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On the physics of the symbol—matter problem in biological systems and the origin of life: affine Hilbert spaces model of the robustness of the internal quantum dynamics of biological systems

András Balázs

Published May 12, 2003• 10 citations
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10.1016/s0303-2647(03)00027-3

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In this brief paper, some further global phenomenological consequences of the results obtained in previous studies by the author, are presented. Rather than going into molecular details, we are content with conditioned probability theory here. The term ’’primary process’’ is introduced, pointing to the molecular realm, in contrast to the ’’secondary realm’’, the nervous-system dependent processes. These concepts of the ’’secondary’’ processes are detailed in a forthcoming paper, focusing on the ’’Mind/Matter’’ problem (Balazs, 2015a). Here we would like to concentrate on the ’’primary’’, molecular realm, if only in an admittedly phenomenological way, with the focal point of a so-called ’’molecular (dis)identity’’. The consequences of state space extension is discussed, the state space containing besides finite, atomic bound quantum mechanical Hilbert state spaces, also symbolic (automata-’’metaphorical’’), virtual, classical states. The ’’extension’’ of the state space thus referres to additional classical states, obtained by direct sum procedures, leading to a non-invariant subspace. The notion of ’’symbols’’ in the molecular realm corresponds to generalized ’’coordinates’’ of molecular shapes and refer here to mathematical ’’transition functions’’, connecting dynamically wavefunctions of sterical complementing molecular shapes in the underlying quantum dynamics. We extend our analysis of the ’’primary biological symbolic processes’’ to our central proposed quantum physical ’’molecular disidentity’’ which arised because of the emergence of these two, joint (quantum mechanical/classical) representations in molecular state spaces, having come about in an original primeval ’’Heisenberg–event’’. It may have been a global, endophysical ’’self– transition’’ (’’excitation’’) being relaxed by an internal ’’reverse’’ time process. Molecular ’’disidentity’’, explained in the text as pointing beyond its pure physical self-identity, in other words, the ’’primary’’ symbolic process, thus is indirectly relaxed by self–replication (daughter cells as individual entities), leading to the identity of the parent living organism with the surrounding Universe in this special, biological, indirect route. This mechanism is particularly clear at multicellular organisms.

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The symbol-matter problem of biological systems, posed clearly by H. H. Pattee, is followed up to its origin in a quantum mechanical framework. The two complementer descriptional mode (i.e. dynamical versus symbolic or quantum mechanical versus ''classical'') are defined as connected in a Copenhagen–type quasiclassical (h → 0) dynamics (internal time-dependent discrete projection operator formalism). The concept of natural symbol as constraint is described in the form of a quasiclassical wavefunction with classical measurement records as variables while the basic projectors are defined as a quasiclassical dynamical "bra" Hilbert vector acting on a quantum dynamical "ket" vector. The origin problem is touched necessarily upon, as a split between measurement record (so its quasiclassical wavefunction, natural symbol) and the quantum mechanical dynamical wavefunction. The concept of symmetry-restoring internal time process is introduced, following from compelling internal retrocausality of a time evolution (advocated several times elsewhere). While adopting basically the Copenhagen view, using some ideas of Everett and other aspects of non–orthodox formulations of quantum measurement, it is shown that the necessary imbedding of internal (-τ) time evolution into the split off external (+t) one and internal time ’’quantizations’’ (leading to a discrete total semigroup) results in a converging chain of quantum internal measurement transitions, similar to those introduced by H. P. Stapp in his symbolic (human mind-) model, ultimately leading to a model of an elementary, very special self-reproducing quantum automata, where the state transition functions are internally determined (programmed) from the very origin of their emergence. It is shown that only off-diagonal statistical matrix elements are to be used in the internal projectionally evoluting time–series (metabolism), ’’self’’-reproduction (diagonality) being the fixed point of the recursion of the internal state transitions of the proposed quantum mechanical automata model (’’metaphor’’).
The original proposal of H. H. CitationPattee (1971) of basing quantum theoretical measurement theory on the theory of the origin of life, and its far reaching consequences, is discussed in the light of a recently emerging biological paradigm of internal measurement. It is established that the “measurement problem” of quantum physics can, in principle, be traced back to the internal material constraints of the biological organisms, where choice is a fundamental attribute of the self-measurement of matter. In this light, which is shown to be a consequence of Pattee's original suggestion, it is proposed that biological evolution is a gradual liberation from the inert unity of “subject” and “object” of inanimate matter (as “natural law” and “initial conditions”), to a split biological existence of them and, as a consequence, the “message of evolution” is freedom, rather than complexity in itself. Some classical philosophical systems are brought into context to show that the epistemologies of several strictly philosophical systems of the social sciences are well acquainted with the problem and their solutions support our conclusions.
In this brief paper, some further global phenomenological consequences of the results obtained in previous studies by the author, are presented. Rather than going into molecular details, we are content with conditioned probability theory here. The term ’’primary process’’ is introduced, pointing to the molecular realm, in contrast to the ’’secondary realm’’, the nervous-system dependent processes. These concepts of the ’’secondary’’ processes are detailed in a forthcoming paper, focusing on the ’’Mind/Matter’’ problem (Balazs, 2015a). Here we would like to concentrate on the ’’primary’’, molecular realm, if only in an admittedly phenomenological way, with the focal point of a so-called ’’molecular (dis)identity’’. The consequences of state space extension is discussed, the state space containing besides finite, atomic bound quantum mechanical Hilbert state spaces, also symbolic (automata-’’metaphorical’’), virtual, classical states. The ’’extension’’ of the state space thus referres to additional classical states, obtained by direct sum procedures, leading to a non-invariant subspace. The notion of ’’symbols’’ in the molecular realm corresponds to generalized ’’coordinates’’ of molecular shapes and refer here to mathematical ’’transition functions’’, connecting dynamically wavefunctions of sterical complementing molecular shapes in the underlying quantum dynamics. We extend our analysis of the ’’primary biological symbolic processes’’ to our central proposed quantum physical ’’molecular disidentity’’ which arised because of the emergence of these two, joint (quantum mechanical/classical) representations in molecular state spaces, having come about in an original primeval ’’Heisenberg–event’’. It may have been a global, endophysical ’’self– transition’’ (’’excitation’’) being relaxed by an internal ’’reverse’’ time process. Molecular ’’disidentity’’, explained in the text as pointing beyond its pure physical self-identity, in other words, the ’’primary’’ symbolic process, thus is indirectly relaxed by self–replication (daughter cells as individual entities), leading to the identity of the parent living organism with the surrounding Universe in this special, biological, indirect route. This mechanism is particularly clear at multicellular organisms.