Note 318

Granting also the inorganic molecule an ESF as existential function, then we have to do with something superficially very different, which, in this form of evident stability, is in the organismic --as it is generally treated -- perhaps not at all considered. Anyway, one should beware of the following error :  Concerning a specific ESF granted to, say, atoms, to assert that this atomic ESF is still present  within  inorganic or organismic molecules constituted of such atoms. For analytic chemistry the atoms are completely conserved in the chemical compounds. But their qualitative essential content and with it also the ESF characterising that content has [in the compound] vanished and is now merely a hardly or not at all knowable constituent of the new unity with new ESF. A summarizing, a taking together, has taken place [in the formation of the chemical compound, the new molecule] which qualitatively is something new. In inorganic molecules probably there is [still] a constituent-incrementary additivity with simultaneous short circuitry of that what appears in organismic molecules as their nature.
For this our mathematical means may be rather inappropriate, so that the -- resulting from the interaction of mutually themselves "creating" (i.e. initially only potentially present) configurative situations -- superposition result neither can be apprehended additively nor be accessible to analysis. Our ESF is, it is true, "localized" (determined, symbolized) in the inner molecular atomic equivalents (in which we in the case of larger organisms also have to do with a significant quantitative participation, based on metamerization and differentiation), but is taken together in and over the whole macro-molecule, resulting in it [the ESF] to be a whole as is that [the molecule] to which it refers.

Even when it would be possible to more or less express a summated or superpositioned ["superpositioned" in the sense of quantum wave mechanics, i.e. in the sense of a not yet determined state of some quantum particle, determined only after measurement, i.e. after collapse of the wave-function] total-function by a wave-mechanical system of equations, only a physical aspect is then described. It would, for the time being, of no use to biologists. But perhaps they would be proud of the fact that their very original objects have now become to be among the most interesting and new objects that are being investigated by abstract atomic physics.

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