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Microvita and Morphogenetic Fields
by Dr. Hans-Joachim Rudolph, Microvita Research e.V.
In Part VIII we concluded that for the designation of the origin of viral diseases, “the better
term will be microvitum, and not virus“. Now, we will try to extend this statement to the
origin of organic life in general. But how?
Life arose on planet Earth through five hierarchical stages of increasing molecular
complexity: cosmic, geologic, chemical, information, and biological. (1)
In the cosmic stage, the building blocks of life were formed as a byproduct of a nearby
supernova explosion. The material was expelled across space to form interstellar clouds,
which are factories of organic molecular synthesis. During the formation of the Solar
System, this interstellar material was integrated into interstellar dusts, comets and
carbonaceous asteroids, which heavily bombarded the newly formed crust of our planet.
In the geologic stage, nucleobases were polymerized into RNA in terrestrial environments
such as warm little ponds or crater lakes. Also, fatty acids readily formed membranous
vesicles when dispersed in terrestrial aqueous phases.
In the chemical stage, the mixing and recombination of organic molecules occurred within
these primitive cell membranes. Empty lipid membranes began to encapsulate various
monomers and polymers for molecular symbiosis.
In the information stage, programmed protein synthesis became available in the prebiotic
system and the peptide/RNA world gave rise to the protein/RNA world. A wide range of
protein enzymes and structural proteins were synthesized at this stage by translating
genetic codes. Some of these enzymes catalyzed more and more complex biochemical
reactions. (1)
Viruses can be defined as capsid-encoding organisms. In early stages, primordial viruses
probably established a long-term association with protocells, in which the latter released
a steady stream of viral particles over an extended period of time, benefiting both host
and parasite in symbiosis. These ancient RNA viruses had a high mutation rate and
underwent evolution and natural selection, just like cellular life. (1)
Traditionally we maintain the ‘cell-first’ hypotheses. In that case viruses are considered to
be parasites, which have no own life. Rather they are practically as dead as crystalline
chemicals.
The new line of thought is, however, that eukaryotic cells evolved from primordial viruses,
where such viruses are not to be identified with the virions, but with protocells, endowed
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with a single-stranded RNA only. In the most archaic case, they would also be devoid of
ribosomes (2), having nothing but a lipid membrane, a cytosol enriched with various
monomers and polymers, and a translation machine using the GNC code - which is
enough to allow for a ‘virus first’ hypothesis.
Accordingly, Jean-Michel Claverie writes in ‘Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution’
(Genome Biology, Volume 7, Issue 6, 2006):
For a viral organism, the virus factory exhibits all the properties of the soma, in which
genes are expressed, while the particle state corresponds to the germline, which remains
unchanged. If we follow this line of thought, one might think of infection as being
analogous with fertilization and the production of new virus particles as being akin to the
formation of gametes. (3)
In this form, viruses are very much different from crystalline chemicals! They would live
and replicate, and there would be sufficient scope for microvita to act upon the organic
material: The formation of a lipid membrane as well as the folding of proteins and transferRNA might occur due to “self-assembly“ in consequence of van der Waals forces. But the
formation of virions requires more than that, and in my opinion it needs morphogenetic
fields to produce such structures.
So, the question is, how microvita could provide morphogenetic fields?
Basically, the process has been mentioned already in part VII: The key words are ordered
water, corticons, bosonic quasiparticles. (4) The latter can be produced and annihilated by
microvita.
Regarding their visibility, I expect that it should be possible to display patterns of ordered
water and even single corticons by a sophisticated microscope of the future. To make it
more practical, you might have a look at these demonstrations:
Chladni Plates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRFysSAxWxI)
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But how is this related to what I said before? The analogies are summarized in Table 1:
Chladni Plates
Protocells
The metal plates
Tiny spheres confined with a lipid membrane and
filled with a gel-like substance
Patterns on the plates
Morphogenetic fields
The powder on the plates
Water dipoles, earlier described as ordered water
The vibration of the metal plates Collective excitations of the water rotational field
The fiddlestick
Release of corticons
The fiddler’s hand
Acting Principle in P.R. Sarkar’s Four Chamber Model
= microvita
The metal plates relate to tiny spheres confined with a lipid membrane and filled with a
gel-like substance.
The patterns on the plates relate to the morphogenetic fields.
The powder on the plates relates to the water dipoles, earlier described as ordered water,
which is unstable in bulk water, but becomes stable in microspaces like those provided
by a gel-like substance (=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_roll_fold).
The vibrations of the metal plates relate to the collective excitations of the water rotational
field.
The fiddlestick relates to the release of corticons, which are controlled by microvita (the
fiddler’s hand).
Finally, the fiddler’s hand relates to the Acting Principle of P.R. Sarkar’s Four Chamber
Model.
In conlusion, primordial messenger-RNA-viruses (as defined by Bandea and Claverie) can
indeed be understood as the first forms of biological life on planet Earth - and regarding
their origin, “the better term will be microvitum, and not virus“!
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References:
(1) Sankar Chatterjee: The Protein/RNA World and the Origin of Life, Preprints,
2019100167 (2019)
(2) Sankar Chatterjee, Surya Yadav: The Origin of Prebiotic Information System in the
Peptide/RNA World: A Simulation Model of the Evolution of Translation and the Genetic
Code. Life, Volume 9, Issue 25 (2019)
(3) Jean-Michel Claverie: Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution. Genome Biology,
Volume 7, Issue 6 (2006)
(4) Mari Jibu, Kunio Yasue: Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An
Introduction. Advances in Consciousness Research, Volume 3 (1995)
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Microvita and the Morphogenetic Fields
by Dr. Hans-Joachim Rudolph, Microvita Research e.V.
In Part VIII we concluded that for the designation of the origin of viral diseases, “the better
term will be microvitum, and not virus“. Now, we will try to extend this statement to the
origin of organic life in general. But how?
Life arose on planet Earth through five hierarchical stages of increasing molecular
complexity: cosmic, geologic, chemical, information, and biological. (1)
In the cosmic stage, the building blocks of life were formed as a byproduct of a nearby
supernova explosion. The material was expelled across space to form interstellar clouds,
which are factories of organic molecular synthesis. During the formation of the Solar
System, this interstellar material was integrated into interstellar dusts, comets and
carbonaceous asteroids, which heavily bombarded the newly formed crust of our planet.
In the geologic stage, nucleobases were polymerized into RNA in terrestrial environments
such as warm little ponds or crater lakes. Also, fatty acids readily formed membranous
vesicles when dispersed in terrestrial aqueous phases.
In the chemical stage, the mixing and recombination of organic molecules occurred within
these primitive cell membranes. Empty lipid membranes began to encapsulate various
monomers and polymers for molecular symbiosis.
In the information stage, programmed protein synthesis became available in the prebiotic
system and the peptide/RNA world gave rise to the protein/RNA world. A wide range of
protein enzymes and structural proteins were synthesized at this stage by translating
genetic codes. Some of these enzymes catalyzed more and more complex biochemical
reactions. (1)
Viruses can be defined as capsid-encoding organisms. In early stages, primordial viruses
probably established a long-term association with protocells, in which the latter released
a steady stream of viral particles over an extended period of time, benefiting both host
and parasite in symbiosis. These ancient RNA viruses had a high mutation rate and
underwent evolution and natural selection, just like cellular life. (1)
Traditionally we maintain the ‘cell-first’ hypotheses. In that case viruses are considered to
be parasites, which have no own life. Rather they are practically as dead as crystalline
chemicals.
The new line of thought is, however, that eukaryotic cells evolved from primordial viruses,
where such viruses are not to be identified with the virions, but with protocells, endowed
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with a single-stranded RNA only. In the most archaic case, they would also be devoid of
ribosomes (2), having nothing but a lipid membrane, a cytosol enriched with various
monomers and polymers, and a translation machine using the GNC code - which is
enough to allow for a ‘virus first’ hypothesis.
Accordingly, Jean-Michel Claverie writes in ‘Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution’
(Genome Biology, Volume 7, Issue 6, 2006):
For a viral organism, the virus factory exhibits all the properties of the soma, in which
genes are expressed, while the particle state corresponds to the germline, which remains
unchanged. If we follow this line of thought, one might think of infection as being
analogous with fertilization and the production of new virus particles as being akin to the
formation of gametes. (3)
In this form, viruses are very much different from crystalline chemicals! They would live
and replicate, and there would be sufficient scope for microvita to act upon the organic
material: The formation of a lipid membrane as well as the folding of proteins and transferRNA might occur due to “self-assembly“ in consequence of van der Waals forces. But the
formation of virions requires more than that, and in my opinion it needs morphogenetic
fields to produce such structures.
So, the question is, how microvita could provide morphogenetic fields?
Basically, the process has been mentioned already in part VII: The key words are ordered
water, corticons, bosonic quasiparticles. (4) The latter can be produced and annihilated by
microvita.
Regarding their visibility, I expect that it should be possible to display patterns of ordered
water and even single corticons by a sophisticated microscope of the future. To make it
more practical, you might have a look at these demonstrations:
Chladni Plates (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRFysSAxWxI)
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But how is this related to what I said before? The analogies are summarized in Table 1:
Chladni Plates
Protocells
The metal plates
Tiny spheres confined with a lipid membrane and
filled with a gel-like substance
Patterns on the plates
Morphogenetic fields
The powder on the plates
Water dipoles, earlier described as ordered water
The vibration of the metal plates Collective excitations of the water rotational field
The fiddlestick
Release of corticons
The fiddler’s hand
Acting Principle in P.R. Sarkar’s Four Chamber Model
= microvita
The metal plates relate to tiny spheres confined with a lipid membrane and filled with a
gel-like substance.
The patterns on the plates relate to the morphogenetic fields.
The powder on the plates relates to the water dipoles, earlier described as ordered water,
which is unstable in bulk water, but becomes stable in microspaces like those provided
by a gel-like substance (=> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelly_roll_fold).
The vibrations of the metal plates relate to the collective excitations of the water rotational
field.
The fiddlestick relates to the release of corticons, which are controlled by microvita (the
fiddler’s hand).
Finally, the fiddler’s hand relates to the Acting Principle of P.R. Sarkar’s Four Chamber
Model.
In conlusion, primordial messenger-RNA-viruses (as defined by Bandea and Claverie) can
indeed be understood as the first forms of biological life on planet Earth - and regarding
their origin, “the better term will be microvitum, and not virus“!
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References:
(1) Sankar Chatterjee: The Protein/RNA World and the Origin of Life, Preprints,
2019100167 (2019)
(2) Sankar Chatterjee, Surya Yadav: The Origin of Prebiotic Information System in the
Peptide/RNA World: A Simulation Model of the Evolution of Translation and the Genetic
Code. Life, Volume 9, Issue 25 (2019)
(3) Jean-Michel Claverie: Viruses take center stage in cellular evolution. Genome Biology,
Volume 7, Issue 6 (2006)
(4) Mari Jibu, Kunio Yasue: Quantum Brain Dynamics and Consciousness: An
Introduction. Advances in Consciousness Research, Volume 3 (1995)