Final keynote statements

The following is a list of conclusions from these explorations and many reflexions on the living matter observed in the light of the surgical experience, clinical cases and their evolutions.

  • The continuous, permanent link between all the components of the microvacuolar system provides the architectural organization and fibrillar framework that explains and confirms the concept of structured form.
  • One of the aims of all these works is to suggest a new model that describes the structural framework of the human body and the basic architecture of living matter, in other words, a new structural ontology.
  • The living matter of our bodies is a unified whole.
  • At the mesoscopic level, the first observation of note is the continuity of tissue.
  • A connective tissue network exists throughout the body, from the macroscopic to the microscopic level, providing both fibrillar and histological continuity.
  • There are numerous cell-free spaces, but they are not empty spaces.
  • The multifibrillar and multimicrovacuolar framework of connective tissue, which is found everywhere in the body, is essentially of an irregular and fractal organization.
  • There are identifiable physical links between the skin surface and the deeper structures, which permit flexibility of the skin.
  • The epimysium, perimysium, and endomysium together form one continuous structure. In contrast to the lengthened, longitudinal, and parallel aspect of the muscle cells, their architecture is neither parallel nor regular.
  • The periosteum and bone are an integral part of the body-wide fibrillar network.
  • The microcirculation is an integral component of the multifibrillar network .
  • The fibrillar network has an undeniable influence on the cytoskeleton within the cell.
  • Is there an underlying order within the apparent disorder of these interlacing and interweaving fibers?
  • Living form has to be structured, but it also needs to be mobile, supple, adaptable, and self-sufficient.
  • There is total continuity between the cells and the intercellular spaces.
  • The use of the irregular polyhedron as the fundamental unit of form seems to be a necessary consequence of the basic physical forces acting on living organisms.
  • The structural components of our tissues are in a permanent state of preexisting endogenous tension.
  • Fractalization adds another dimension to the chaotic aspect of living matter. Fractal structures lack regularity, but this irregularity is neither random nor arbitrary. There is regularity in the irregularity.
  • A scar does not have any functional use. Its sole purpose is to plug the gap in the damaged tissue.
  • Connective tissue is, in fact, the Constitutive tissue. It doesn’t only link the different parts together but it is the frame in which parts are developed.
  • Fascia could be this tensional, continuous fibrillar network within the body, extending from the surface of the skin to the nucleus of the cell. This global network is mobile, adaptable, fractal, and irregular; it constitutes the basic structural architecture of the human body.
  • Deterministic chaotic behavior is one of nature’s potential dynamic capabilities. It broadens the field of possible solutions, allows them to be explored more efficiently, and permits greater complexity.