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ReviewProgress in biophysics and molecular biology2017

The resolution of ambiguity as the basis for life: A cellular bridge between Western reductionism and Eastern holism.

John S Torday, William B Miller

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Review in Progress in biophysics and molecular biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Biomolecular Basis of Cellular Consciousness via Subcellular Nanobrains.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

John S TordayDepartment of Pediatrics, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502, USA. Electronic address: jtorday@labiomed.org.
William B MillerParadise Valley, AZ, USA. Electronic address: wbmiller1@cox.net.

Funding

HORMONAL REGULATION OF LUNG DEVELOPMENT;PTHrP BIOLOGYR01HL055268 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE · PI TORDAY, JOHN STEVEN · 1997 to 2009
$3.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL055268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Boundary conditions enable cellular life through negentropy, chemiosmosis, and homeostasis as identifiable First Principles of Physiology. Self-referential awareness of status arises from this organized state to sustain homeostatic imperatives. Preferred homeostatic status is dependent upon the appraisal of information and its communication. However, among living entities, sources of information and their dissemination are always imprecise. Consequently, living systems exist within an innate state of ambiguity. It is presented that cellular life and evolutionary development are a self-organizing cellular response to uncertainty in iterative conformity with its basal initiating parameters. Viewing the life circumstance in this manner permits a reasoned unification between Western rational reductionism and Eastern holism.

Indexed as

Cell BiologyPhilosophyWestern WorldAnimalsCell CommunicationCellsEpigenesis, GeneticHumansChemiosmosisFirst Principles of PhysiologyHomeostasisNegentropyUncertainty

Identifiers

PMID28743585
PMCPMC5733722

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