Coherence, Compartmentation and Bioenergetics in Living Matter

Abstract

In reference (Renati, 2020), Quantum Electrodynamical (QED) bases for the emergence of living matter have been reviewed and related to the “irreducible” properties displayed by biological systems (such as morphogenesis, ordered biochemistry, memory, adaptation, teleology, behaviour, and semantics in general). In this short paper a focus is given on the strict relationship between coherence, thermodynamic cycles, matter space organisation at microscopical level, and energy mobilisation in organisms. The interdependence of these aspects is so intrinsic that, we could say, they are two sides of the same coin: the existence of nested hierarchies of coherences and the space compartmentation are the conditions which allow to transfer energy packets on demand and to keep the entropy nest to nil levels.