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which is synonymous with Statement (3.28).

One corollary of Triadic Analogy between the Human body and the

Internet (TAHI) may be that

Just as the health of individual human bodies critically depends on the

food inputted into them, so the health of the global human society of

the future may critically depend on the ideas inputted into the Internet,

although ideas are primarily INFORMATIONAL while foods contain

both INFORMATION and ENERGY, i.e., GNERGY (see Section 2.9).

(3.30)

3.3 The Mitochondrion — The Energy Source of

the Living Cell

For cells to communicate, they need energy and information, because,

according to the gnergy principle of organization (Section 2.9), any organ-

ized processes, of which communication is an example, two elements are

essential: (i) the energy to drive organizing processes and (ii) the informa-

tion to guide the organizing possesses.

The mitochondrion is the main source of the energy that cells need to

carry out their functions. Thus, it is necessary to understand how the mito-

chondrion works before we can understand how cells work and commu-

nicate. The mitochondrion is a double-membrane system (Figure 3.27)

that carries out a set of important functions inside the matrix space (Table

3.13 and Figure 3.28).

To account for the various functions of mitochondria listed in

Table 3.12, D. E. Green and I proposed in 1972 [143–145] a molecular

model of the mitochondrial structure and function based on the principle

of EMC energy transduction, which in essence states that mitochondrial

functions implicate interconverting three forms of energy — electrical,

chemical, and mechanical (see Section 3.2.3). The EMC model of mito-

chondrial structure and function is reproduced in Figure 3.29 and will be

discussed in detail in Section 3.3.1. Oxidative phosphorylation (or oxphos

for brevity) refers to the coupling between the oxidation reaction of, say,

NADH, and the phosphorylation of ADP to form ATP as briefly

summarized in Table 3.13.

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