George,
I believe that the biggest mistake in doing science is that those that do it forget to consider if we measured 'who' is really doing it. Until we physically define "who" the rest is bolderdash!
Life being the top/down scaling from the universe/galaxy/life/orgen/cell/ ... yes, absolutely! The top/down rings with many essays, except, all fail to describe exactly what's scaling .... I believe it's life scaling from the amoeba to the whale to the galaxy to the cluster ... all obeying "life physical sense like scaled relations."
Regarding M-Theory connection,
Here is where depart in our line of thought. While I do agree that the physics we know today can measure the same "life measures" w/o invoking string theory, the standard model theory today does not include the details in what transpires prior to the measure.... the thought process that is believed directly coupled to the 26 dimensional boson strings (bosonic string is Klien Gordon information). Information from the remaining 5 strings (these provide the standard physics matched life information- 5 strings are Dirac equation information) may be shown to directly couple to a tackyonic bosonic string that represents the accumulation of thoughts that led to the physically measurable action (the many future event decisions are contemplated in thought - standard physics would call this the space of the collapse of the wavefunction. .... rediculous... this is the space of accumulating thoughts that consider exactly what physical path to take while following a line of continual thought!
When you present the complete string basis to model life we may be capable of correlating each element in the "physical sense scaling" to a measurable "life fortifying and preserving" information quantity. We need to connect the modeled physical string components the the real, measurable life information transfer paths in order to better model "life information dynamics." electromagnetism, biophysics, and molecular biology ... yes... and don't forget genetics ...
For instance: Vision -> Light information enters the eyes and is focussed through a lens, moving through optic fluid, on to make a scaled, inverted image the retina. There is a transfer of information to the rods and cones (an accumulation period) and then the "light information converted" sterographic image information (2 eyes) bio-electrically travels down the two optic fibers to the brain where there is an accumulation period, etc, etc. When we take all the "electromagnetism, biophysics, and molecular biology, etc, etc" that includes all we know anout light entering the pupils, refraction, reflection, transmission, spectral responses .... we will find precise string models of the measured information that scales at the precise location/time to again accumulate and transfer information that can be modeled in the "thoughts - the consideration period - Feynman life path space modeled in the bosonic string.
Therefore, string theory brings the modeling elements required for us to build the space of life information that I believe is modeled by the Riemann Zeta space. The standard model with all it's particles/fields/... numerous degrees of freedom have NO evident life information building structure ... and .... the standard model of physics would be considered the result of Science being blinded to the "life" connection.
Once we eventually figure this out (should it be in our future).... can you imagine the potential impact on things like .... psycology, medicine, chemistry, etc., human psysiology will take center stage (quite literally). I don't know about you, but, I have seen enough cancer, disease, etc., and to be a GUT my gut says that it will have a "white blood cell affect" on us in ways we have yet to fathom!
Thank you for providing well noted comments -
Tony DiCarlo