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From Strict Determinism to Self-organization

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We start from reviewing several ubiquitous approaches to morphogenesis and argue that for a more adequate presentation of morphogenesis, they should be replaced by explanatory constructions based upon the self-organization theory (SOT). The first step on this way will be in describing morphogenetic events in terms of the symmetry theory, to distinguish the processes driven either toward increase or toward decrease of the symmetry order and to use Curie principle as a clue. We will show that the only way to combine this principle with experimental data is to conclude that morphogenesis passes via a number of instabilities. The latter, in their turn, point to the domination of nonlinear regimes. Accordingly, we come to the realm of SOT and give a survey of the dynamic modes which it provides. By discussing the physical basis of embryonic self-organization, we focus ourselves on the role of mechanical stresses. We suggest that many (although no all) morphogenetic events can be regarded as retarded relaxations of previously accumulated elastic stresses toward a restricted number of metastable energy wells.

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Notes

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    My friend, American biologist Albert Harris, liked to compare PI with a price politics in non-marked economies: The prices (equivalent to local morphologies or cell types) are appointed ad hoc, without being regulated by any mutual feedbacks.

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    A phase space is a space in which all possible states of a system are represented, with each possible state of the system corresponding to one unique point in the phase space.

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Beloussov, L.V. (2015). From Strict Determinism to Self-organization. In: Morphomechanics of Development. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13990-6_1

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