural Correlates of Consciousness, NCC, see Ref. [91] for a recent update, and the
59 Note that we have left the original coherent wavefunction in (6.5) for the statistical derivation [77]
that provides the necessary link with an original ensemble representative density matrix technically
derivable through an appropriate sub-dynamics.
60 The stringent philosopher, Rosenberg [87], views biological issues within the same epistemological framework as the philosophy of physics, primarily based on the second law. It is of course
beyond this summary to render a fair and ample account of the detailed ingredients that goes into
such a stance.