Mathematical Biophysics and Psychology

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In building a system of mathematical biophysics, as the foundation of which we took the phenomena of cellular multiplication, we have had naturally several occasions to discuss also various physico-mathematical aspects of psychological phenomena. This is not surprising, since the latter forms a prominent branch of general biology. There is, however, still a big difference in our treatment of biophysics of general biology and in the treatment of biophysics of psychology. In the former we started with a rather general concept of a metabolising system and developed therefrom in an almost purely deductive, synthetic way an elaborate abstract theoretical system of biophysics, which incidentally happened to throw interesting light on actual real phenomena of cellular biology. We intentionally underline here the word “incidentally”, to emphasize that, although we consider the development of mathematical biophysics as eventually of greatest importance for the interpretation of empirical biology, we do not consider this “utilitarian” aim as the principal driving motive for our study.

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