Reconsidering Biological Structure as a Field Variable in Intrinsic Health | ChatGPT5.1

Cohen et al. (2025) advance a powerful reconceptualization of health as an intrinsic, field-like property emerging from the interaction of energy, communication, and structure. While their treatment of energy and communication as organism-level integrated variables is compelling, their conclusion that biological structure can only be represented as a “laundry list” of independent components introduces a conceptual asymmetry that is no longer supported by contemporary biophysics. Here, I argue that biological structure is best understood as a continuous, dynamic field governed by multiscale tensegrity and cytoskeletal electromechanics, with microtubules serving as active oscillatory mediators between structural geometry, metabolic energy, and bioelectric communication. When structure is treated as a field rather than an inventory, global structural integrity becomes theoretically definable and empirically measurable. This reframing restores full triadic symmetry to the intrinsic health framework and strengthens its physical grounding across biological scales.

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