The Singularity of Nature : A Convergence of Biology Chemistry and Physics 1.10 Cell Cell Signaling Perspective as Common Ground for Physiologic Evolution 1.11 Epigenetic Inheritance and the Primacy of the Unicellular State 1.12 Paulis Exclusion Principle and the First Principles of Physiology 1.13 Non localization in Physics and Biology 1.14 A Fractal View of Life 1.15 Consciousness the Epitome of the Continuum from Inanimate to Animate 1.16 Discussion 1.17 Conclusion References Chapter 2 Bohm Meets Bacon 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Bohms Explicate and Implicate Orders Meet the Arts The Singularity of Nature: A Convergence of Biology Chemistry and Physics takes a systems based approach to the origin and evolution of complex life. Readers will gain a novel understanding of physiologic evolution and the limits to our current understanding 3.9.3 Consequences for Biomedical Research 3.10 Conclusion References Chapter 4 C.P. Snows Two Cultures Condition Is Resolved by the Singularity 4.1 Empiricism as the Path from the Explicate to the Implicate Order: Common Ground for Science and the Arts 4.2 Einsteins Relativity Is Necessary to Think This Way 4.3 Conclusions References Chapter 5 The Heart Is Not Just a Pump the Brain Is Not Your Only Mind 5.1 Hollands Skin brain Hypothesis 5.2 Nicotines Effect on N acetylcholine Receptors Homology Between Lung and Brain Intro Half Title Title Copyright Preface Contents Chapter 1 The Singularity of Nature 1.1 Introduction 1.1.1 Prologue 1.2 On the Mechanisms of Biologic Evolution 1.3 Cell Cell Interactions and Embryonic Pattern Formation 1.4 In the Beginning 1.5 The Driving Force Behind Biology Is Ambiguity 1.6 Evolutionary Biology Is Scale free Physics Is Not 1.7 The Role of Deception in Biology 1.8 Terminal Addition as Evidence of the Singularity 1.9 Proximate and Ultimate Causation a Myth 5.3 Pleiotropic Defensins Reveal Deep Physiologic Relationship Between Lung and Skin 5.4 Symmorphosis Experience as Corollary to Deep Physiology 5.5 The Brain Is Not the Mind 5.6 The Body Is Not Who We Are References Chapter 6 Why You Must Transcend Space time in Order to Understand Consciousness 6.1 Predictive Value of Consciousness as a Fractal of the Cosmos References Chapter 7 The Evolutionary Significance of Homeostasis 7.1 Homeostasis Is Not Stasis 7.2 Bernard to Cannon 7.3 Dyshomeostasis 7.4 Waddingtons Diachronic Perspective 7.5 Downward Causation 2.3 Einsteins Relativity Is Necessary to Think This Way 2.4 Conclusions References Chapter 3 The Cell Evolution and Occams Razor 3.1 Introduction 3.2 On the Consequences of Descriptive Biology 3.3 Revising the Standard Synthesis 3.4 The Primacy of the Unicellular State 3.5 Phenotype Is a Verb Not a Noun 3.6 New Validity to Terminal Addition 3.7 Neoteny Heterochrony in a New Frame 3.8 The Life Cycle Rethought 3.9 Discussion 3.9.1 Descriptive versus Cellular Molecular Biology and Occams Razor 3.9.2 Heliocentrism the Age of Reason and Beyond