Biological Extension of the Action Principle: Endpoint Determination beyond the Quantum Level and the Ultimate Physical Roots of Consciousness

TL;DR

This paper proposes a biological extension of the action principle, suggesting that endpoint selection in physical systems parallels biological behavior and introduces a new fundamental principle of biology with broad applications.

Contribution

It introduces the first mathematical formulation of a biological action principle based on endpoint selection, linking physical laws to biological processes and consciousness.

Findings

Endpoint selection in the action principle correlates with biological behavior

The biological action principle provides a new foundational framework for understanding life processes

Applications of the principle have primary significance in biology and consciousness studies

Abstract

We show that when we endow the action principle with the overlooked possibility to allow endpoint selection, it gains an enormous additional power, which, perhaps surprisingly, directly corresponds to biological behavior. The biological version of the least action principle is the most action principle. For the first time, we formulate here the first principle of biology in a mathematical form and present some of its applications of primary importance.