What is life?
New Horizons in Integrated Complex System Sciences
Masatoshi Murase(Author)
Wiley-VCH (Publisher)
1st Edition
Will be published approx. 2030
Book
Hardback
600 pages
978-3-527-41121-4 (ISBN)
Description
Like any large interactive non-living system exhibiting global features, complex life phenomena cannot be fully understood by analyzing parts separately. We need a paradigm shift to live in our complex emergent world. This long-standing problem has attracted many physicists especially since Erwin Schrodinger published the famous book What is Life? in 1944. The broad goal of this book, is not a reduction of biology to physics, but a profound understanding of complex systems and of their physical basis. Generally, physicists do not know biological terminology, and biologists are not familiar with physical laws, the terminology being completely different. In this book, the author aims to present an integrated view of complex systems for a variety of readers in complex system science (physics, biology, mathematics, chemistry, material sciences, engineering, etc.).
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Weinheim
Germany
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
50 farbige Abbildungen, 150 s/w Abbildungen
Dimensions
Height: 244 mm
Width: 170 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-527-41121-4 (9783527411214)
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Professor Masatoshi Murase received his PhD degree from the University of Tokyo, Japan, in 1987. In 1992, he became an associate professor at the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Japan. Between 1987 to 1988 he was a visiting scientist at Duke University Medical Centre, USA, and from 1990 to 1991, an associate professor in the Department of Mathematics of the University of California at Davis USA. Between 1985 to 1992 he was a member of the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology, Tokyo, Japan. In 1997, to commemorate the centenary of the birth of Hideki Yukawa, he chaired an international symposium at Kyoto University, entitled, "What is Life" The Next 100 Years of Yukawa's Dream?. The proceedings of this symposium appeared as a Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement No.173, 1-370 (2008). http://www2.yukawa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ptpwww/ He has more recently co- chaired the International & Interdisciplinary Symposium 2010 on "Novel Phenomena in Integrated Complex Sciences: from Non-living to Living Systems" http://kuchem.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kinso/IIW2010/HOME.html, and will chair the Kyoto University Forum 2011 on "Toward a Century of New Synthesis", and Hayashibara Forum 2011 on "Integrated Complex System Science: Life, Mind and Environment". He is the author of. "Dynamics of Cellular Motility" (John Wiley, 1992) and is also the author of "Life as History - Construction of Endo-Exo Circulation Theory" (Japanese language, Kyoto University Press, 2000, ISBN: 4-87698-403-4 C1045).
Content
Forword
1. Introduction -
From physics to biology and metabiology
2. The breakdowns of traditional concepts in life science -
Beyond gene centric view
3. The beginning of life out of the missing boundaries of life and death
4. Paradigm shift in 19th century
5. Foundation of natural selectionist views
6. Paradigm shifts in 20th century
7. The breakdowns of gene-centric view and selectionnist perspective
8. Alzheimer's Disease and prion disease as subcellular 'cancer?
9. Aging as intrain dividual evolution
10. Polymorphism
11. Origins of life
12. Life science in 21st century
13. Evolution of mind and its aging
14. Motility and sensation
15. Beyond neuron-centric view
16. Liquid biochemistry v.s. living crystals
17. Amplification and universal control mechanism
18. Bioelectromagnetism and regulation
19. Self-organized criticality
20. Consciousness and unconsciousness
21. Environment
22. Conclusions
1. Introduction -
From physics to biology and metabiology
2. The breakdowns of traditional concepts in life science -
Beyond gene centric view
3. The beginning of life out of the missing boundaries of life and death
4. Paradigm shift in 19th century
5. Foundation of natural selectionist views
6. Paradigm shifts in 20th century
7. The breakdowns of gene-centric view and selectionnist perspective
8. Alzheimer's Disease and prion disease as subcellular 'cancer?
9. Aging as intrain dividual evolution
10. Polymorphism
11. Origins of life
12. Life science in 21st century
13. Evolution of mind and its aging
14. Motility and sensation
15. Beyond neuron-centric view
16. Liquid biochemistry v.s. living crystals
17. Amplification and universal control mechanism
18. Bioelectromagnetism and regulation
19. Self-organized criticality
20. Consciousness and unconsciousness
21. Environment
22. Conclusions