Week Ten: Biophysics

I know I am a "living system" because...

I eat, drink, and sleep. My heart beats, i breath, i swallow, i walk, i feel, i sense. Does all of this make me a "living systme?" Some would argue, why, of corse it does. But this is purely biology, no? Just because my organs are working and I am walking around on two legs, does this mean that I am alive? I know that many times I have not felt very alive when I am still walking around in my body. What makes someone a "living system?" According to a doctor it might be whether or not one's heart is beating. Keeping in line with a Buddhist monk it may be the degree to which you are able to connect with your own inner Buuda nature. My interpretation is that yes, I am a living, breathing, system. Sometimes i feel more alive than others. At times I feel as though i am a walking robot, not very alive, even though my heart still continues to pump blood to all of my organs and tissues. It just depends on how one defines ALIVE.

Biophysics and me:

Biophysics is the study of biological phenomena in relation to physics. I honestly can't even say what this means to me. I know what biological phenomena usually entails, but how that relates to physics I can not say, unfortunately. I suppose i could make a reference to fractals. Things on a small level look like they do on a larger level. When I think of this I think about how the body mirrors many aspects of itself. For example, one can find the entire body imaged on the hand, foot or ear. We treat back pain, liver dysfunction, unterine tumors, and more, all in the ear. The entire body can act as a hallogram. One could treat the lips by needling around the belly button, one can treat the elbow by needling the knee, one can treat TMJ by needling along the side of the knees, and on and on. The body as a fractal, a part of the great whole, biophysics a part of physics and vice versa.