Cell & Stem Cell Research

This work explicates the physical basis of material motions in living systems. Th ese sophisticated motions combine information control and mechanical actuation. Simplistic thinking sticks to a seemingly unyielding scheme: nervous system sends control signals while the energy comes from the food. Obviously, such a trivial scheme imitates robots that efficiently employ artifi cial muscles. But how energy immediately appears in a given place and time in suitable quantities? Momentously, in our idea neural signals do not incite energy, but actually generates it from a new physical phenomenon due to neural pulses relocations. Th is elucidates the puzzling situation why nervous system utilizes moving excitations rather than simply sending electricity as through regular wiring. Actually, neuromorphic functionality is not decisive for biological information processing, as has been considered in our previous works. Th ere, the origination of biological energy is referred to [13]: Law of inertia and the primal energy in the cellular automaton universe. Th is primal energy is a driving force for otherwise unclear property of inertia not to mention the incredible NASA EM drive. Th e incoming energy per second for one cellular automaton node is given by Plank’s constant E= hν; this energy infl ux sustains the rest mass clarifying the entire meaning of E=mc2. Th is “nuclear” energy is the same as the chemical energy from moving neural pulses, but the later is millions times smaller since electronic reconfi gurations in neurons are much less extensive than corresponding nucleonic transformations in atomic structures. Th e presented discovery has broad practical consequences.