The book examines basic principles of the structure and organization of living organisms and their differences from objects of inanimate nature. It covers how a single program-information structure permeates all evolutionary stages of life, including the cell, multicellular organisms and humans. The author explains how this structure is arranged and how it functions, as well as the role of the information system.
KEY FEATURES
- Reviews persistent questions and addresses fundamental themes in biology
- Provides systematic coverage
- Includes original insights into basic principles of living organization and structure
- Demonstrates the applicability of a proposed approach to particular evolutionary grades
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PREFACE
CHAPTER 1: CELL AND UNICELLULAR ORGANISMS
What is the difference between chemical laboratories in cell and in volcano?
Stochastic process and predictable program
Informational organization of living
Program parts and components
Pool of basic "production" cell programs
Programs that produce makers
Provision and energy programs
Reproducing sites
Transport programs
The main objectives of cellular programs system (CPS) and the next its important programs
Control programs
Signal programs
General cellular program and its the most important component –mitosis
Cell cycle management
Other CPS programs
External programs of unicellular organisms
Full program system of unicellular organisms. Management principles
To evolution of unicellular
Program-information cell structure
CHAPTER 2: MULTICELLULAR ORGANISMS
Socialization is general principle of structuring species community
Transition from unicellular to multicellular
Aggregate organisms
Basic social principles of cellular integration into
single structure
Program scheme of multicellular organism (MO)
Social MO structure
MO tasks and program system that solve them
Internal and external programs
Main and auxiliary task programs
Structure of MO organs and systems
Examples of internal programs
Nutrition program
Breathing programs
Immune programs
Tasks and structure
Implementation examples
Some characteristics
Transport programs
Blood supply system - basic transport system of MO
Heart
Vessel structure and types
Circulation
The main program features of blood supply system
Management programs
About humoral system
Nervous system (NS)
Neurons form NS signal chains
Signal transfer program
Returning neuron to its original state after signal transfer program
Program of signal transmission between neurons
Program to restore neuron activity
Features of neural chain links
Input sensor links
Signal processing programs run by interneurons and effector neurons
Effector neurons
About network structures formed by neurons
Memory of neural network
External program
About external nutrition program
Program space
Structure of external programs
Sensor, analytical and effector blocks of external programs
Work scheme and interaction of blocks
About possible principles of formation and inheritance of external programs
Program and information structures of multicellular
CHAPTER 3: MAN
Leap forward in evolution – emergence of human volitional programs
Social structure of human communities. Personal and collective programs
Autonomous System of Volitional Programs (ASVP)
Human social paradigm. The relationship between personal and collective
Types of collective programs
Allocation of collective programs results. ASVP management. Synchronization of personal and collective programs
About information in volitional programs
Memory
Collection, formation, processing of information
Information transfer. Communication
On structure of volitional program makers
History of mankind as evolution of volitional programs
Scientific stage in evolution of volitional programs
Applied and fundamental science
About scientific methodology
On use of space and time concepts
On aspects of time concept in program-information approach
About stochasticity at inanimate
On combating stochastic degradation in program systems
About learning
About world picture
On structure and principles of volitional programming. Basic elements and operations
Language and volitional programming
Image and symbol
About hierarchy of personal information programs
On possible schematic scenarios of stimulation and manipulative programs
Inheritance and development of unicellular and multicellular information systems in volitional programs
CHAPTER 4: PROGRAM-INFORMATION UNITY OF LIVING
Common program and information structure
The essence of cellular evolution
Cell and unicellular organisms
Makers
Program structure
Management of programs
Information network
Tasks and structure of information programs
Definition of information system
Complete system of unicellular programs
About cellular evolution
Multicellular organisms
Structure of multicellular organism
Tasks of MO programs
Management of MO programs.
Nervous system
Features of information system
Memorizing and learning
Improvement of external programs at the highest MO representatives
Man
Brain evolution and hand motility –basis of Homo Programming appearance
Social nature of human communities. ASVP occurrence
Personal and collective volitional programs
Social allocation of ASVP resources
Management in ASVP
Coordination and synchronization of programs
Types of management regulatory programs
History as evolution of volitional programs
Role of science
Scientific method from the standpoint of the program approach
About world picture
On mechanism of volitional programming
About features of volitional information system
Evolution and program approach
PROVISIONS OF THE PROGRAM APPROACH
LITERATURE
Biography
Vitaly Shubin is a physicist and leading researcher at the P. N. Lebedev Physics Institute Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 papers and has several dozen patents. His physics research has focused on the "avalanche process" under negative feedback conditions in semiconductors and implementation of multicell solid-state photomultipliers combining single-photon sensitivity with analog mode of operation. The devices based on this technology are produced by many companies and widely distributed in various detection systems of biomed, nuclear physics and technology, environmental monitoring. For the last two decades, Dr Shubin has also studied molecular biology and biology of organisms to understand and isolate the main differences in the structure and organization of interaction between bodies and objects in living and non-living nature.