Cell Language Theory, The: Connecting Mind And Matter

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b2861 The Cell Language Theory: Connecting Mind and Matter “6x9”

The Aristotelian Four Causes Doctrine was used to compare the atom

and the living cell in Table 3.9.

3.2.17 The Cell Force: A Comparison with the Gravitational Force

The concept of the cell force was introduced in 1991 and discussed in

some detail in [7, pp. 90–118], defining it as follows:

... the force that “hold” together heavy particles (e.g., biopolymers)

and light particles (e.g., small-molecular-weight chemicals) of the cell

together in the living state against environmental perturbations, just as

the strong force holds nucleons together in atomic nuclei against elec-

trostatic repulsions. (3.23)

Figure 3.22 The four causes doctrine of Aristotle [191].

Cause

Material

Efficient Formal

Final

Table 3.9 The Aristotelian causes of the atom and the living cell.

Causes Atom Cell

Material Quarks, leptons, bosons Quarks, leptons, boson

Formal Organized matter less than 10-^10 m

in diameter (relative volume = 1)

Organized matter ~ 10 -^5 m in diameter

(relative volume = 1015 )

Efficient Evolution of the Universe Biological evolution

Final Unknown (?) Self-reproduction (?)

self-knowledge (?)

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