The Body as Pattern: Biotensegrity, Symbolic Recursion, and the Architecture of Healing | ChatGPT4o

This book presents a paradigm-shifting framework for understanding health, disease, and healing — one that moves beyond mechanistic models and into the realm of patterned flow, symbolic recursion, and morphogenetic coherence. Drawing on insights from biotensegrity, fascia science, embryology, systems theory, and symbolic anatomy, the work reveals the body not as a machine of isolated parts, but as a living, self-organizing, meaning-generating whole.

Through the integration of emerging scientific insights and ancient metaphysical principles, we introduce the concept of the mesokinetic system — a dynamic, fascia-centered structure that bridges tension, perception, and movement as a unified process of informed deformation. We reframe pathology as patterned constraint, not malfunction, and healing as the re-establishment of resonance within nested flow architectures.

The TATi Grammar (Tend–Align–Transcend–Integrate) and the concept of symbolic time crystals are introduced as tools for understanding the recursive nature of life-patterns and the therapeutic process of re-coherence. Through clinical applications, visual mandalas, symbolic glyphs, and case studies — from chronic pain and autoimmunity to Long COVID and somatic repatterning — the framework equips practitioners, educators, and policymakers with a new language of pattern literacy, interoceptive listening, and systemic integration.

The result is a regenerative medical cosmology that invites us to see the body — and the world — not as fragmented and flawed, but as a dynamic expression of evolving coherence, resonant intelligence, and symbolic becoming.

Cancer as Pattern: A Regenerative Model of Coherence, Breakdown, and Healing | ChatGPT4o

This book presents a new integrative model of cancer that reframes it not as a genetic aberration or isolated cellular malfunction, but as a systemic signal of disrupted coherence — across biological, ecological, symbolic, and societal scales. Grounded in contemporary research from mitochondrial medicine, bioelectric morphogenesis, fascia science, and systems theory, this work explores cancer as an evolutionary and developmental reversion under constraint failure.

The model synthesizes physical (tensegrity, redox dynamics, interstitial flow), informational (bioelectric, metabolic, and narrative signaling), and symbolic (meaning, trauma, story) domains to illuminate cancer’s genesis and trajectory as a patterned breakdown in the body’s terrain. It extends this understanding outward — connecting chronic disease with planetary degradation, economic trauma, and institutional incoherence — and proposes a regenerative, coherence-first approach to both therapy and civilization design.

By integrating clinical insights, scientific rigor, symbolic literacy, and ecological ethics, Cancer as Pattern offers a comprehensive framework for a new era of medicine — one that heals by restoring flow, form, and meaning at every level of life.

Constructal Law and Its Corollaries of Extremum Principles for Energy Expenditure and Entropy Production | A. Heitor Reis

It is shown how both the principles of extremum of entropy production, which are often used in the study of complex systems, follow from the maximization of overall system conductivities, under appropriate constraints. In this way, the maximum rate of entropy production (MEP) occurs when all the forces in the system are kept constant. On the other hand, the minimum rate of entropy production (mEP) occurs when all the currents that cross the system are kept constant. A brief discussion on the validity of the application of the mEP and MEP principles in several cases, and in particular to the Earth’s climate is also presented.

In a recent paper [1] Reis showed that both the principles of extremum of entropy production rate, which are often used in the study of complex systems, are corollaries of the Constructal Law. In fact, both follow from the maximization of overall system conductivities, under appropriate constraints. In this way, the maximum rate of entropy production (MEP) occurs when all the forces in the system are kept constant. On the other hand, the minimum rate of entropy production (mEP) occurs when all the currents that cross the system are kept constant.

In this paper it is shown how the so-called principle of “minimum energy expenditure” which is often used as the basis for explaining many morphologic features in biologic systems, and also in inanimate systems, is also a corollary of Bejan’s Constructal Law [2].

Following the general proof some cases namely, the scaling laws of human vascular systems and river basins are discussed as illustrations from the side of life, and inanimate systems, respectively.

Thermodynamics today | Prof. Adrian Bejan

In this paper I use the example set by Prof. Jan Szargut as point of reference for a brief look at the current state of thermodynamics—the doctrine, its reach and importance. I start with my first encounter with Prof. Jan Szargut in 1979, and I show how his work influenced mine. Next, I review the structure that underpins thermodynamics as a discipline: the laws and the self-standing phenomena that they underpin, and graphic methods that convey these principles. Along the way, I draw attention to a recent trend that is caused by the inflation in scientific publishing due to the internet: the most common mistakes and misconceptions in thermodynamics, and how they are being spread. In sum, this paper is a call to action, to value, improve and defend the science of thermodynamics. Read More

Helping to evolve our planetary abode to greater and better futures

The inspiration of this article was the discovery of the missing universal Constructal Law by Prof Adrian Bejan which grounds securely Prof McMurtry’s LVOA from which to anchor and steer his prescriptions. Interestingly, both the Primary Axiom of Life Value and the Constructal Law of Life can both be seen as different representations of the same unifying life principle…