Thermodynamics 2.0 Program: Sessions and Abstracts

Mon - Wed, June 22 - June 24 , 2020 , Massachusetts, USA

Session T01: Evolution I

13:00-13:40. Monday June 22, 2020

Chair: Pier Luigi Gentili

Title: A Thermodynamic Unification of Physics and Biology

Presenter:

  • John Torday

(University of California, Los Angeles)

Bio-sketch

Professor of Pediatrics Obstetrics and Gynedology Evolutionary Medicine Geffen School of Medicine UCLA

Author(s):

  • John Torday

(University of California, Los Angeles)

Abstract:T01.W153

Abstract

A recent publication hypothesized that there is a “Singularity of Nature”[1] through which basic
thermodynamic principles can be used to reconcile physics and biology. In this way, the mission of the
IAISAE to merge the natural and social sciences becomes tractable. The protocells that populated Earth
originated from lipid-based micelles, capable of forming and deforming in response to the heat of the
Sun, still maintaining their structural integrity. This hysteretic property is the origin of the molecular
memory necessary for evolution. It is also argued that the vital relative negentropic status of the first
protocells was the consequence of the obligate equal and opposite reaction to the Big Bang based on
Newton's Third Law of Motion. It was this phenomenon that permitted the ongoing thermodynamic
coupling between the outward environment and the interior of the cell to sustain the first primitive life.
The complex cell developed out of this conjunction, fully establishing the unicellular form as the first
Niche Construction as a continuous process, whereby an organism fashions itself and its environment
concurrently. Those crucial evolutionary leaps that followed, such as endosymbiosis, are reiterations of
this established pathway, which by necessity must adhere to commencing Cosmic Laws. Evolution can
thereby be understood as the continuous process of the internalization of the environment within
thermodynamic proscriptions. Further evolutionary development represents the multicellular
augmentation of these fundamentals based on principles of cell-cell communication, which extends
across embryologic development. In this manner, multicellular cooperativity, human physiology, society
and culture all refer back to the Singularity/Big Bang as fractal iterations. This framework reconciles
with the nilpotent universal computational system of Marcer and Rowland [2]. Biological reproductive
reiterations that always refer to the zero origin of the Singularity are a 'creation operation' that 'conserves
and proofreads' to attempt to ensure the fidelity of life.
Keywords: singularity of nature; micelle; endosymbiosis; Big Bang; evolution
References:
[1] Torday, John S. "The Singularity of nature." Progress in biophysics and molecular biology 142 (2019): 23-31.
[2] Marcer, Peter J., and Peter Rowlands. "How Intelligence Evolved?." In AAAI Spring Symposium: Quantum Interaction, pp. 46-51. 2007.