The development of speech may have been the critical step in the development of the mind.In parallel with biological evolution,with the accumulation of gene differences,cultural evolution,the accumulation of experienc...The development of speech may have been the critical step in the development of the mind.In parallel with biological evolution,with the accumulation of gene differences,cultural evolution,the accumulation of experiences and ideas in symbolic form,began.Undoubtedly,the most significant stage of development is the development of the cerebral cortex.There are estimated one million cortical modules in each hemisphere.Sensory cells and sensory organs have well-determined centers,quasi“representative sites”in the brain;the stimuli of a sensory organ always flow into the corresponding center.The cortical projection of the main moving field is similar to the sensor field-a moving homunculus.Muscles involved in fine movements are represented over a larger area than muscles of other parts of the body.Remembering is a process of selection:only the memories that are important,interesting,significant for us are kept-the rest we forget.Speech,language,is central to the development of the ability to think and to the biological success of the human species.One of the most beautiful features of humankind is that they can live in a world of fantasy.They can imagine things they have never seen or never experienced.展开更多
In the latter decades,biomathematics played an important role in life sciences.Today,a great variety of biomathematical methods are applied in biology and medicine.Practically every mathematical procedure that is usef...In the latter decades,biomathematics played an important role in life sciences.Today,a great variety of biomathematical methods are applied in biology and medicine.Practically every mathematical procedure that is useful in physics,chemistry,engineering,and economics has also found an important application in the life sciences.At present,many life scientists are really interested in going deeply into biomathematics.Any attempt to apply biomathematics to the life systems involves three stages.Firstly,we observe the phenomena and formulate a biomathematical description in the form of a differential equation,algebraic equation,statistic comparison or whatever.We then temporarily forget the real life system and use biomathematical reasoning to solve the equation.This stage may involve inventing new biomathematics or extending what exists.Finally,we return to the real life system and interpret this solution in terms of reality;this interpretation may require experimental testing.Commonly,the most difficult stage is the first one;this is certainly so in biology and medicine at present we hardly know enough about the“laws”governing the components of life systems to write down their appropriate relationships with confidence.展开更多
Biophysics as an immense spectrum comprehended by one of the most commonly applied borderland mental process embracing from the nature,through living systems up to spiritual processes brings it along inevitable that t...Biophysics as an immense spectrum comprehended by one of the most commonly applied borderland mental process embracing from the nature,through living systems up to spiritual processes brings it along inevitable that the reader will join issue here and there with the deductions of this book but in actual fact it was just one of the goals of this work.To get hold of the biophysical view is not an easy task,because it applies mathematical apparatus to biological systems;on the other hand as a reward it guides to fascinating results,recognizing theoretically which conformity of rules are valid on principle in the Universe in the inanimate-living-spiritual triple system from the lowest to the highest organizational level.In this way one can make up the reader’s claim to consider systematically those problems arising from the various fields of science and life in the countless variety of interrelations and in their very different consequences.展开更多
文摘The development of speech may have been the critical step in the development of the mind.In parallel with biological evolution,with the accumulation of gene differences,cultural evolution,the accumulation of experiences and ideas in symbolic form,began.Undoubtedly,the most significant stage of development is the development of the cerebral cortex.There are estimated one million cortical modules in each hemisphere.Sensory cells and sensory organs have well-determined centers,quasi“representative sites”in the brain;the stimuli of a sensory organ always flow into the corresponding center.The cortical projection of the main moving field is similar to the sensor field-a moving homunculus.Muscles involved in fine movements are represented over a larger area than muscles of other parts of the body.Remembering is a process of selection:only the memories that are important,interesting,significant for us are kept-the rest we forget.Speech,language,is central to the development of the ability to think and to the biological success of the human species.One of the most beautiful features of humankind is that they can live in a world of fantasy.They can imagine things they have never seen or never experienced.
文摘In the latter decades,biomathematics played an important role in life sciences.Today,a great variety of biomathematical methods are applied in biology and medicine.Practically every mathematical procedure that is useful in physics,chemistry,engineering,and economics has also found an important application in the life sciences.At present,many life scientists are really interested in going deeply into biomathematics.Any attempt to apply biomathematics to the life systems involves three stages.Firstly,we observe the phenomena and formulate a biomathematical description in the form of a differential equation,algebraic equation,statistic comparison or whatever.We then temporarily forget the real life system and use biomathematical reasoning to solve the equation.This stage may involve inventing new biomathematics or extending what exists.Finally,we return to the real life system and interpret this solution in terms of reality;this interpretation may require experimental testing.Commonly,the most difficult stage is the first one;this is certainly so in biology and medicine at present we hardly know enough about the“laws”governing the components of life systems to write down their appropriate relationships with confidence.
文摘Biophysics as an immense spectrum comprehended by one of the most commonly applied borderland mental process embracing from the nature,through living systems up to spiritual processes brings it along inevitable that the reader will join issue here and there with the deductions of this book but in actual fact it was just one of the goals of this work.To get hold of the biophysical view is not an easy task,because it applies mathematical apparatus to biological systems;on the other hand as a reward it guides to fascinating results,recognizing theoretically which conformity of rules are valid on principle in the Universe in the inanimate-living-spiritual triple system from the lowest to the highest organizational level.In this way one can make up the reader’s claim to consider systematically those problems arising from the various fields of science and life in the countless variety of interrelations and in their very different consequences.