Information as an Essential Component of the Biological Structures and Their Informational Organization

Abstract

In this paper it is shown that information is involved in operations, independently of their source or support, chemical, physical or mathematical ones. Particularly, it is shown that info-structuration and info-destructuration are participatory processes typically in biological organisms, which can be represented schematically as a relation between the interacting components, highlighting that the info-structuration is an information-absorbing process and info-destructuration is an info-releasing one. Moreover, functions and functionality of an organism, as a combination of multiple interacting components, are actually expressed as information. It is also shown on this basis that can be distinguished and defined seven informational systems both in the human/sub-human bodies and in the living unit, which is the eukaryotic cell. An info-circuit of a sense perception can be described in terms of typical info-communication systems, as composed by information source (captured sensation), a coder (the involved sensor), a transmission channel (nervous system in animals or pathways in the cell), the decoder (brain in human and sub-human organisms or specialized reaction in the cell) and the displaying “screen" (prefrontal cortex in the brain or sensitive interpreter in the cell). Therefore, it is deduced that a proto-consciousness could be defined not only for the human and sub-human organisms, as rudimentary as the brain circuits are less complex in comparison with the brain, but also in the cell, marked by sentient-decisional pathways/micro-circuits and genetic transcription/translation (body info-(re) structuration) and/or replication (reproduction) processes.