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Fig. 5.10 The cellular uncertainty principle derived from living processes represented in the five-
dimensional space, four dimensions of spacetime and one additional dimension for biological
information (Reproduced from Ji 1991, p. 121)
responsible for the other two uncertainty principles? I do not think so. Rather I think
it is more likely that these three uncertainty principles are
mutually exclusive
and
constitute special cases of a more general principle, here termed the
Universal
Uncertainty Principle
that operates in the Universe, leading to the following
assertion:
There exists a principle in this universe that manifests itself as the Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle, the Cellular Uncertainty Principle, or the Knowledge Uncertainty Principle,
depending on whether the system under consideration is the
quantum object
,
the living
cell
,or
the human brain
. (5.48)
Statement (5.48) will be referred to as the
Postulate of the Universal Uncertainty
Principle
(PUUP). As already alluded to above, the ultimate basis for the validity of
PUUP may be found in the
synthesizer theorem
and the
spectral area code
(Herbert
1987).
One utility of PUUP may be its ability to protect philosophers, literary critics,
anthropologists, journalists, artists, and others from being criticized for invoking
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
to describe “uncertain” situations/scenarios
encountered in their own fields of specializations. For example, Lindley (2008),
in his otherwise insightful and informative topic on the history of the uncertainty
principle in physics, chastised one editorialist who invoked the Heisenberg Uncer-
tainty Principle by claiming that “the more precisely the media measures individual
events in a war, the more blurry the warfare appears to the observer.” Had the
editorialist under attack invoked the PUUP instead of Heisenberg's uncertainty
principle, he would have avoided Lindley's criticism on a sound logical basis.
The Cellular Uncertainty Principle
(CUP) mentioned above is derived as follows
(Ji 1991, pp. 118-122). It is assumed that the complete characterization of life
