Quantum Interactions as Niche-Structure

摘要

In the field of systems biology, the molecular interactions constituting the life of organisms may be represented in interaction maps. The genetic interaction map is unique because it concerns only the interactions of an organism, occupying its niche, producing biological fitness. The procedure for obtaining this map can be idealised. Underlying the map for any occupied niche there must exist a temporally closed (developmental) information-processing structure, or causal plexus. This must be located within a temporally open (evolutionary) niche-structure, or causal nexus. The framework allows simplification naturally, identifying molecules and sub-molecular particles also as occupied niches. Quantum interactions are then rendered as the merging and splitting of niches, the flux determined by the entropy gradient. Across all levels of the self-similar niche-structure continuum (the causal nexus), occupied niches determine the construction of empty niches, and empty niches provide the potential for the evolution of the occupied niche-structure.