Is meaning commensurable in scientific theories? From arbitrariness to non-nomological relations in meaning-making
Biosystems. 2023 Oct 4;234:105042. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105042. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor scientific projects to deal with something as diffuse as meaning-making there are multiple hurdles to solve, starting with the validity of meaning as a specific phenomenon to be represented scientifically. Modulating the concept of meaning into a comprehensible phenomenon across different scales of validity - as a top-to-bottom approach in the sense of applying meaning to areas where it is not commonplace - requires being able to both differentiate its expression in subjective systems (as, for instance, individuals w...
Source: Biosystems - October 5, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Claudio Julio Rodr íguez Higuera Source Type: research
Is meaning commensurable in scientific theories? From arbitrariness to non-nomological relations in meaning-making
Biosystems. 2023 Oct 3:105042. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105042. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor scientific projects to deal with something as diffuse as meaning-making there are multiple hurdles to solve, starting with the validity of meaning as a specific phenomenon to be represented scientifically. Modulating the concept of meaning into a comprehensible phenomenon across different scales of validity-as a top-to-bottom approach in the sense of applying meaning to areas where it is not commonplace-requires being able to both differentiate its expression in subjective systems (as, for instance, individuals with the ...
Source: Biosystems - October 5, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Claudio Julio Rodr íguez Higuera Source Type: research
Is meaning commensurable in scientific theories? From arbitrariness to non-nomological relations in meaning-making
Biosystems. 2023 Oct 3:105042. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105042. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFor scientific projects to deal with something as diffuse as meaning-making there are multiple hurdles to solve, starting with the validity of meaning as a specific phenomenon to be represented scientifically. Modulating the concept of meaning into a comprehensible phenomenon across different scales of validity-as a top-to-bottom approach in the sense of applying meaning to areas where it is not commonplace-requires being able to both differentiate its expression in subjective systems (as, for instance, individuals with the ...
Source: Biosystems - October 5, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Claudio Julio Rodr íguez Higuera Source Type: research
Macroevolution, differentiation trees, and the growth of coding systems
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 30:105044. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105044. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAn open process of evolution of multicellular organisms is based on the rearrangement and growth of the program of differentiation that underlies biological morphogenesis. The maintenance of the final (adult) stable non-equilibrium state (stasis) of a developmental system determines the direction of the evolutionary process. This state is achieved via the sequence of differentiation events representable as differentiation trees. A special type of morphogenetic code, acting as a metacode governing gene expression, may includ...
Source: Biosystems - October 2, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Abir U Igamberdiev Richard Gordon Source Type: research
Macroevolution, differentiation trees, and the growth of coding systems
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 30:105044. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105044. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAn open process of evolution of multicellular organisms is based on the rearrangement and growth of the program of differentiation that underlies biological morphogenesis. The maintenance of the final (adult) stable non-equilibrium state (stasis) of a developmental system determines the direction of the evolutionary process. This state is achieved via the sequence of differentiation events representable as differentiation trees. A special type of morphogenetic code, acting as a metacode governing gene expression, may includ...
Source: Biosystems - October 2, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Abir U Igamberdiev Richard Gordon Source Type: research
Macroevolution, differentiation trees, and the growth of coding systems
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 30:105044. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105044. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTAn open process of evolution of multicellular organisms is based on the rearrangement and growth of the program of differentiation that underlies biological morphogenesis. The maintenance of the final (adult) stable non-equilibrium state (stasis) of a developmental system determines the direction of the evolutionary process. This state is achieved via the sequence of differentiation events representable as differentiation trees. A special type of morphogenetic code, acting as a metacode governing gene expression, may includ...
Source: Biosystems - October 2, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Abir U Igamberdiev Richard Gordon Source Type: research
The flower of the desert and a migrant experience: Two examples of personal codes
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 27;233:105040. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105040. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe concept of personal code is inspired by Peirce and Coseriu but is compatible with Code Biology. Persons can build their cultural code out of the codes available among their communities. Personal codes are social i.e., they are constructed by a population of interacting human code-makers, yet the interacting population is made of different states of the same human mind. The rules of personal codes are a set that can be partitioned into two subsets: the subset of rules that are shared with other human beings and the s...
Source: Biosystems - September 28, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Valerio Marconi Source Type: research
The flower of the desert and a migrant experience: Two examples of personal codes
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 26:105040. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105040. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe concept of personal code is inspired by Peirce and Coseriu but is compatible with Code Biology. Persons can build their cultural code out of the codes available among their communities. Personal codes are social i.e., they are constructed by a population of interacting human code-makers, yet the interacting population is made of different states of the same human mind. The rules of personal codes are a set that can be partitioned into two subsets: the subset of rules that are shared with other human beings and the subse...
Source: Biosystems - September 28, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Valerio Marconi Source Type: research
The flower of the desert and a migrant experience: Two examples of personal codes
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 26:105040. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105040. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe concept of personal code is inspired by Peirce and Coseriu but is compatible with Code Biology. Persons can build their cultural code out of the codes available among their communities. Personal codes are social i.e., they are constructed by a population of interacting human code-makers, yet the interacting population is made of different states of the same human mind. The rules of personal codes are a set that can be partitioned into two subsets: the subset of rules that are shared with other human beings and the subse...
Source: Biosystems - September 28, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Valerio Marconi Source Type: research
The flower of the desert and a migrant experience: Two examples of personal codes
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 26:105040. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105040. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe concept of personal code is inspired by Peirce and Coseriu but is compatible with Code Biology. Persons can build their cultural code out of the codes available among their communities. Personal codes are social i.e., they are constructed by a population of interacting human code-makers, yet the interacting population is made of different states of the same human mind. The rules of personal codes are a set that can be partitioned into two subsets: the subset of rules that are shared with other human beings and the subse...
Source: Biosystems - September 28, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Valerio Marconi Source Type: research
Natural intelligence and the 'economy' of social emotions
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 22:105039. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105039. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBy approaching the concept of Natural Intelligence a new path may be open in a variety of theoretical and applied problems on social emotions. There is no doubt that intelligence emerges as a biological/informational phenomenon, although paradoxically a consistent elaboration of that concept has been missing. Regarding emotions, they have been keeping an unclear status, being often restricted to the anthropological or to ethological approaches closer to the behaviorist paradigm. Herein we propose a different track, centered...
Source: Biosystems - September 24, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Jorge Navarro Pedro C Mariju án Source Type: research
Natural intelligence and the 'economy' of social emotions
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 22:105039. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105039. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBy approaching the concept of Natural Intelligence a new path may be open in a variety of theoretical and applied problems on social emotions. There is no doubt that intelligence emerges as a biological/informational phenomenon, although paradoxically a consistent elaboration of that concept has been missing. Regarding emotions, they have been keeping an unclear status, being often restricted to the anthropological or to ethological approaches closer to the behaviorist paradigm. Herein we propose a different track, centered...
Source: Biosystems - September 24, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Jorge Navarro Pedro C Mariju án Source Type: research
Natural intelligence and the 'economy' of social emotions
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 22:105039. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105039. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTBy approaching the concept of Natural Intelligence a new path may be open in a variety of theoretical and applied problems on social emotions. There is no doubt that intelligence emerges as a biological/informational phenomenon, although paradoxically a consistent elaboration of that concept has been missing. Regarding emotions, they have been keeping an unclear status, being often restricted to the anthropological or to ethological approaches closer to the behaviorist paradigm. Herein we propose a different track, centered...
Source: Biosystems - September 24, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Jorge Navarro Pedro C Mariju án Source Type: research
Diving into cancer OXPHOS - The application of metabolic control analysis to cell and tissue research
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 20:105032. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105032. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTKnowing how the oxidative phosphorylation (OXPHOS) system in cancer cells operates differently from that of normal cells would help find compounds that specifically paralyze the energy metabolism of cancer cells. The first experiments in the study of mitochondrial respiration using the metabolic control analysis (MCA) method were done with isolated liver mitochondria in the early 80s of the last century. Subsequent studies have shown that the regulation of mitochondrial respiration by ADP in isolated mitochondria differs si...
Source: Biosystems - September 22, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Marju Puurand Kersti Tepp Tuuli K äämbre Source Type: research
How ambiguity codes specify molecular descriptors and information flow in Code Biology
Biosystems. 2023 Sep 20:105034. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2023.105034. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe aritcle presents IUPAC ambiguity codes for incomplete nucleic acid specification, and their use in Code Biology. It is shown how to use this nomenclature in order to extract accurate information on different properties of the biological systems. We investigated the use of ambiguity codes, as mathematical and logical operators and truth table elements, for the encoding of amino acids by means of the Standard Genetic Code. It is explained how to use ambiguity codes and truth functions in order to obtain accurate informati...
Source: Biosystems - September 22, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Nikola Štambuk Pa ško Konjevoda Albert Štambuk Source Type: research
