Randomness and Multi-level Interactions in Biology

TL;DR

This paper explores the complex role of classical and quantum randomness in biological systems, emphasizing their interaction across multiple organizational levels and their contribution to life’s intrinsic unpredictability.

Contribution

It introduces an integrated view of classical and quantum randomness in biology, highlighting multi-level interactions and the effects of bio-resonance and bio-entanglement.

Findings

Biological randomness is essential for life phenomena.

Increasing organization leads to greater variability and disorder.

Network cooperation involves constraints from bio-resonance and bio-entanglement.

Abstract

The dynamic instability of the living systems and the "superposition" of different forms of randomness are viewed as a component of the contingently increasing organization of life along evolution. We briefly survey how classical and quantum physics define randomness differently. We then discuss why this requires, in our view, an enrichment of the understanding of the effects of their concurrent presence in biological systems' dynamics. Biological randomness is then presented as an essential component of the heterogeneous determination and intrinsic unpredictability proper to life phenomena, due to the nesting and interaction of many levels of organization. Even increasing organization itself induces growing disorder, by energy dispersal effects of course, but also by variability and differentiation. Co-operation between diverse components in networks implies at the same time the presence of constraints due to the peculiar forms of (bio-)resonance and (bio-)entanglement we discuss.