Mikhail Gromov on Mathematical Description of Biological Structures


 
1:27:38 Boundary conditions defined in terms of thermodynamic properties. Also at 13:54 and 19:58 and 47:17 (high frequency vibration in protein molecules) in this lecture:
 

5:42 Prokaryotic orgnisms were very busy for those first two billion years evolving the cellular metabolic pathways, but there is no fossil evidence of this until the eukaryotic cells appeared. They should still get some credit for the work though, because it was quite significant.

23:34 Quantum mechanics defines the quantum state in terms of the boundary conditions. The Born rule forbids a unitary dynamical explanation of those conditions. 

35:31 Setting up an electronic circuit to activate a solenoid on a certain sequence of button presses is putting an interpretation on a physical system as representing the transfer of that information from the operator to the machine. See John Searle - Syntax is Observer-Relative. It is not the information that is causing the door to open! See Why is Physics So Difficult?

1:21:06 On non-canonical definitions of universal computation and the lack of rigour in mathematical logic.

1:45:06 Actually if you look at it carefully then force in physics is not that different from the force of selection pressure in evolution. Force in physics is the selection of the boundary conditions and it has as much to do with the individual particles as fitness has to do with individuals of a species. cf the dynamical explanation of boundary conditions above. Just think about the thermal forces acting on the particles of a mass falling under gravity.

7:35 Kinetic energy joke.

1:02:46 Energetic difference of chemical bonds between ammonia and nitrogen and the Haber process.  

1:44:11 Information again. I think he is making a mistake. See Searle on Consciousness.

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