Substance, Structure, Form and Function in the Psychosomatic Phenomenon

摘要

To explain the psychosomatic phenomenon it has been proposed on thermodynamic evidence that all biological information is eventually transmitted in terms of molecular form and that the primeval basis of mind is the informational system which results Black, 1969, 1970. Logical analysis now shows that the substance of inanimate matter always constrains its structure, which in turn constrains its form, to give the causal chain: substance→structure→form. Introducing the concept of function, the only rational causal chain which then explains the living chemistry is found to be: form→function→substance→structure. This conclusion supports the thermodynamic mod