A revised central dogma for the 21st century: All biology is cognitive information processing

WB Miller Jr, F Baluška, AS Reber - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Crick's Central Dogma has been a foundational aspect of 20th century biology,
describing an implicit relationship governing the flow of information in biological systems in …

[HTML][HTML] Biomolecular basis of cellular consciousness via subcellular nanobrains

F Baluška, WB Miller Jr, AS Reber - International Journal of Molecular …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Cells emerged at the very beginning of life on Earth and, in fact, are coterminous with life.
They are enclosed within an excitable plasma membrane, which defines the outside and …

Reframing cognition: getting down to biological basics

P Lyon, F Keijzer, D Arendt… - … Transactions of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The premise of this two-part theme issue is simple: the cognitive sciences should join the
rest of the life sciences in how they approach the quarry within their research domain …

Cellular sentience as the primary source of biological order and evolution

F Baluška, AS Reber, WB Miller Jr - Biosystems, 2022 - Elsevier
All life is cellular, starting some 4 billion years ago with the emergence of the first cells. In
order to survive their early evolution in the face of an extremely challenging environment, the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of quantum mechanics in cognition based evolution

P Marshall - Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
In 2021 I noted that in all information-based systems we understand, Cognition creates
Code, which controls Chemical reactions. Known agents write software which controls …

Do plants pay attention? A possible phenomenological-empirical approach

AG Parise, GRA De Toledo… - Progress in Biophysics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Attention is the important ability of flexibly controlling limited cognitive resources. It ensures
that organisms engage with the activities and stimuli that are relevant to their survival …

Sentient cells as basic units of tissues, organs and organismal physiology

F Baluška, WB Miller Jr, AS Reber - The Journal of Physiology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cells evolved some 4 billion years ago, and since then the integrity of the structural and
functional continuity of cellular life has been maintained via highly conserved and ancient …

[HTML][HTML] Cellular adaptation takes advantage of atavistic regression programs during carcinogenesis

D Gnocchi, D Nikolic, RR Paparella, C Sabbà… - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Cancer can be considered the epidemic of the third millennium, and recent
projections paint a worrying scenario for the coming decades. Knowledge about the causes …

[PDF][PDF] Information in plants: The informational model of the plant cells and plant structures

F Gaiseanu - Cell Biology, 2022 - researchgate.net
The aim of this paper is to analyze and discuss the informational activity in plants, showing
the unitary functionality on the entire scale of evolution and organization. For this, it is shown …

[PDF][PDF] Information: From cognitive-sentient exploration of reality to predictive big data assisted informational era

F Gaiseanu - Romanian Journal of Information Science and …, 2023 - romjist.ro
In this article it is shown that information is a concept not only useful and used for the
communication systems and data operation, but also for the understanding of the matter non …