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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, pp. 1-21.
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The possibility of an identifiable path toward a Singularity of Nature can finally be realized, after more than two millennia. It begins through our grasp of the equivalency of energy and mass (E=mc2), which unites classical and quantum physics. This remarkable insight upended physics, yet all attempts to merge biology and physics into a common overarching discipline have previously proven intractable. However, modern research now permits our tracing all of biology back to its origins by reducing evolutionary biology to cell–cell signaling in support of self-reference and self-organization. From this base, the unicellular state can be properly appraised as a continuum from genotype to phenotype in support of perpetual cellular requirements. Self-referential self-organization based on the first principles of physiology is the mechanistic explanation for the “how and why” of evolution. Its context is defined by the ambiguity inherent in the disparate entropies that govern the differences between internal and external cellular environments. This novel reduction of biology explains how cellular networks gain access to quantum principles to support cellular homeostasis. The basic quantum rules – including the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the Pauli exclusion principle, non-localization and coherence – can be shown to conjoin into the range of quantum processes that enable cellular–molecular biology. As a crucial derivative, this “common denominator” between physics and biology predicts that consciousness is the culmination of an identifiable continuum from the Singularity. From these unique insights empirical testing in support of a Singularity of Nature becomes a practical reality.