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while, in the latter, they are not only generated and interpreted within

individual communicators (about 70% of the time, according to some

linguists), but also transferred from one communicator to another (~30%

of the time according to linguists).

Self-Organizing Whenever And Wherever Needed (SOWAWN)

Machine represent an important class of dissipative structures or dissi-

pations. There are many example of SOWAWN machines inside living

cells (e.g., glycolytic enzymes assemble for glycolysis and disassemble

when all glucose is meta bolized) [69] as well as outside cells (e.g., blood

coagulation cascade). SOWAWN machines are synonymous with hyper-

structures of Norris et al. [69].

2.7 The Generalized Franck–Condon Principle

The Franck–Condon principle (FCP), well known in the chemical kinetics

literature [70], was extended to enzyme catalysis in 1974 [12] and was

named the Principle of Slow and Fast Processes (PSFP) [7, pp. 52–56],

which states that

Whenever an observable process, P, results from the coupling of

two partial processes, one slow (S) and the other fast (F), with F

proceeding faster than S by a factor of 10^2 or more, then S must

precede F.

So generalized, the FCP (Figure 2.6) can be applied to biological,

coupled processes ranging from ligand binding to proteins and other

biopolymers, enzymic catalysis (detailed in Section 3.2.9), morpho­

genesis, and brain functions to the biological evolution itself (see [7,

Table 1.12]).

2.8 The Atom–Cell Isomorphism

The atom and the living cell can be compared based on the currently avail­

able scientific concepts and principles as shown in Figure 2.7. The first

theoretical model of the atom was proposed by Bohr in 1913 [77] by

combining the atomic spectroscopic data accumulated in the second half

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