Orgons and biolons in theoretical biology: phenomenological analysis and quantum analogies.
In this paper we define two types of formal biological entities corresponding to biological levels of organization, the biolons and the orgons, the properties of which are phenomenologically analyzed and discussed. We examine then, in a rather speculative manner, how some characteristics of these entities may suggest analogies between properties of biological systems and some special features of quantum systems. These analogies are principally related to the specific roles played by these entities (relatively to matter-energy, for orgons, and to information, for biolons) in a biological system. They are funded on the formal equivalence between the temporal variations associated to the development of the orgons and the biolons, respectively, and the statistical distribution over the available energy levels of the two main types of quantum entities, the fermions and the bosons (the former being associated to the constitution of matter and the latter to the effects of interactions). This formal comparison leads us to put into correspondences the developmental duration in biological systems with the energetic structuration in quantum ones and the related characteristic times of the former with the temperature of the latter. We discuss briefly these correspondences.
Bailly
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Laboratoire de Physique des Solides de Bellevue, CNRS, Meudon Cedex.
Gaill
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Mosseri
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D000818:Animals; D006339:Heart Rate; D008322:Mammals; D008954:Models, Biological; D010507:Periodicity; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012119:Respiration