从"信息"到配置和意义:在生物系统中,结构是功能
Paolo Renati1,2, Pierre Madl2,3
1World Water Community, NL-3029 Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
International journal of molecular sciences
|August 14, 2025
概括
传统的数字信息概念对于生物系统来说是不够的. 生物信息是关系的,取决于秩序,需要重新定义热力学,从粒子转向生命科学中的现场观.
科学领域:
- 生命科学 生命科学
- 理论物理 理论物理
- 信息理论 信息理论
背景情况:
- 传统的科学对"信息"的理解往往是数字化和简单化的,无法捕捉到生物系统的复杂性.
- 生物系统是开放的,关系的,并以内部秩序为特征,与静态的,基于数量的信息模型形成鲜明对比.
- 现有的热力学原理,如第二原理,可能需要重新定义,以便准确地应用于生物分隔系统.
研究的目的:
- 在科学背景下挑战传统的,以数字为中心的信息观.
- 提出一种新的框架来理解生物系统中的信息,强调关系和质量而不是数量.
- 倡导生命科学中的方法转变,将量子场理论 (QFT) 的原则纳入其中.
主要方法:
- 概念分析和论证,批评现有的信息定义.
- 信息在电信中的比较 (香农定义) 与生物系统.
- 量子场理论 (QFT) 概念的应用,将生物系统作为关系过程建模.
主要成果:
- 生物信息与秩序,区分和分化密切相关,与内部相反.
- 生物系统无法通过宏观,散装状态函数充分描述,这是由于结构的分隔.
- 量子场理论的观点揭示了生物系统是动态的,取决于环境的关系过程,而不是静态的对象.
结论:
- 一个静态的,比特相关的信息概念对于理解生物系统及其环境合是不够的.
- 热力学第二原理需要重新定义,以便适用于生物系统.
- 生命科学必须从"粒子视图"过渡到"现场视图",拥抱QFT,以准确研究不可限制的生物过程.
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