Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1487
Title: Symmetry breaking and functional incompleteness in biological systems
Authors: Korenić, Andrej 
Perović, Slobodan
Ćirković, Milan M
Miquel, Paul-Antoine
Keywords: Biosphere;Homochirality;Open systems;Phase-transitions;Symmetry breaking
Issue Date: 15-Feb-2019
Rank: M22
Journal: Progress in biophysics and molecular biology
Abstract: 
Symmetry-based explanations using symmetry breaking (SB) as the key explanatory tool have complemented and replaced traditional causal explanations in various domains of physics. The process of spontaneous SB is now a mainstay of contemporary explanatory accounts of large chunks of condensed-matter physics, quantum field theory, nonlinear dynamics, cosmology, and other disciplines. A wide range of empirical research into various phenomena related to symmetries and SB across biological scales has accumulated as well. Led by these results, we identify and explain some common features of the emergence, propagation, and cascading of SB-induced layers across the biosphere. These features are predicated on the thermodynamic openness and intrinsic functional incompleteness of the systems at stake and have not been systematically analyzed from a general philosophical and methodological perspective. We also consider possible continuity of SB across the physical and biological world and discuss the connection between Darwinism and SB-based analysis of the biosphere and its history.
URI: https://biore.bio.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1487
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2019.02.001
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