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Transition Phenomena in Living Matter

Summary/Abstract: Starting from the author’s personal experiences, this article defines transition phenomena as sudden, abrupt changes in one or more observables in response to a continuously adjusted external factor, such as spatial displacement, time, or other factors. Reflecting on the natural transition phenomena of adolescence, birth, and conception, the author realizes that his life has existed continuously for approximately 4 billion years. Therefore, every person’s life history is the history of life on our planet, over which three major natural transitions have occurred: the emergence of cellular life from a nonliving steady-state nonequlibrium system, the emergence of eukaryotic cells, and the emergence of multicellularity. Finally, the societal and personal implications of this view of life are discussed.

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