Physical Foundations of the Probability of Biogenesis

Summary

For biogenesis - a particular kind of systemogenesis - to occur, certain physical and informative requirements were indispensable, especially:

• (1) the selforganization of new kind of negative feed-backs supported by the trans-substantial channels of information. These were certainly at first organized only on the submolecular level, each of them consisting of many charge-transfer connections. The accomplishment of requirement (1) depends on (2) and (3): -

• (2) the organization of a sufficiently complex structure inside the agglomerated system. We should mention here the desagglomerated inorganic systems according to the archaic models: ‘A’ (Atoms) and ‘P’ (astro-Planetary systems). In these prebiotic models the selfregulation background consists of the old kind of negative feed-backs supported by the extra-substantial channels (lines of fields of opposing forces).

• (3) the availability of molecules in which the structure complexity is sufficiently high to be able to contribute to the organization of the trans-substantial channels.

Biogenesis consists of spontaneous trans-substantialization of information channels in feed-backs. The trans-substantial channels are spontaneously organized in the biotic model, but they are also present in many technical electronic models of systems constructed by man. Therefore, it is no wonder that biogenesis probably occurred at the 10^-6 m size level (compare the diameter of the microspheres of Fox and the concept of Ponnamperuma who mentions the size of the contemporary Micrococcus). Such a system position - inside the biotic unicellular sub-band (extended actually from 10 ^-6 to 10^-1 m) - is favourable for the organization of the high complexity of the structurogenic processes trajectories. It is at the nearest possible level to this region on the dimensional scale where a maximal plurality of the different joining forces exists.

This region (at 10^-7 m) may also have some implications on the other neighbouring region (on its left side on the dimensional scale) where the molecular band (10^-10 to 10^-8 m) is placed. The most complex natural molecules (for example those DNA) are in fact placed inside such a sub-band of the molecular band which is nearest to the region.

Conclusion: The phenomenon of biogenesis can be considered on the spectral plan in the following way: it was accomplished:

• (1) at the sufficiently high level for the architectural concept of cellularity to be accomplished, and at sufficiently low level for the system structure complexity to be at the highest value possible,

• (2) from the molecules situated on this ‘M’ sub-band which is relatively near to the maximal complexity region.

The question of the origin of moderate frequencies in biological rhythms is discussed here on the basis of the behaviour of the very complex biotic structure giving support to an operational network having internal inputs, through which the high frequency signals from the ‘A’ systems are passed ; external inputs, through which the low frequency signals from the delocalised structural elements of the P_Solar system are passed; and also high information treatment possibilities including the transformation of the above mentioned signals into resulting moderate frequency signals.