Biomathics

Plamen L. Simeonov, Leslie S. Smith, Andrée C. Ehresmann (eds.) Integral Biomathics: Tracing the Road to Reality. 2012.

Description of the book:

Perhaps the most distinct question in science throughout the ages has been the one of perceivable reality, treated both in physics and philosophy. Reality is acting upon us, and we, and life in general, are acting upon reality. Potentiality, found both in quantum reality and in the activity of life, plays a key role. In quantum reality observation turns potentiality into reality. Again, life computes possibilities in various ways based on past actions, and acts on the basis of these computations.

This book is about a new approach to biology (and physics, of course!). Its subtitle suggests a perpetual movement and interplay between two elusive aspects of modern science — reality/matter and potentiality/mind, between physics and biology — both captured and triggered by mathematics — to understand and explain emergence, development and life all the way up to consciousness.

But what is the real/potential difference between living and non-living matter? How does time in potentiality differ from time in reality? What we need to understand these differences is an integrative approach. This book contemplates how to encircle life to obtain a formal system, equivalent to the ones in physics. Integral Biomathics attempts to explore the interplay between reality and potentiality.

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

2013

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/progress-in-biophysics-and-molecular-biology/vol/113/issue/1

Can Biology Create a Profoundly New Mathematics and Computation?

Special Theme Issue on Integral Biomathics

Edited by Plamen L. Simeonov, Koichiro Matsuno, Robert S. Root-Bernstein

Volume 113, Issue 1, Pages 1-230 (September 2013)

2015

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/progress-in-biophysics-and-molecular-biology/vol/119/issue/3

Integral Biomathics: Life Sciences, Mathematics, and Phenomenological Philosophy

Edited by Plamen L. Simeonov, Steven M. Rosen, Arran Gare

Volume 119, Issue 3, Pages 205-734 (December 2015)

2017

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/progress-in-biophysics-and-molecular-biology/vol/131/suppl/C

Integral Biomathics 2017: The Necessary Conjunction of Western and Eastern Thought Traditions for Exploring the Nature of Mind and Life

Edited by Plamen L. Simeonov, Arran Gare, Koichiro Matsuno, Abir U. Igamberdiev

Volume 131, Pages 1-506 (December 2017)

2019

perhaps (I think)