Unitary Physiology

The holism of cosmology and consciousness

The greatest unsolved mystery of all is what consciousness is. Torday and Miller have hypothesized that consciousness is the homologous 'equivalent' of our physiology, behaving as our history, providing an algorithm by which evolution can determine how and why to adapt to ever-changing environmental conditions. Complicated physiology was reduced iteratively to the unicell by tracing the cell-cell signaling mechanisms that dealt with emergent threats based on Bayesian statistics. Unlike Darwinian random mutations, the current approach is predicated on structural and functional changes within the context of pre-existing physiologic traits. The cytoskeleton of the cell is a complete representation for all of the phases of life, past, present and future, controlling the Target of Rapamycin gene, which determines all of the stages of life-homeostasis, meiosis and mitosis. Viewed from this perspective, the cell remains at equipoise relative to the Singularity that existed before the Big Bang. The purpose of life is to collect epigenetic marks by pursuing energy flows, not conventional material change due to random mutations. The cytoskeleton universally controls all of the states of the cell - homeostasis, meiosis and mitosis, rendering the status of the cell relative to the prevailing circumstances. Indeed, the cytoskeleton of the cell is a central player in all of the phases of life, past, present and future. The above-described integration of physiology as the cipher for consciousness is quite ingenious as a 'top-down/bottom-up/middle-out' way of ensuring the holism of life and non-life. Recognition of the centrality of the cell has led to a number of novel insights into biology that have been represented by dogma up until now. Consequently, biology has been simplified by shifting from description to mechanism. Based on Ockam's Razor, the cellular approach to evolution is superior to Darwin.

Omni-local consciousness

We present a general discussion concerning the wholeness of what has been called infinite awareness, but here is called Omni-local consciousness. This model of consciousness has an interconnecting structure that has both local and nonlocal features, that is, the model contains local conscious human minds and locates them within an infinite (Omni) background context of consciousness. This holistic model of Omni-local consciousness is exemplified through an examination of its internal structures of meaning, evident in the exchange relations between its two polarities: local minds and nonlocal, Omni consciousness. Following David Bohm's assertion that, ‘The activity of consciousness is determined by meaning’ [10, p. 102], we propose that the content of consciousness in every circumstance is always defined by the metaphysical conditions of meaning.

Cybernetics as a conversation with the Cosmos

Norbert Wiener was the first to functionally define cybernetics as "the study of control and communication in the animal and the machine". Herein, it is shown that as a manifestation of physiology, cybernetics can be further reduced to cell-cell signaling to maintain homeostasis, bridging Newtonian 3rd Order Cybernetics with Quantum Mechanical 4th Order Cybernetics as our 'conversation with the Cosmos' based on Quantum Entanglement, constrained by non-localization. As such, cybernetics can be scientifically tested in toto from the functional to the metaphysical, rendered physical as communication for the first time. If that is correct, then the sooner we begin operating based on Quantum Mechanical principles, the sooner we will function based on predictive algorithms.