Living Organism: A Review
Holistic physiology describes an organism as an object with a holistic control. That is why it must identify quantities and relations what are usual e.g. in a human organism as a typical and the most explored representative of holistic objects. A certain problem consists in the fact that his understanding is not yet finally formalized and closed. As a basis of this holistic approach there are quantities reflecting satisfaction, successfulness and consciousness on the highest level of the structure of control. An object exists to such a measure to what its elements – its building stones – don’t have tendency to leave it. By other words to what they are satisfied inside. An aim of the object to maximize its existence is a substance of relations in its structure of control. In some cases, elements can’t simply leave it, as it is the case e.g. in the organism. Here is then a general criterion to leave on a lower level. Thus, not of cells but of water. Certain information can be also extract from the tendency to leave partial structures, not the object as whole. On the top and on the beginning of the scheme of control is a control of the satisfaction of the organism. It goes about a global satisfaction of the object as whole what is derived from satisfaction of its elements, from “society“ of cells. It evaluates the tendency of elements of the object to leave it. Once it identifies an event what earlier was associated with a critical level of this tendency it starts the process of control. Its goal is to correct arisen or only menacing situation in the global satisfaction. This correction happens on a basis of consciousness what is an aggregation of distribution of tension, what means of unexpected differences in successfulness of groups of elements. The consciousness of the organism thus represents the global tension where the aggregation arises on a basis of last experiences with meaning of individual tensions. In cooperation with global successfulness of the organism – a feedback from the environment – the border of the cell is controlled and thus the environment is influenced in a desirable manner. In parallel there is a control of successfulness of elements having as a goal their balancing. And at the same time a systemic elimination of unsuccessful elements. These are quite uninvolved cells. A level of successfulness of a cell is given by a level of its involvement e.g. through intercellular channels into surrounding structures. A holistic structure is studied and presented through a structural model of events.
Martin Vlcek*
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