Magnus S. Magnusson
University of Iceland
Title: Biomathemaical continuum from the RNA world to protein and human mass societies : T-patterns, T-strings and self-similarly from nano to human scales
Biography
Biography: Magnus S. Magnusson
Abstract
Spatial and temporal self-similarity across more than nine orders of magnitude, based on the self-similar fractal-like pattern, called T-pattern, and giant durable T-patterned stringomes (molecular or textual) are the main focus here. The T-pattern being a natural or pseudo-fractal pattern, recurring with statistically significant translation symmetry (Magnusson et. al. eds. 2016). The T-pattern, the core of the T-system of structural concepts is a result of an ethological (i.e. biology of behavior) project started in the early 1970’s primarily on social interaction and organization in social insects and primates including humans inspired mainly by the ethological work of Lorenz, von Frisch and Tinbergen for which they shared a Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1973. Notably, in this context, their smallest subjects were social insects and thus no consideration of self-similarity. The present project has focused on developing time pattern definitions with corresponding detection algorithms resulting in the T-pattern type and the dedicated THEME software, which has allowed their abundant detection in many kinds of animal and human behavior and interactions and later in neuronal interactions within living brains (Nicol et. al.), thus showing T-patterned self-similarity of temporal interaction between and within brains. After the RNA world invented its external memory as purely informational giant T-patterned DNA strings there is only the DNA world. Then humans invented their external memory as purely informational T-patterned strings, or T-strings, of written language or texts that in a biological eye-blink, have allowed explosive development science and technology and extremely populous and complex human mass-societies, which are the only large-brained mass-societies and the recent discoveries of proteins as the nano citizens of cells (cell cities). Protein and human mass-societies seem to be the only ones using such giant T-strings external to and far more durable than their variously specialized citizens create them using various segments of their T-patterned stringomes a method not found in other mass societies such as social insect societies. Temporal and spatial self-similar patterning from nano to human scales suggest T-patterns and T-patterned stringomes as important biological organizers.