Bioplazma oraz plazma fizyczna w układach żywych. [Bioplasma and physical plasma in living systems]
Subtitle: Studium przyrodnicze i filozoficzne [A study in science and philosophy]
Publisher: Redakcja Wydawnictw KUL
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Lublin
Table of contents: title: Bioplasma and physical plasma in living systems. A study in science and philosophy [In Polish]; title: INTRODUCTION...13; title: 1. PHYSICAL PLASMA IN INANIMATE AND; title: ANIMATE SYSTEMS – AN OUTLINE OF THE AREA...25; title: 1.1. An outline of the history of investigation...25; title: 1.1.1. Main stages of the investigation on plasma as a unique state of matter...26; title: 1.1.2.Suggestions of the connection between physical plasma and the living state ...33; title: 1.2. Physical plasma – a general description ...38; title: 1.2.1. Necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of plasma ...38; title: 1.2.2. Basic properties of plasma ...44; title: 1.2.3. Abundance of plasma and its primordiality as related to the other states of matter ...49; title: 2. WŁODZIMIERZ SEDLAK’S CONCEPTOF BIOPLASMA ...55; title: 2.1. Definitions of bioplasma, its localization and types ...55; title: 2.1.1. The meanings imbued to the term „bioplasma” ...56; title: 2.1.2. Specificity of bioplasma ...62; title: 2.1.3. The components and typology of bioplasma...72; title: 2.2. The properties of physical plasma as properties of bioplasma ...77; title: 2.2.1. Dynamics ...77; title: 2.2.2. The coupling of interactions in the plasma medium ...77; title: 2.2.3. The state of energetic excitation ...78; title: 2.2.4. Abundance ...80; title: 2.3. Life roles ascribed to bioplasma ...81; title: 2.3.1. In ontogeny .……………………………………………	81; title: 2.3.2. Evolution of bioplasma and the role of bioplasma in evolution ...91; title: 3. VICTOR M. INYUSHIN’S CONCEPT OF BIOPLASMA ...105; title: 3.1. Definitions of bioplasma and its types ...105; title: 3.1.1. The meanings ascribed to the term „bioplasma” ...105; title: 3.1.2. Types of bioplasma ...106; title: 3.2. The components of bioplasma and its localization ...107; title: 3.2.1.The entites constituting plasma ...107; title: 3.2.2. Localization ...109; title: 3.3. Properties of bioplasma ...110; title: 3.3.1. Basic properties of bioplasma ...110; title: 3.3.2. Specificity of bioplasma ...113; title: 3.3.3. The role in life processes played by bioplasma ...116; title: 4. THE ATTEMPTS OF SEDLAK AND INYUSHIN AT JUSTIFICATION OF THE CONCEPT OF BIOPLASMA AND SHOWING ITS VALUE ...119; title: 4.1. Sedlak ...120; title: 4.1.1. The results of biophysics and of physiology ...122; title: 4.1.2. The attempts at quantitative describing of bioplasma ...125; title: 4.1.3. The role in the study of life ascribed to the concept of bioplasma ...129; title: 4.1.4. Rhetorical means applied by Sedlak in justifying the concept ...131; title: 4.2. Inyushin and coworkers ...147; title: 4.2.1. The arguments from the results of empirical investigation ...147; title: 4.2.2. The utility of the concept in life sciences ...151; title: 4.2.3. Applications stemming from the concept to practical problems ...153; title: 4.2.4. The extra-matter-of-fact  circumstances and meta-disciplinary arguments ...154; title: 5. THE CHARGES BROUGHT ABOUT TO SEDLAK IN REGARD TO HIS NOT RESPECTING THE SCIENTIFIC PROCEDURES IN HIS WRITING DEVOTED TO BIOELECTRONICS AND BIOPLASMA CONCEPT ...157; title: 5.1. Regarding bioelectronics ...161; title: 5.1.1. The factual content ...161; title: 5.1.2. Methods and ways of describing the results of investigation ...162; title: 5.1.3. Professional qualification and features of personality ...165; title: 5.2. The category of crippled scientific publications at the background of other ones referring to science ...166; title: 5.2.1. Standard scientific texts and those of mixed type ...167; title: 5.2.2. Non-scientific texts relating to science ...169; title: 5.2.3. Crippled scientific texts ...171; title: 5.3.  Remarks to the charges and their assessment ...173; title: 5.3.1. Matter-of-fact questions of science ...174; title: 5.3.2. Methods of investigation and ways of presentation of results ...176; title: 5.3.3. Competence in science and features of personality ...179; title: 5.3.4. General assessment of the charges ...180; title: 5.4. Sedlaks metaphor of life as plasma? ...183; title: 5.4.1. Metaphor and its main kinds ...184; title: 5.4.2. The structure of metaphorical expression ...186; title: 5.4.3. The role of metaphor in science 	 ...188; title: 5.4.4. The question of metaphorical character od Sedlak's description of bioplasma ...190; title: 5.4.5. Possible role of plasma metaphor in investigation of life ...196; title: 6. BIOPHYSICAL ARGUMENTS FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF THE EXISTENCE OF PHYSICAL PLASMA IN ORGANISMS – FIRST TARGETS OF EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION ...199; title: 6.1. The results of empirical investigation already carried out and possible methods of detection of plasma in biostructures ...201; title: 6.1.1. Electronic conductivity in biosystems ...201; title: 6.1.2. Experiments showing the existence of plasma by the physical type response of biosystems ...204; title: 6.1.3. Experiments showing the possible occurence of plasma in biosystems on the basis of other types of their response  ...206; title: 6.2. Other important scientific questions connected with bioplasma and physical plasma in biosystems.	208; title: 6.2.1. Spatial relations: localization of bioplasma in biosystems ...209; title: 6.2.2. Durability of bioplasma  ...211; title: 6.2.3. The genesis of the connection of plasma with life processes ...212; title: 6.2.4. Phylogenetic and ontogentic changes of bioplasma ...214; title: 6.2.5. Integrative and regulatory role of plasma as an example of its involvement in life processes ...217; title: 7. THE CONCEPT OF BIOPLASMA IN THE CONTEXT OF SIMILAR GENERAL APPROACHES TO THE NATURE OF LIVING SYSTEMS AND THEIR INTERRELATIONSHIP WITH THE UNIVERSE ...223; title: 7.1. Parallelisms between the Old Stoa doctrine of pneuma and the concept of bioplasma ...224; title: 7.1.1. Composition and properties of pneuma of „non-living” world ...226; title: 7.1.2. Composition and properties of pneuma of living world ...231; title: 7.2. Parallelisms between the Old Stoa doctrine of pneuma and the current knowledge on the physical plasma ...235; title: 7.2.1. Subtleness ...236; title: 7.2.2. Co-occurrence with other elements and states of aggregation ...237; title: 7.2.3. Determining of properties ...238; title: 7.2.4. Dynamism ...239; title: 7.2.5. Occurrence and the role in the Cosmos ...240; title: 7.2.6  Primordiality ...241; title: 7.2.7. The assessment of the parallelisms between the doctrine of pneuma and the concept of bioplasma ...248; title: 7.3. Raoul H. Franc?’s concept of biological plasma as the universal substrate of life ...251; title: 7.3.1. Properties of biological plasma ...252; title: 7.3.2. The role of bioplasma in living systems ...255; title: 7.3.3. Role of the concept of bioplasma ...257; title: 7.4. Tadeusz Teller concept of the t-bioplasma ...259; title: 7.4.1. Definition and properties ...260; title: 7.4.2. The role in life processes ...260; title: 8. BIOPLASMA IN THE CONTEXT OF DISCIPLINARY AND METADISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO THE NATURE OF COMPLEX SYSTEMS  ...267; title: 8.1. Philosophical and methodological conceptual space ...268; title: 8.1.1. Positions preferring the units of lower levels of organization ...272; title: 8.1.2. Positions accepting the reality of higher levers of realty or accepting autonomy of life sciences ...280; title: 8.2. An attempt at localizing the concept of bioplasma in the domains of ontology, epistemology, and methodology ...286; title: 8.2.1. The views of Sedlak – the preference of mechanism and reductionism. The question of monism ...287; title: 8.2.2. The views of Inyushin – antiredukcjonizm and holism ...299; title: 8.2.3. The views of Teller- vitalism and of France – reductionism ...300; title: 8.2.4. The place of the hypothesis of physical plasma in biosystems in the program of synthesis of life ...304; title: CONCLUSION ...311; title: REFERENCES ...319; title: ENGLISH SUMMARY ...345