Year: 2022

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS. “The method has now been applied successfully to several physical and chemical systems. It also has been speculated that chaos control may be a physiologic mechanism of information processing by the brain.” https://lnkd.in/d9T6yEgv View in LinkedIn

ARRHYTHMIA EXAMPLE. “We adapted chaos control theory for its first biological application, the chaotic cardiac arrhythmia described below.” https://lnkd.in/d9T6yEgv View in LinkedIn

STANDARD APPROACH. “Biomedical research has traditionally focused on analyzing the behavior of an organ system by breaking it down into individual components and studying these in increasing detail.” https://lnkd.in/d9T6yEgv View in LinkedIn

FAILURE OF REDUCTIONISM. “The approach, however, has remarkable success of this reductionist approach, however, has limitations when one tries to reassemble the whole from the individual components to predict behavior in a system as complex as a biological organ. This s especially true when the interactions between the components are nonlinear and the potential for chaos exists.” https://lnkd.in/d9T6yEgv View in LinkedIn

PHYSIOLOGIC CHAOS. “Any clinical state in which a key physiological parameter, e.g., blood pressure, hormone levels, immunological responses, etc., is shown to be chaotic is potentially amenable to control by introducing small, critically timed perturbations based on this technique.” https://lnkd.in/d9T6yEgv View in LinkedIn

COAUTHOR Mark L. Spano “has published over 50 scientific papers and has been granted a patent for the control of chaos in cardiac tissue in addition to having a patent application pending on the control of chaos in neural tissue. “ https://lnkd.in/d2-H23j6 View in LinkedIn

SO ENDS this one weekend posting on the butterfly effect applied to physiologic chaotic phenomena that are underpinned by simple rules. Biologists have been slow to adopt this powerful concept for phenomena such as hives, swarms and population dynamics, but it is assuredly at play in these seemingly chaotic systems. https://lnkd.in/d9T6yEgv View in LinkedIn

LIKE EVERYTHING. “Death, like life, can evolve.” (Stanley Shostak, Associate Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh). https://lnkd.in/dcrQtEaf View in LinkedIn

An old deserted Catalan lime kiln where limestone was roasted to make cement. View in LinkedIn