Sentences with phrase «governed by chemical»

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For example, Michael Polanyi has written that living organisms contain and transmit information, which in principle can not be explained solely by reference to the laws that govern its physical and chemical embodiment.

With Leibniz, Hartshorne maintains that some organisms are governed by a «dominant entelechy» that serves as a center of perception and activity (Monadology # 70); other organisms, and all inorganic wholes (e.g. chemical compounds and minerals), have insufficient organizational complexity to act or feel «as one.

Today, the question has been taken up by cognitive scientists who want to link facial expressions to emotions in order to track the genes, chemicals, and neural pathways that govern emotion in the brain.

Essentially every process in our bodies is governed by a complex network of signaling chemicals.

Ocean pH is not governed by physico - chemical rules.

On small length scales (diffusive boundary layer ≤ 10 ^ -2 m) where the transport or the supply of chemical substances is not governed by advection or turbulent mixing (Lazier and Mann, 1989), chemical conversion and diffusion are the dominant mechanisms.»