Principles Of Information Exchange In A Living Organism

The sources of originating activity and self-movement should be traced to the phenomenon reflecting the influence of the environment, that is in open systems. Activity and self-movement are caused by the object?s variables deviating form normal values when the object interacts with the surroundings. It is the deviation that is responsible for its reflection, information and feedback which in the long run from loops of information circulation producing functional systems.

According to the research, the space-time structure of outer macrocosm, through a number of continuously recurrent forces, has transformed into chemical continuum of molecular microcosm of living beings and contributed to the conversion of chemical structures to functional ones.

The conformities of higher levels of matter development one way or another comprise the conformities of lower levels but are not by any means reduced to them. So it proved to be unfounded to account for all forms of development (motion) by mechanical phenomena and for all conformities to natural laws by physical or physicochemical phenomena. The most common manifestation of evolution is in steadfast information accumulation and its increased use.

Information is a negation of entropy; it is communication and association in the course of them indeterminateness gets eliminated; as a matter of fact, it is reflected diversity. According to the theory of entropy logic, quantity of information, like quantity of matter or energy, proves to be one of the fundamental characteristics of natural phenomena and entropy proves to be a measure of information quantity.

Animate or inanimate matter consists of the same elements of Mendeleyev?s Periodic Table of elements. In distinguishing between animate and inanimate matter the most important thing is a type of structure, provided the corresponding structure has a certain function. Transition from life to death is possible only for animate matter with the conservation of the existing structure but with the interruption of life securing functions.

Among common properties of animate tatter is the ability to reproduce itself. However, the main distinctive feature is an individual information monitoring structure with every living organism so long as self-reproduction is not possible without genetic transmission of information and development programs.

It is common knowledge now that the interaction of external stimull with living substance takes place on a cell level. The minimum volume of information that is needed to perform all the functions inherent to the cell should not be less than 1023 -1025 bits. However, this does not correspond to the information possibilities of the cell nucleus which do not exceed 1010 bits. The paradox – an enormous volume of information that the cell nucleus is not able to accommodate and global ?being in the know? of every cell about what is going on in the organism – leads to the suggestion that there exist and function peculiar information complexes. Developing this conception brings us to the conclusion that there are information – monitoring complexes of biostructures, the bioobject as a whole, the noosphere (biosphere) of our planet and so on, ecumenically.

Answers to the question about the capabilities and means of outside information influence on bioobjects and on man in particular lie in the right understanding of the control mechanism as a specifically organized form of matter motion, as a mechanism realizing the program of development and functioning of the human body, as a process of information synthesis and hierarchy of this process.