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Randomness and Multi-level Interactions in Biology

Other Quantitative Biology 2011-04-07 v1

Abstract

The dynamic instability of the living systems and the "superposition" of different forms of randomness are viewed as a component of the contingently increasing organization of life along evolution. We briefly survey how classical and quantum physics define randomness differently. We then discuss why this requires, in our view, an enrichment of the understanding of the effects of their concurrent presence in biological systems' dynamics. Biological randomness is then presented as an essential component of the heterogeneous determination and intrinsic unpredictability proper to life phenomena, due to the nesting and interaction of many levels of organization. Even increasing organization itself induces growing disorder, by energy dispersal effects of course, but also by variability and differentiation. Co-operation between diverse components in networks implies at the same time the presence of constraints due to the peculiar forms of (bio-)resonance and (bio-)entanglement we discuss.

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@article{arxiv.1104.1110,
  title  = {Randomness and Multi-level Interactions in Biology},
  author = {Marcello Buiatti and Giuseppe Longo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1104.1110},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

30 pages; classical/quantum randomness, critical transitions, random complexification, entropy production, network constraints, bio-resonance

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