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Table 9.3
The Bohr's principle of kinematics-dynamics complementarity
(Murdoch 1987;
Plotnitsky 2006) in action in physics and biology
Description
Static
Dynamic
Kinematics
Dynamics
1. Motions
2. Life
Bionetworks
Cell Language
Interactomes
Bionetworks
Fig. 9.4 A diagrammatic representation of the hypothesis that
cell language
is the complementary
union of
interactomes
and
bionetworks
or that interactomes and bionetworks are the complemen-
tary aspects of cell language
Bionetworks and interactomes are the complementary aspects of
life
just as kinematics and
dynamics are the complementary aspects of
motion
.
(9.4)
We may refer to Statement 9.4 as the
principle of the bionetwork-interactome
complementarity
(PBIC), the biological counterpart of the
principle of kinematics-
dynamics complementarity
in physics first articulated by N. Bohr in the 1930s
to account for the wave-particle duality of light and quantum objects in general
(Plotnitsky 2006). Statement 9.4 asserts that the
kinematics-dynamics complemen-
tarity principle
discovered in nonliving systems applies to living systems as well, or
that biology and physics are symmetric/isomorphic with respect to the principle of
the kinematics-dynamics complementarity.
It is also interesting to note that there are a set of closely related, almost synonymous
terms for each of the complementary aspects of life as indicated below bionetworks
(Ji 1997a) cannot be readily relegated either to
bionetworks
alone or to
interacrtomes
alone but comprises both these complementary aspects, leading to the conclusion that
cell language may best be viewed as the
complementary union
of bionetworks and
interactomes as depicted in Fig.
9.4
.
Bionetworks
and
interactomes
can be classified into cellular and multicellular
bionetworks and interactomes, solely based on size considerations without regard
to whether or not free energy dissipation is implicated. In addition, bionetworks
and interactomes can be divided into equilibrium and dissipative bionetworks and
interactomes solely based on energy (or force) considerations regardless of their
