The Physical Matrix for Self-Organisation

Abstract

Living organisms constitute the most outstanding example of self organisation. They are truely exceptional. Several views of self organisation which have been emerging in the last few decades have provided some conceptual models (1), and have even led to experiments in order to test their applicability to biological systems. However, the mass, the solidity and viscosity of organs and their components would seem to suggest that these schools of thinking, many of which require Navier-Stokes fluid would offer all but a partial explanation. Some models for oscillatory phenomena, information transfer, immune response, enzyme activity, muscle contractions have been offered. But for a more general description which will be in consonence with most of the observables in living systems like influence of radiation, density fluctuations, specificity of interaction, morphogenesis, an alternate approach is to be conceived. With this end in view the concept of “living matter” is proposed. A semi-qualitative account of this state, the living State, based on interacting bosons of diverse kinds is submitted.