Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems
Abstract
Symmetry-based explanations using symmetry breaking (SB) as the key explanatory tool have complemented and replaced traditional causal explanations in various domains of physics. The process of spontaneous SB is now a mainstay of contemporary explanatory accounts of large chunks of condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, nonlinear dynamics, cosmology, and other disciplines. A wide range of empirical research into various phenomena related to symmetries and SB across biological scales has accumulated as well. Led by these results, we identify and explain some common features of the emergence, propagation, and cascading of SB-induced layers across the biosphere. These features are predicated on the thermodynamic openness and intrinsic functional incompleteness of the systems at stake and have not been systematically analyzed from a general philosophical and methodological perspective. We also consider possible continuity of SB across the physical and biological world and discuss ...the connection between Darwinism and SB-based analysis of the biosphere and its history.
Keywords:
Symmetry breaking / Phase-transitions / Open systems / Homochirality / BiosphereSource:
Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, 2020, 150, 1-12Publisher:
- Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford
Funding / projects:
- Visible and Invisible Matter in Nearby Galaxies: Theory and Observations (RS-176021)
- Theory and practice of science in society: multidisciplinary, educational and intergenerational perspectives (RS-179048)
- Logical-epistemological basis of metaphysics (RS-179067)
- Biomarkers in neurodegenerative and malignant processes (RS-41005)
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.02.001
ISSN: 0079-6107
PubMed: 30776381
WoS: 000510957500001
Scopus: 2-s2.0-85077915167
Institution/Community
Filozofija / PhilosophyTY - JOUR AU - Korenić, Andrej AU - Perović, Slobodan AU - Ćirković, Milan M. AU - Miguel, Paul-Antoine PY - 2020 UR - http://reff.f.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/3169 AB - Symmetry-based explanations using symmetry breaking (SB) as the key explanatory tool have complemented and replaced traditional causal explanations in various domains of physics. The process of spontaneous SB is now a mainstay of contemporary explanatory accounts of large chunks of condensed matter physics, quantum field theory, nonlinear dynamics, cosmology, and other disciplines. A wide range of empirical research into various phenomena related to symmetries and SB across biological scales has accumulated as well. Led by these results, we identify and explain some common features of the emergence, propagation, and cascading of SB-induced layers across the biosphere. These features are predicated on the thermodynamic openness and intrinsic functional incompleteness of the systems at stake and have not been systematically analyzed from a general philosophical and methodological perspective. We also consider possible continuity of SB across the physical and biological world and discuss the connection between Darwinism and SB-based analysis of the biosphere and its history. PB - Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford T2 - Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology T1 - Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems EP - 12 SP - 1 VL - 150 DO - 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.02.001 ER -
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Korenić, A., Perović, S., Ćirković, M. M.,& Miguel, P.. (2020). Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems. in Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd, Oxford., 150, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.02.001
Korenić A, Perović S, Ćirković MM, Miguel P. Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems. in Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology. 2020;150:1-12. doi:10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.02.001 .
Korenić, Andrej, Perović, Slobodan, Ćirković, Milan M., Miguel, Paul-Antoine, "Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems" in Progress in Biophysics & Molecular Biology, 150 (2020):1-12, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.02.001 . .