Cell & Stem Cell Research

Biography

Biography: Simon Berkovich

Abstract

Modern science resolutely rejects the longstanding belief that understanding of Life needs some ‘vital’ force besides fundamental physics concepts. However, an essential part of biological processes still cannot find a concrete physical explanation. So, physics that does not provide an explanation for biology is not just incomplete, it merely employs an incorrect paradigm. Therefore, right understanding of biology may help to straighten physics, rather than vice versa. The essence of biology lies in information processing. Likewise, it is also supposed “The physical world is made of information with energy and matter as incidentals” (John A. Wheeler). Scientific views often go in parallel with contemporary technologies; correspondingly, at different times living organisms were compared to mechanical apparatuses, hydraulic systems, clock devices, chemical factories, electrical machines, computers etc. Nowadays, the Information Revolution fosters Cloud Computing. This inspires to consider the Universe as an Internet of Things. Such kind of an arrangement is realized in the construction of Holographic Universe arising from our Cellular Automaton model of physics. Workings of interactive holography attain a clear explanation for the strangeness of quantum mechanics, particularly, for the most inconceivable property of nonlocality. Further, in contrast to quantum particles, macromolecules can acquire a content-addressable access to holographic memory, leading to the capabilities of sophisticated behavior. Thus, the Holographic Universe presents an operational framework for biological processes. Instruction sequences for biological objects include signals for information control and impacts for material actuations. Revealing a physical facility that could intervene in this process may provide a new approach to medical treatment.