Chapter 9: On Cellular Cooperativity as the Basis for Moral Behavior Check Access
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Published:26 Nov 2020
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Special Collection: 2020 ebook collection
The Singularity of Nature: A Convergence of Biology, Chemistry and Physics, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2020, ch. 9, pp. 82-91.
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There is an integral relationship between physics, chemistry and biology, beginning with the formation of the first cell, derived from the lipids delivered by snowball-like asteroids during the formation of Earth's oceans. Since homeostasis is a dynamic process that acts around relative set-points, and is not itself fixed, it can be thought that this could be the very beginning of free will, which becomes its own form in human expression. Moral behavior is conventionally founded on religious precepts, made secular by humanistic principles and societal laws. In this chapter, it is stipulated that moral behavior can be reasonably founded on fundamental biologic principles that derive from universal natural laws.