Psychology in Practice - Abstract
Fatty acids have this characteristic that they carry chemical and physical information. The former has received most if not all the scientific attention so far, most probably because the chemical part is tangible. The hydrocarbon moiety of fatty acids is hydrophobic by nature, therefore insoluble in water. When attached to a phosphate group though, they produce phospholipids which have a natural tendency to self- assemble into cell membranes, the substrate of all biological life on Earth. When in cell membranes, they are involved in all kinds of chemical reactions which transform them into as many intra- and extra-cellular communicators, mediators and regulators. Those “body” metabolic aspects of fatty acids have been reviewed extensively and intensively over the past 10-15 years. Eventually, business vehicles such as the Columbus Concept were developed and established to take Science to Market.
No matter how important fatty acids chemistry is though, it goes without saying that their origin, ie their natural selection, has to do with physics and their inherent ability to capture time/space-related information (chronomes) from the cosmos. The allylic double bond of evolutionary selected unsaturated fatty acids has indeed all that it takes to record time-structure cyclicity of each and all relevant events biological life is submitted to on Earth, all the way up from the inception of RNA, DNA, protein, lipids and carbohydrates, to their assemblage into complex life system as we know today.
But, just as it wasn’t enough, fatty acids in cell membranes appear as the ideal candidate for the long looked-for substrate of the “mind”, ie the yet un-encoded physical information which, as a matter of fact, determine Behavior.