Deep Significance of the Field Concept in Contemporary Biomedical Sciences

Abstract

Since antiquity, biology has had two opposing views of life and organisms: holistic (organismic) and reductionist. In contemporary biology, the molecular reductionist approach prevails—its central entity being the gene. Organicism lingers on the margin of biology, having well-elaborated ideas but no empirical confirmation for the integrative biological entity. The latter could be found in the endogenous coherent EM field (ECEMF), since it organizes countless cellular processes, including cell's division, and through the coupling of coherence domains integrates the whole organism. A serious and thorough reconsideration of life and organisms in light of this new biological entity would have far-reaching consequences in all areas of biological science, i.e., in ontogeny, the theory of evolution, understanding and combating serious illnesses, and above all, cancer.

Keywords:

• Endogenous coherent EMF
• Morphogenetic filed
• Organicism
• Biological reductionism

Notes

¹Etymologically, the word autonomy is composed from the Greek words autos (=self) and nomos (=law, principle). Thus, we may understand the word autonomy meaning just something having its own law(s) or principle(s) of being.

²For more detail (since it is about exciplexes) see Popp, [1984a],b.