Note 197

The [problem of] muscle-"reaction", in which, with the help of the phosphate-transferring ferment system, to the contracted energy-impoverished myosin-system, energy is re-supplied, and 1 mole ATP reacts with about 10-5 gr myosin = about 103 amino acids + peptid bondings, appears to be solvable wholly rationally in a classical way. Then, so taken, in the organismic at most only a minimum of "mysterious forces" are active, yes, ultimately no such forces at all. And the complexity and laboriousness of the whole, partly linear, partly cyclic, processes appear to be "life-characteristic" enough to declare these events to be "as good as" solved. On closer inspection one must, however, discover that only superficial observers will be satisfied with inexact demands and merely having refuted vital-dreamers. The driving-component of the processes taken as a  whole  will not be discovered in  this  way, the way of detail-process analysis.

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