Introduction - Molecular Theory of the Living Cell - page 4

Table 1.1 The three stages of the development of human knowledge. “TOE” stands for the Theory of Everything. Examples of each field are selected from
two levels - global (or macroscopic) and local (or microscopic). Boxes labeled (3, 1), (3, 2), (6, 1), (6, 2), (9, 1), (9, 2), (12, 1), and (12, 2) are empty because
the third row of each field applies to the “Theory building” column only
Field Description Organization Theory building

Physics 1. Global Astronomy Kepler's laws Newton's laws of motion

Einstein's relativity

2. Local Atomic line spectra Lyman, Balmer, Ritz-Paschen, etc.,

series

Bohr's atomic model
Quantum mechanics

3. TOE (3, 1) (3, 2) Standard model

Superstring theory

Chemistry 4. Global Chemical reactions Chemical kinetics Thermodynamics

Transition-state theory

5. Local Molecular structures Periodic table Statistical mechanics

Electron density functional theory

6. TOE (6, 1) (6, 2) Quantum statistical mechanics (?)

Linguistics 7. Global Descriptive linguistics Chomsky's Universal Grammar (?) F. de Saussure's semiology (?)

8. Local Descriptive linguistics Grammars F. de Saussure's linguistics (?)

Lexicon

9. TOE (9, 1) (9, 2) Peirce's semiotics (Sect. 6.2 )

Biology 10. Global Behavioral biology Physiology Darwin's theory of evolution

Human genome project Human anatomy Prigogine's dissipative structure theory

Transcriptomics Cell doctrine Cell language theory

“Synthetic” stem cells Cell structure and function IDS-cell function identity hypothesis (Sects. 3.1 , 6.1.2 , 10.2 )

Reprogrammable genome

11. Local Single-molecule

mechanics

DNA double helix Molecularized second law of thermodynamics (Sect. 2.1.4 )

Genetic code Generalized Franck-Condon principle (Sect. 2.2.3 )

Metabolic pathways Conformon theory of molecular machines (Chap. 8 )

Single-molecule enzymology

12. TOE (12, 1) (12, 2) Biocybernetics (Ji 1991)

Renormalizable network Theory (Sect. 2.4 )
Microsemiotics (Sect. 6.2.4 )