Physical Analogies in Biology: From Photons, Phonons, Bloch Waves to Non Linear Oscillators
https://www.academia.edu/11033926/Physical_Analogies_in_Biology_From_Photons_Phonons_Bloch_Waves_to_Non_Linear_Oscillators
"The existence of physical analogies in biology is more evident nowadays than it had been in the past. Efforts of physicists trying to understand biological systems are increasing rapidly. For instance, the field of photonics can explain the color of many insects. Here we discuss several interesting physical concepts that could help us better understand many biological systems ranging from microtubules, muscles, dendrites and human perception."
The article "Physical Analogies in Biology: From Photons, Phonons, Bloch Waves to Non-Linear Oscillators" examines the intricate connections between physical and biological systems by leveraging precise analogies rooted in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and nonlinear dynamics. It begins by exploring the role of photons in mediating energy transfer in both photosynthetic complexes and quantum coherent processes within biological systems. The author discusses how phonons, which are quantized lattice vibrations in crystals, serve as an analogy for mechanical vibrations and waves observed in protein structures, influencing conformational changes and enzymatic activity.
The article further delves into the concept of Bloch waves, typically associated with the propagation of electrons in periodic potentials, and draws parallels to wave-like behaviors in biological macromolecules, particularly in the context of DNA's helical structure. This analogy is extended to describe solitonic excitations that may travel along the DNA, facilitating energy transport and signal transmission without dispersion.
Moreover, the paper addresses the significance of non-linear oscillators in biology, particularly in the context of circadian rhythms and cardiac dynamics. The author highlights how biological systems often exhibit non-linear behaviors, such as synchronization and chaos, which are better understood through the lens of non-linear dynamics. The discussion includes mathematical modeling of these oscillatory systems and emphasizes the importance of considering non-linear interactions when analyzing biological rhythms and their stability.
#biophoton #lightbody #electrobiology
https://www.academia.edu/11033926/Physical_Analogies_in_Biology_From_Photons_Phonons_Bloch_Waves_to_Non_Linear_Oscillators
"The existence of physical analogies in biology is more evident nowadays than it had been in the past. Efforts of physicists trying to understand biological systems are increasing rapidly. For instance, the field of photonics can explain the color of many insects. Here we discuss several interesting physical concepts that could help us better understand many biological systems ranging from microtubules, muscles, dendrites and human perception."
The article "Physical Analogies in Biology: From Photons, Phonons, Bloch Waves to Non-Linear Oscillators" examines the intricate connections between physical and biological systems by leveraging precise analogies rooted in quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, and nonlinear dynamics. It begins by exploring the role of photons in mediating energy transfer in both photosynthetic complexes and quantum coherent processes within biological systems. The author discusses how phonons, which are quantized lattice vibrations in crystals, serve as an analogy for mechanical vibrations and waves observed in protein structures, influencing conformational changes and enzymatic activity.
The article further delves into the concept of Bloch waves, typically associated with the propagation of electrons in periodic potentials, and draws parallels to wave-like behaviors in biological macromolecules, particularly in the context of DNA's helical structure. This analogy is extended to describe solitonic excitations that may travel along the DNA, facilitating energy transport and signal transmission without dispersion.
Moreover, the paper addresses the significance of non-linear oscillators in biology, particularly in the context of circadian rhythms and cardiac dynamics. The author highlights how biological systems often exhibit non-linear behaviors, such as synchronization and chaos, which are better understood through the lens of non-linear dynamics. The discussion includes mathematical modeling of these oscillatory systems and emphasizes the importance of considering non-linear interactions when analyzing biological rhythms and their stability.
#biophoton #lightbody #electrobiology
Rudolf Steiner and the Dream of External Matter: An Esoteric Physiosophy of the Senses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHKJBXpxPHw
This video serves as an addendum to Matthew Segall's previous talk for the MysTech 2024 conference entitled "Etheric Imagination as Participatory Knowing: A Process Philosophical Reading of Rudolf Steiner's Light Course"
Segall reflects on a talk given at the Mysteries of Technology conference, focusing on some ideas that couldn’t be covered during the presentation. He explores the connection between William James and Rudolf Steiner, particularly how Steiner may have misinterpreted James' pragmatism. Segall highlights the surprising alignment between James' view of consciousness as a lived process and Steiner's ideas about spiritual science. Steiner's thoughts on how our sensory organs—like eyes, ears, and lungs—connect us to different elements and work together as a unified system are discussed in detail. Segall also critiques the materialistic approach of modern science, advocating for a more imaginative and spiritually aware perspective that can bridge the gap between physical phenomena and deeper spiritual truths. The discussion touches on quantum physics, emphasizing the need for science to embrace a more holistic understanding of nature. He concludes by stressing the importance of recognizing the spiritual underpinnings of the physical world, using the Christ event as an example of how science and spirituality can be integrated. The message is clear: to truly understand the world, we must look beyond mere matter and embrace the spirit that animates it.
#steiner #goethe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHKJBXpxPHw
This video serves as an addendum to Matthew Segall's previous talk for the MysTech 2024 conference entitled "Etheric Imagination as Participatory Knowing: A Process Philosophical Reading of Rudolf Steiner's Light Course"
Segall reflects on a talk given at the Mysteries of Technology conference, focusing on some ideas that couldn’t be covered during the presentation. He explores the connection between William James and Rudolf Steiner, particularly how Steiner may have misinterpreted James' pragmatism. Segall highlights the surprising alignment between James' view of consciousness as a lived process and Steiner's ideas about spiritual science. Steiner's thoughts on how our sensory organs—like eyes, ears, and lungs—connect us to different elements and work together as a unified system are discussed in detail. Segall also critiques the materialistic approach of modern science, advocating for a more imaginative and spiritually aware perspective that can bridge the gap between physical phenomena and deeper spiritual truths. The discussion touches on quantum physics, emphasizing the need for science to embrace a more holistic understanding of nature. He concludes by stressing the importance of recognizing the spiritual underpinnings of the physical world, using the Christ event as an example of how science and spirituality can be integrated. The message is clear: to truly understand the world, we must look beyond mere matter and embrace the spirit that animates it.
#steiner #goethe
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Rudolf Steiner and the Dream of External Matter: An Esoteric Physiosophy of the Senses
an addendum to this talk: "Etheric Imagination as Participatory Knowing: A Process Philosophical Reading of Rudolf Steiner's 'Light Course'": https://youtu.be/r7i72EJBk6Y?si=MBiNRGZxz8zLDowO
Alfred North Whitehead: Continuous Fields or Discrete Particles?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml2ZN4cFK0k
"Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician (best known among scientists for his work with his student Bertrand Russell on the Principia Mathematica). But in philosophy and theology, Whitehead is best known as a philosopher whose later work at Harvard included his Process Philosophy and the subsequent development of a Process Theology.
At Harvard, Whitehead supervised Willard van Orman Quine‘s Ph.D. thesis on the Russell and Whitehead Principia Mathematica. Russell and Quine would become giants in the twentieth-century fields of logical positivism and logical empiricism. Although logical positivism and later analytic language philosophy overwhelmed Whiteheadian “process” thinking in philosophy departments, Whitehead’s “process theology” has grown strong in divinity schools around the world. And “Whiteheadian” physicists. impressed by Whitehead’s analysis of events in space and time in special relativity as organic “occasions.” are prominent in debates about the role of quantum mechanics in consciousness and panpsychism.
Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism” analyzes the perception of experience as a continuing series of discrete “events” that are created and destroyed. He goes beyond the simple materialist view of elementary particles interacting in space and time, merely following the laws of classical and quantum mechanics. Beyond the atomic particles and the electromagnetic and gravitational fields, and beyond the conservation laws for energy and momentum, Whitehead sees an “organic” evolutionary process of creation and valuation.
We need to understand what it is exactly that Whitehead thinks is being created and why it can serve as a basis for values. We will argue that Whitehead’s process is “organic” because it explains evolution, not merely biological evolution but the cosmic evolution of the galaxies, stars, and planets as well as the creation of all matter from the primordial elementary particles.
In addition to his deep understanding of mathematics, Whitehead may have understood the development of modern physics better than any living philosopher in his day. He saw the greatest invention of the nineteenth century as the invention of the method of invention, namely the scientific method and newly created scientific information, but even more deeply, the means by which novel ideas of all kinds are created.
Whitehead identified four great novel ideas as the new nineteenth-century foundations of physical science, fields, particles, conservation principles, and evolution. The great question for Whitehead as a mathematician (and for Einstein as a physicist) was “Is nature continuous or discrete, fields or particles, infinities or a finite number of objects?”
Whitehead wrote in his great book Science and the Modern World,
One of the ideas is that of a field of physical activity pervading all space, even where there is an apparent vacuum. This notion had occurred to many people, under many forms. We remember the medieval axiom, nature abhors a vacuum…Thus in the seventies of the last century, some main physical sciences were established on a basis which presupposed the idea of continuity.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml2ZN4cFK0k
"Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician (best known among scientists for his work with his student Bertrand Russell on the Principia Mathematica). But in philosophy and theology, Whitehead is best known as a philosopher whose later work at Harvard included his Process Philosophy and the subsequent development of a Process Theology.
At Harvard, Whitehead supervised Willard van Orman Quine‘s Ph.D. thesis on the Russell and Whitehead Principia Mathematica. Russell and Quine would become giants in the twentieth-century fields of logical positivism and logical empiricism. Although logical positivism and later analytic language philosophy overwhelmed Whiteheadian “process” thinking in philosophy departments, Whitehead’s “process theology” has grown strong in divinity schools around the world. And “Whiteheadian” physicists. impressed by Whitehead’s analysis of events in space and time in special relativity as organic “occasions.” are prominent in debates about the role of quantum mechanics in consciousness and panpsychism.
Whitehead’s “philosophy of organism” analyzes the perception of experience as a continuing series of discrete “events” that are created and destroyed. He goes beyond the simple materialist view of elementary particles interacting in space and time, merely following the laws of classical and quantum mechanics. Beyond the atomic particles and the electromagnetic and gravitational fields, and beyond the conservation laws for energy and momentum, Whitehead sees an “organic” evolutionary process of creation and valuation.
We need to understand what it is exactly that Whitehead thinks is being created and why it can serve as a basis for values. We will argue that Whitehead’s process is “organic” because it explains evolution, not merely biological evolution but the cosmic evolution of the galaxies, stars, and planets as well as the creation of all matter from the primordial elementary particles.
In addition to his deep understanding of mathematics, Whitehead may have understood the development of modern physics better than any living philosopher in his day. He saw the greatest invention of the nineteenth century as the invention of the method of invention, namely the scientific method and newly created scientific information, but even more deeply, the means by which novel ideas of all kinds are created.
Whitehead identified four great novel ideas as the new nineteenth-century foundations of physical science, fields, particles, conservation principles, and evolution. The great question for Whitehead as a mathematician (and for Einstein as a physicist) was “Is nature continuous or discrete, fields or particles, infinities or a finite number of objects?”
Whitehead wrote in his great book Science and the Modern World,
One of the ideas is that of a field of physical activity pervading all space, even where there is an apparent vacuum. This notion had occurred to many people, under many forms. We remember the medieval axiom, nature abhors a vacuum…Thus in the seventies of the last century, some main physical sciences were established on a basis which presupposed the idea of continuity.
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On the other hand, the idea of atomicity had been introduced by John Dalton, to complete Lavoisier’s work on the foundation of chemistry. This is the second great notion. Ordinary matter was conceived as atomic: electromagnetic effects were conceived as arising from a continuous field…The notion of matter as atomic has a long history. Democritus and Lucretius will at once occur to your minds. In speaking of these ideas as novel, I merely mean relatively novel,..In the eighteenth century every well-educated man read Lucretius, and entertained ideas about atoms. But John Dalton made them efficient in the stream of science; and in this function of efficiency atomicity was a new idea. The influence of atomicity was not limited to chemistry. The living cell is to biology what the electron and the proton are to physics.
The remaining pair of new ideas to be ascribed to this epoch are both of them connected with the notion of transition or change. They are the doctrine of the conservation of energy, and the doctrine of evolution.
The doctrine of energy has to do with the notion of quantitative permanence underlying change. The doctrine of evolution has to do with the emergence of novel organisms as the outcome of chance. The theory of energy lies in the province of physics. The theory of evolution lies mainly in the province of biology, although it had previously been touched upon by Kant and Laplace in connection with the formation of suns and planets.
(Science and the Modern World, Chapter VI, “The Nineteenth Century, p.98-100)"
#whitehead #processontology
The remaining pair of new ideas to be ascribed to this epoch are both of them connected with the notion of transition or change. They are the doctrine of the conservation of energy, and the doctrine of evolution.
The doctrine of energy has to do with the notion of quantitative permanence underlying change. The doctrine of evolution has to do with the emergence of novel organisms as the outcome of chance. The theory of energy lies in the province of physics. The theory of evolution lies mainly in the province of biology, although it had previously been touched upon by Kant and Laplace in connection with the formation of suns and planets.
(Science and the Modern World, Chapter VI, “The Nineteenth Century, p.98-100)"
#whitehead #processontology
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Alfred North Whitehead: Continuous Fields or Discrete Particles?
Alfred North Whitehead was an English mathematician (best known among scientists for his work with his student Bertrand Russell on the Principia Mathematica). But in philosophy and theology, Whitehead is best known as a philosopher whose later work at Harvard…
Michael Clarage: The Light of Life | Thunderbolts
"Life emits light. There is even proof our eyes emit light. To a physicist this is possible since all receivers are also transmitters—a radio antenna can send or receive the same signal. The rhodopsin molecules in the retinal cells absorb and emit the same visible light.
Michael Clarage, PhD, Astrophysicist and Lead Scientist of SAFIRE, explains how we could not have organic life without cells, chemicals, light, electricity, or the ecosystems of the Earth and Sun—all levels of the hierarchy communicate and exchange energy."
In this short discussion, Clarage begins with an experiment with onion roots which showed that living cells emit light that can influence other cells, with this effect blocked by ultraviolet barriers. All living systems, including human eyes, emit light across a spectrum from ultraviolet to radio waves, varying in intensity and wavelength. Light emissions correlate with biological processes, such as seeds emitting green light during germination or the human brain producing more photons when imagining light. Blood with a higher immune response emits more light, indicating potential for diagnostic use.
Biophotons travel through microtubules within cells, with neurons acting as waveguides, linking light and electricity in biological functions. An experiment involving shared oscillating magnetic fields showed that one person’s light exposure increased biophoton emissions in another person, even when separated. In another experiment, DNA information was transmitted through water using radio frequencies resonating with the Earth's Schumann resonances, leading to the reconstruction of DNA strands. This suggests a deep connection between DNA, the Earth's electromagnetic field, and the broader cosmic system.
#plasmacosmology #electrobiology #light #electricuniverse
"Life emits light. There is even proof our eyes emit light. To a physicist this is possible since all receivers are also transmitters—a radio antenna can send or receive the same signal. The rhodopsin molecules in the retinal cells absorb and emit the same visible light.
Michael Clarage, PhD, Astrophysicist and Lead Scientist of SAFIRE, explains how we could not have organic life without cells, chemicals, light, electricity, or the ecosystems of the Earth and Sun—all levels of the hierarchy communicate and exchange energy."
In this short discussion, Clarage begins with an experiment with onion roots which showed that living cells emit light that can influence other cells, with this effect blocked by ultraviolet barriers. All living systems, including human eyes, emit light across a spectrum from ultraviolet to radio waves, varying in intensity and wavelength. Light emissions correlate with biological processes, such as seeds emitting green light during germination or the human brain producing more photons when imagining light. Blood with a higher immune response emits more light, indicating potential for diagnostic use.
Biophotons travel through microtubules within cells, with neurons acting as waveguides, linking light and electricity in biological functions. An experiment involving shared oscillating magnetic fields showed that one person’s light exposure increased biophoton emissions in another person, even when separated. In another experiment, DNA information was transmitted through water using radio frequencies resonating with the Earth's Schumann resonances, leading to the reconstruction of DNA strands. This suggests a deep connection between DNA, the Earth's electromagnetic field, and the broader cosmic system.
#plasmacosmology #electrobiology #light #electricuniverse
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Renewal of Science Conference
October 31st - November 2nd, 2024 - Mountain View, CA
https://www.renewalofculture.org/renewalofscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0GJdmqFH0
This conference will renew the foundations of science - physics, chemistry, biology, technology and AI - with new ideas drawn from international researchers from Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and the US. You can engage with several rooms of live exhibits, and take part in discussions with the speakers and attendees.
Ideal for College students, Teachers, Professors, Computing and Tech industries, Environmentalists, Artists and anyone who has an interest in revamping the foundations of science for long term solutions to the problems facing us today.
In terms of conference content, this seems most aligned with the values and principles of Aether Force.
Offered Lectures
- Seeing Color through New Eyes - Matthias Rang
- Evolving Ideas in Evolution - Christoph Hueck and Mark Riegner
- Complementary Chemistry - Hasok Chang
- Organic Forms through Sound - Gabriel Kelemen
- AI & the Moral Compass - Gary Lamb
- Transforming Temperature - Gopi Vijaya
- Heart and Circulation - Branko Furst
The speakers will also engage collectively the topics of "Electromagnetism Revised" and "Astronomical Arguments"
#goethe #steiner
October 31st - November 2nd, 2024 - Mountain View, CA
https://www.renewalofculture.org/renewalofscience
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk0GJdmqFH0
This conference will renew the foundations of science - physics, chemistry, biology, technology and AI - with new ideas drawn from international researchers from Germany, Switzerland, Australia, and the US. You can engage with several rooms of live exhibits, and take part in discussions with the speakers and attendees.
Ideal for College students, Teachers, Professors, Computing and Tech industries, Environmentalists, Artists and anyone who has an interest in revamping the foundations of science for long term solutions to the problems facing us today.
In terms of conference content, this seems most aligned with the values and principles of Aether Force.
Offered Lectures
- Seeing Color through New Eyes - Matthias Rang
- Evolving Ideas in Evolution - Christoph Hueck and Mark Riegner
- Complementary Chemistry - Hasok Chang
- Organic Forms through Sound - Gabriel Kelemen
- AI & the Moral Compass - Gary Lamb
- Transforming Temperature - Gopi Vijaya
- Heart and Circulation - Branko Furst
The speakers will also engage collectively the topics of "Electromagnetism Revised" and "Astronomical Arguments"
#goethe #steiner
Renewal of Culture
Renewal of Science | Renewal of Culture
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