The Common Extremalities in Biology and Physics

Preface1. Extreme Energy Dissipation1.1. Hierarchy of the Energy Transformation1.2. Extreme Properties of Energy Dissipation1.3. Optimal-Control-Based Framework for Dissipative Chemical Kinetics1.4. Conclusions2. Some General Optimal Control Problems Useful for Biokinetics2.1. Extreme Dissipation, Optimal Control, and the Least Action Principle2.2. Some One-Dimensional Examples of Biokinetics and Optimal Control2.3. General Multidimensional Examples of the Introduction of Optimal Control into Biokinetics2.4. Conclusions3. Variational and the Optimal Control Models in Biokinetics3.1. Optimal Control Model of Binding Cooperativity3.2. Enzyme Kinetics and Optimal Control3.3. Optimal Control, Variational Methods, and Multienzymatic Kinetics3.4. Optimal Control in Hierarchical Biological Systems: Organism and Metabolic Hierarchy4. Extreme Character of Evolution in Trophic Pyramid of Biological Systems and the Maximum Energy Dissipation/Least Action Principle4.1. Acceleration of Dissipation in Molecular Processes is the Cause of Emergence of Trophic Pyramid of Biological Systems4.2. Maximum Energy Dissipation Principle and Evolution of Biological Systems4.3. The Pinnacle of Trophic Pyramid of Biological Systems—Symbiosis of Biological and Nonbiological Accelerating Loops: Technological Accelerating Loop5. Phenomenological Cost and Penalty Interpretation of the Lagrange Formalism in Physics5.1. Fusing Mechanics and Optimal Control5.2. Finiteness of the Propagation Velocity of Physical Interactions and Physical Penalty5.3. Phenomenology of the Nonmechanical Penalty for Free Fields5.4. Internal Symmetry of the Physical Penalty5.5. Physical Interactions and Penalty5.6. Physical Evolution in Light of Maximum Energy Dissipation Principle5.7. Conclusion: Physical Phenomena from the Point of View of Biological Ones6. Conceptual Aspects of the Common Extrema in Biology and Physics6.1. Self-Sufficiency of Extreme Transformations6.2. Intensive and Extensive Property of Displaying of Material Instability6.3. Natural and Biotic Things—Lethal Gap or Irrational Compromise Main Conclusions and Remaining Questions