speed and specificity of enzymes

[Jerry Zhu <***>]

The positional measurement is only for 1st order
autopoiesis, unicellular organism. For 2nd order or
multicellular organization with a nervous system, the
measurement is not only in position but also in
velocity. Therefore we can freeze a bacteria without
killing it but we can never be able to freeze a
organism with a nervous system since the velocity
measurement is lost.

Jerry


--- Judith Rosen <***> wrote:

> HP and JZ wrote: "The speed and specificity of
> enzymes is ______..."
> 
> Perhaps they are; I'm willing to believe that
> between the two of you, 
> the truth is somewhere in there; about the speed and
> specificity of 
> enzymes... But while this may help in applied
> sciences (like 
> pharmacology) the questions that comes to my mind
> are things like; Why 
> do enzymes exist? In natural systems, they're made
> by living 
> organisms, are they not? These are substances which
> are capable of 
> breaking apart molecules and rearranging atoms with
> other atoms into 
> new kinds of molecules-- in a particular way-- all
> without being 
> changed, themselves, if memory serves... Enzymes are
> extraordinarily 
> useful in living organisms and there are myriad
> varieties of them 
> because they are quite specific in which molecules
> each type of enzyme 
> can break apart and rearrange. The creation of
> enzymes is specified by 
> the organization of the system as a whole. So, it
> would be the 
> organizational information about enzymes that I
> would want to delve 
> into... if I were going into a research career on
> this.
> 
> Judith
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Jerry Zhu
>   To: ***
>   Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2005 9:56 PM
>   Subject: Re: [ROSEN] Why four categories of
> causation?
> 
> 
>   --- Howard Pattee wrote:
> 
>   > I have suggested that the speed and
>   > specificity of enzymes
>   > depend on the uncertainty in momenta induced by
> the
>   > recognition (positional
>   > measurements) of their substrates.
> 
>   Jerry Zhu:
> 
>   The speed and specificity of enzymes is the
> statistic
>   cause (hence undertermined) of the interlock of
>   hypercyles and the interlock of interlocks of
>   hypercycles and the interlock of the interlocks of
>   interlocks of hypercycles. New interlocks are
> formed
>   from the spin offs of hypercycles and new
> interlocks
>   of interlocks are formed from interlock spin offs.
>   Hence the spin offs or divides are positional and
>   relational. Therefore the size and speed of
> enzymes
>   are controlled by the organizational contraints of
> the
>   collective of embedded interlocks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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