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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
MEMORY CODE. “Polynucleotides are synthesized at rates ranging from 10 to 100 nucleotides/s. Because there are 4 nucleotides, each successive location in a string of nucleotides can carry 2 bits of information. Thus, an n-bit polynucleotide numeron could be generated in roughly n centi-seconds. A 21-bit polynucleotide can encode slightly more than 2,000,000 biochemically distinguishable numerons.” https://lnkd.in/dkxvq7Eq 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
SIMPLE BUT NONLINEAR. “But despite the irregularity in the values of successive points, the relationship between one point and the next is always very simple, though nonlinear.” https://lnkd.in/d9T6yEgv View in LinkedIn
CONNECTEDNESS. “In The Vocation of Man (1800), Johann Gottlieb Fichte says "you could not remove a single grain of sand from its place without thereby ... changing something throughout all parts of the immeasurable whole". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_effect View in LinkedIn
THE FORMULA. “When the data in Fig. 1 are plotted in this manner, known as a Poincare plot, a very simple relationship becomes apparent (Fig.2). In this example, the relationship is simply the curve described by the equation for a parabola: " "Xn = aXnI (1 -Xn-l) (Equation 1).” 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
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
ANNIHILATION. “If surrounding matter is present, the energy content of this radiation will be absorbed and converted into other forms of energy, such as heat or light. The amount of energy released is usually proportional to the total mass of the collided matter and antimatter, in accordance with the notable mass–energy equivalence equation, E=mc2.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter View in LinkedIn