Monday, July 22, 2013

biophysics week 1

  • I know I’m a “living system” because……. 
Our bodies are an incredible collaboration of molecular interplay.  All parts are inherent to the functioning of the whole.  It is this interplay that makes us a living system.  Oxygen brings in our life force.  A living system is also one that depends on its environment in order to exist.  Without the earth and its structure that supports life, we would cease to exist.

  • Biophysics and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Biophysics seems to correlate to Chinese Medicine more than physics did.  
Living systems rely the relationship between living beings and the environment.  Both need each other in order to exist.  TCM uses this in its approach to health.  We cannot separate ourselves from our environment.  It effects us both internally and externally.  Physics says that, "energy is not created or destroyed, it is transformed".  This also relates to how Chinese Medicine works with healing.  Energy is transformed from different states of disharmony to balance.  
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  1. JasonJuly 23, 2013 at 4:25 PM

    I think your definition of a living system is one of the best ones I've heard so far! But then... it seems to exclude self-contained systems (like ecosystems) which can be considered a living system but don't interact with an environment outside themselves... or at least, not regularly.

    Perhaps we can expand your idea to say a living system is one where its components interact and exchange energy with each other. What are your thoughts on that?

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