发表机构
De Montfort University（德蒙福特大学）
机构由 AI 辅助整理，请以论文原文为准。AI 中文总结
该研究基于最大能量耗散原理，提出生物系统通过合作共生形成新组织层次，加速全球自由能耗散并拓宽能量来源。
AI 中文摘要
从最大能量耗散原理的角度，讨论了一个从自催化过程到社会技术系统的普遍演化方案。该方案将生物系统的出现视为全球自由能耗散加速的初始阶段。研究提出了生物组织在性质上新的层次（生物细胞、多细胞生物、社会系统）的相继出现，这些层次被认为是前一层级耗散系统合作（共生）的结果。合作/共生为发展下一个本质上新的能量耗散层次提供了足够的复杂性，从而带来自由能利用的新形式和信息映射的新形式。从热力学角度看，生物组织的每一个性质上新的层次都提供了额外的一步，以增加从性质上新的来源耗散能量的速率，本质上拓宽了参与利用的这些来源的数量。
英文摘要
A general scheme of evolution from autocatalytic processes to socio-technological system is discussed from the perspective of maximum energy dissipation principle. The scheme treats the emergence of biological systems as an initial stage in the acceleration of global free energy dissipation. The sequential emergence of qualitatively new levels of organisation (biological cell, multicellular organism, social system) has been proposed, the levels are suggested as the results of cooperation (symbiosis) of the dissipative systems at the previous levels. The cooperation/symbiosis provides sufficient complexity for development of the next, essentially a new level of energy dissipation, leading to a new form of free energy utilization and a new form of information mapping. From a thermodynamic perspective, every qualitatively new level of biological organisation provides an additional step to increase the rate of energy dissipation from qualitatively new sources, essentially widening the number of these sources involved in the utilization.
Journal ref12th Joint European Thermodynamics Conference, Brescia, July 1-5, 2013
