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Relations between our cells and bodies as an example of lower-level - upper-level structures

Our bodies are structures constructed by the cells inside them. The cells construct the bodies as a shelter for themselves, to ensure them a better life-condition.

Your friend is ill and has fever. To monitor and control his fever you have attached a digital thermometer to his arm and watch it continually. To relieve and relax him, you have planned a picnic on the lawns beside a forest. You have had a good lunch and your stomachs are full. The blood in your body is concentrated in your digestive system and you feel very relaxed. You inspect the thermometer on your friend’s arm and see that it is still high, reading 39ºC.   At this moment, you see a bear at the edge of the forest coming towards you. The energy in your cells are getting down.

Figure 1: Hypothalamus-Pitiutary-Adrenal = HPA- Axis in our bodies. (From Lipton (2005)) 

Awareness of a big threat causes the “Hypothalamus-Pitiutary-Adrenal = HPA- Axis” to take the initiative (Figure 1). Cells of the hypothalamus arouse the pituitary-cells to send alarm-signals and they dispatch ‘adrenocorticotropic hormones (ACTH)’ to the blood-system (Meerloo 1957, Englert 2003, Lipton 2005). On receiving this alarm-signal, the adrenal glands send stress hormones into the body to instigate a fight or flight response. All of the blood allotted to the digestive system is withdrawn and directed to the brain and limbs, which are the most vital parts of the body at this instant. At this moment, you glimpse the thermometer attached to your friend’s arm and realize that it shows 37ºC. How could his body temperature drop so suddenly from 39ºC to 37ºC?

  Cells of a body are aware when the body they have constructed is in great danger. In this instance, the brain must make a decision about whether to continue digestion or to address the greater threat; it will do your body no good to control bacteria in the digestive tract if you let a bear maul you. Therefore, a signal is sent to the thymus gland to “suppress the immune system” and not use any energy. When all immunologic actions are suspended, body temperature returns to its normal value (Lipton 2005). When threatened, the components of our bodies (our cells) claim possession of the whole.

To illustrate the mechanism of information development and storage, let us look at a specific human behaviour.  When we are learning something, we require considerable time and we become stressed. For example, when we learn to drive a car we have to master five different operations in a coordinated manner: gas pedal, clutch pedal, brake pedal, steering wheel and gear-shift. It takes a great deal of effort and time to accomplish this. When we consider the many thousands of factors our cells have to master during a procedure, then we must confess that our efforts are negligible in comparison to the efforts of our cells. When we finally learn how to drive, then we can use the car without feeling stressed. Our cells have made the appropriate synaptic arrangements and the learning process is accomplished. This shows that our cells can adjust their internal interactions to accommodate our bodies to changes in our environment. To enable them to accomplish this accommodation procedure, we must put ourselves through considerable stress; otherwise the cells do not make the appropriate synaptic arrangements. For each new learning process a new synaptic configuration plus a new protein synthesis is accomplished. Consequently, our cells do much more work than we do. Learning is a necessary process for us to accommodate changes in our environment. Information gathered by the learning processes is stored in structural and textural compositional changes of the components, as seen in the case of cells. All actions that occur often and have some regularity are tagged as a special signal and stored as certain stabilized protein-structures and synapses (Kandel 2001).

As seen, the owners of our bodies are its cells. Now the question: Is this valid throughout nature?

The theory of integrative levels (Feibleman 1954) gives the answer:

►Complexity of the levels increases upward.

►Each level organizes the level or levels below it plus one emergent quality.

►In any organisation, the lower level is directed by the higher.

►In any organisation, the higher level depends upon the lower.

►For an organisation at any given level, its mechanism lies at the level below and its purpose at the level above.

►A disturbance introduced into an organisation at any one level reverberates at all the levels it covers.

This conclusion is further supported by the “exponential nature of information development” (Gedik 2006 and 2008). (See Supplement)

Consequently, all beings in nature are dependent on their components, because all beings are dependent on energy, and energy has its source in the quantum domain.   

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