Electric Tissues, Veins and Organs

Self-Organization in Electric Cell Networks

Continues from The Electric Cell Network

To extend the idea of a network of electric cells slowly replicating, imagine now a sizable cluster of these cells of a similar nature forming a lump of tissue.

The plasma provides the electrical energy they need, but the cells also consume resources like water and oxygen and have products like carbon-dioxide that are essential for their internal working. These molecules have mass and have to be moved to where they are needed.

In a big cluster of cells currents of ions would start to form dendritic streams and rivers of flow through the cells. These streams of current create weak magnetic fields around them too, drawing in other cells around them like lava tubes to form capillaries and veins.

Capillaries form dendritic channels like the roots of a plant

We see exactly the same patterns emerge within fungus growing in the soil of a forest.

Fungus growing in soil shows the same dendritic channels

At the scale of organs the flow of molecules and energy is much more intense, it is not enough to rely upon the motion of ions to guarantee recourses will be delivered through the plasma to where they are needed in a timely fashion. A circulatory system becomes essential to pump matter around the body fast enough to keep up with biological demand and specialised cells are required to facilitate the fast transport of essential molecules like oxygen.

Not all organisms need this. Plants rely upon molecules moving through their sap without a heart and many other small organisms cope without one too. But for animals that need to move around, they are essential. The Electric nature of the Heart is the topic of my next instalment.

Interestingly, we find exactly the same distribution of matter in patterns at the Cosmic scale, which to me suggests that the Universe itself may well be some impossibly vast organism.

The Cosmic Web

When cells cluster together the internal ones are subjected to different geometries and all the light that comes to them has first passed through (and been modified by) the cells around them, and they correspondingly radiate their light to all the cells around them.

Bubbles within bubbles create their own geometry

Now I can’t yet understand how this works, but I believe it is a combination of this geometry and the light flowing through cells in the the bodies field that causes cells to specialize and it must be the specialization of cells that causes different tissues and ultimately organs to form.