Prof. (Dr.) John S. Torday, M.D., a Developmental Physiologist from UCLA based in the United States with a keen interest in how and why physiology has evolved, participates in Risk Roundup to discuss the Singularity of Nature and evaluate whether category theory can be used as a universal modeling tool to comprehend the singularity of nature.
The Singularity of Nature
Proving the Singularity
of Nature scientifically was complicated so far. The reason behind this was the
limited knowledge and understanding we had about evolutionary biology that made it difficult to connect and merge biology with physics.
However, with the realization that biology can be traced to its very origin by
simply reducing evolutionary biology to cell-cell signaling, the barriers to understanding
science evolution have been slowly crumbling.
As a result, the ongoing reduction of biology to cellular networks and cell-cell signaling brings much promise, as it gives us an understanding of the role of quantum mechanics and allows us to empirically formulate the basis for the singularity of nature for the very first time.
Moreover, with category theory now being widely used as a universal modeling tool to resolve complex problems not only in physics, engineering, and design but also in life sciences and the human ecosystem in cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace, and space, we are getting closer to understanding complex evolutionary processes and being able to comprehend the singularity of nature.
This is especially
important because both the physical and the biological domains in the universe are
seemingly mini-singularities created by the Big Bang. Applying category theory to
the process will perhaps give us an understanding of a valid pathway for
quantum evolutionary development through cell-cell interactions.
That brings us to some essential questions:
The time is now to
discuss The Singularity of Nature using Category Theory.
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About
the Guest
Prof. Torday is a Developmental Physiologist from UCLA with a keen interest in how and why physiology has evolved. His career in lung development was launched four decades ago by the serendipitous finding that a simple molecule like cortisol could effectively accelerate fetal lung development; this phenomenon changed reproductive medicine overnight, reducing the preterm infant mortality rate from as high as 70% to nearly zero for preterm births. As a working scientist, this made no sense, but was impossible to ignore- why should hormones have anything to do with the respiratory system?
On the other hand, such
chance findings are primarily the history of biomedical research. He thinks
that such paradoxes prevail because we are using the wrong logic. He believes
that the way to make biology and medicine rational and predictive is by
reducing evolution to cell biology, as shown in his book Evolutionary Biology,
Cell-Cell Communication and Complex Disease.
Simply put, by reducing the processes of biology and evolution to the cellular level and determining how development, homeostasis, and regeneration function both within and across species phylogenetically is a level playing field for understanding the mechanisms involved in both- the trick is to reduce phenotypes of interest to the cell-molecular level, providing the insights to homology that will reveal the evolutionary strategies. Moreover, for the sake of medical education and the generation of novel evolutionary medicine research initiatives, a cell-molecular approach allows us to interface evolutionary biology and evidence-based medicine.
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Pandya (née Bhatt), the founder and chief executive officer of Risk Group LLC (www.riskgroupllc.com) is working
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to equip the global strategic security community with the tools and culture to
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and design a new security-centric operating system for the future of humanity.
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