6 - Conceptual Aspects of the Common Extrema in Biology and Physics

Abstract

Physical and biological evolutions acquire obvious penalty energy touch: emergence, existence, and destruction of material systems are only the material forms of the extreme utilization and elimination of instability, and they may be the last material consumption forms of these imperfect systems. The applicability of the maximum energy dissipation principle as a special form of the least action principle, which uses the optimal control and variation methods in the conceptual and technical unification of biology and physics, mechanics and biological kinetics, and also physical and biological evolution, shows universal strength of the extreme penalty-and-energy interpretation of the laws in these quite opposite fields. As a result of this interpretation and of the ideological penetration of biology into physics, an important conclusion follows through the penalty treatment of the least action principle: instability and its intensive penalty evaluation—energy strives to equilibrium and stability in an extremely rapid way. Such a general conclusion doubtlessly requires more comprehensive consideration that perhaps cannot be done separately only in physics or only in biology.