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Quantum Mechanics, Cell-Cell Signaling, and Evolution
- 1st Edition - September 9, 2022
- Author: John S. Torday
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 2 9 7 - 6
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 7 2 8 1 - 9
Quantum Mechanics, Cell-Cell Signaling, and Evolution offers a detailed accounting of the latest research and theorizing on the integration of quantum physics with biologica… Read more
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Request a sales quoteQuantum Mechanics, Cell-Cell Signaling, and Evolution offers a detailed accounting of the latest research and theorizing on the integration of quantum physics with biological action to produce a novel perspective on evolution. The book advocates for a paradigm shift towards understanding biology and medicine causally as predictive sciences, presenting quantum mechanics and physiology as vertically integrated. The author has taken a unique approach to the question of how and why evolution occurred. The account is based on extensive knowledge of lipid physical chemistry, and its role in the evolution of the lung under the influence of hormonal effects on structure and function.
The title arranges lipid biochemistry and biophysics into an integrated explanation, guiding readers from the immersion of lipids in water as the origin of life, to lung surfactant in alveolar homeostasis, and leading to a new understanding of how consciousness interacts with the laws of nature. This volume argues for a novel understanding of evolutionary processes based on fundamental science and positions itself as seeking consilience among research disciplines. Starting from the origins of the cosmos, the author proceeds through nucleosynthesis and Endosymbiosis Theory, to finally describe consciousness in relation to natural law.
- Offers a novel account of evolutionary mechanisms integrating quantum mechanics and cell-cell signaling
- Presents the latest research and theorizing on the integration of quantum physics with biological action
- Grounds theoretical insights in lipid physical chemistry and the evolution of the lung
- Details an integrated, causal account of evolution operating across physical and biological domains
- Argues for a paradigm shift in the way evolution is understood
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: The cell membrane as a functional Mobius strip
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The cell membrane as the prototype for the Mobius strip
- Micelles, semipermeable membranes, and calcium ion fluxes
- Calcium ions passing through the cell constitute the biologic flow of energy
- The evolution of multicellularity
- Epigenetic inheritance
- Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: Consciousness, the “missing link” between physics and physiology
- Abstract
- References
- Chapter 3: The unicell as the crucible for consciousness as Quantum Entanglement
- Abstract
- Introduction
- “Life is that Which Can Mix Oil and Water”—Robert Frost
- The vector formed by the Big Bang
- Observer-observed?
- Entanglement forms “knots”
- Cryptochrome, FAD, and magnetoreception
- Skepticism about Quantum Biology due to decoherence
- Discussion
- References
- Chapter 4: Cybernetics as a conversation with the Cosmos
- Abstract
- Acknowledgment
- Prelude
- Introduction
- The origin of life as our Cybernetic “dialog” with the Cosmos
- Big Bang
- Physiology as Ross Ashby’s Black Box of Cybernetics
- (Non)conscious or (sub)conscious Cybernetics
- On the Cybernetics of auto-engineering
- Discussion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Disambiguation, evolution, and the topology of consciousness
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The homology between evolution and knots
- Circles, knots, cells, and memory
- DNA knots, Homeobox genes, and cell-cell signaling
- Preadaptations, lipids immersed in water, and knots
- The deep significance of the homology between knots and evolution
- The metaphysics of knots
- Left-right brain as the resolution of Quantum Mechanics in biology: A hypothesis
- Discussion
- Reference
- Chapter 6: On the evolution of evolution
- Abstract
- References
- Chapter 7: The continuum from physics to cosmology
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The Big Bang of the Singularity gave rise to both the physical and biologic realms
- A feasible pathway for quantum evolutionary development through cell-cell interactions
- Mayr’s proximate and ultimate causes of evolution
- Comparing apples with apples
- Epigenetic inheritance infers the primacy of the unicellular state
- Pauli Exclusion Principle: Homolog for the First Principles of Physiology
- Nonlocality in physics and biology
- Coherence as Schrodinger wave collapse
- Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle facilitates biologic ambiguity
- Physiology as recursive fractals
- The narrative version of vertebrate evolution
- Consciousness as the aggregate of the inanimate to the animate
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8: Quantum Mechanics predicts evolution
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Quantum Mechanics and origins and causation in biologic evolution
- The predictive value of a Quantum Mechanical approach to evolution
- The unicell-multicell approach predicts the iterative evolution of niche construction: A holistic approach
- The forward-directed continuum of evolution predicts the foundational role of Quantum Mechanics
- Physiology as a homolog for quantum coherence?
- The cytoskeleton as the homolog for self-organization and consciousness
- Discussion
- References
- Chapter 9: Goldilocks effect as local paracrine control of homeostasis and endocrinology
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Micro- to macroevolution
- The phylogenetic history of the thyroid
- An evolutionary vertical integration of the phylogeny and ontogeny of the thyroid
- Wolff’s Law and bone remodeling
- Goodpasture’s syndrome
- Salinity and the vitamin D receptor
- References
- Chapter 10: The atom and cell are homologous point sources in a quantum world
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Biology and physics
- On the origin of complex physiology
- The evolution of visceral organs
- Mechano-transduction and evolutionary fundaments
- Biologic time as artifact
- In conclusion—The cell as the first niche construction
- References
- Chapter 11: The Vitruvian Cell
- Abstract
- Introduction
- da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man
- Math, geometry, biology, and metaphysics
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Homology between the cell and a crossword puzzle
- Chapter 12: Implicate and Explicate Orders as unconscious and conscious
- Abstract
- Introduction
- The Periodic Table of Elements and You
- The environment gave rise to endothermy
- The Periodic Table and Evolutionary Biology are diachronic vectors of the Big Bang
- Information Theory meets Informatics
- Truth be told
- There is only space, there is no time
- A novel prediction of Consciousness as the Singularity
- The vertical integration of gravity, chemistry, and biology as Consciousness
- Biology and chemistry as vectoral fractals of the Big Bang
- Terminal Addition and Phantom Limb as “Proof of Principle” for Physiology as our Implicate Order
- Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 13: The latticework of both the Cosmos and physiology
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Nucleosynthesis—First 36 Elements, all relevant to physiology with the exception of iodine, 53, which became adapted by the thyroid
- Evolutionary vertical integration of the phylogeny and ontogeny of the thyroid
- Symbiogenesis, Terminal Addition, and cell-cell signaling
- Gravity is necessary for life and forms the basis for the lattice
- Synchronicity as a product of latticework
- Phantom Limb, Terminal Addition, and latticework
- Quantum Mechanics and latticework: Quantum Chromodynamics theory
- Using the “reverse-evolution” approach to emergence led from Symbiogenesis to Quantum Entanglement/nonlocalization: But where did QM evolve from? Particle Physics, including QCD theory as the common lattice work of the Cosmos
- References
- Afterword
- Author Index
- Subject Index
- No. of pages: 178
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: September 9, 2022
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323912976
- eBook ISBN: 9780323972819
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John S. Torday
John S. Torday is Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Evolutionary Medicine, at the University of California- Los Angeles, USA. He has published over 200 papers on lung biology, and over the course of the last 20 years, more than 100 peer-reviewed articles regarding the evolution of physiology based on cellular-molecular principles of development and phylogeny, by exploiting cell-cell signalling as the underlying mechanism. In addition, he has authored or co-authored six books on this topic that are unique to the literature on biology, medicine, cell biology, developmental biology and pathophysiology. He has taken a unique approach to the question of how and why evolution has occurred based on extensive knowledge of lipid physical chemistry, having studied its role in lung evolution under the influence of hormonal effects on structure and function developmentally, physiologically and pathologically.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Evolutionary Medicine, University of California- Los Angeles, USARead Quantum Mechanics, Cell-Cell Signaling, and Evolution on ScienceDirect