System's biology

One day I come back home happy with the fact that I have learned a new term – System’s biology!  In broader terms it’s a new field biologists have borrowed from the electrical’s field to understand the cell mechanisms in a whole new way with fewer assumptions and simple lovely equations(courtesy: Occam’s Razor) , after all mathematics rules the world and apparently mother nature has also used a calculator to design her system ! I never took an electrical class in my undergrad and was not familiar with the terms like feedback loop, feed forward loop, negative/positive auto regulation and was amazed by the fact that these technical terms can also be used to describe cell interactions or protein production in biology.
But on second thoughts, it occurred to me that these loops are used in electrical engineering to control electrons which are also a part of nature and all natural things have the same basic way of regulation! And then during my cognitive sessions with myself, I realized these loops are part of our mundane life.
For instance, talking of time response and auto-regulation.A negative reaction or a doing something bad takes a faster action time from the people or spreads faster. Whereas a good piece of work always takes ample amount of time to reach its steady state, sometimes appreciated posthumously! Again different network motifs determine the on and off state of an emotion in an individual and also the AND and OR gate channels.
For example if we discuss the coherent type 1 Feed forward loop (FFL). X motivates your friend Y and you, but after some threshold time your friend Y might just get bored with work and starts complaining about it.Now if you choose an AND gate, you would also stop working and start complaining about work and life just like your friend without paying any heed to X’s incessant motivation. However if you choose OR gate, you will continue to work with dedication because you have X’s support even if Y has left.Now you would be thinking OR is a better Gate. Well both these systems have delay time and it is for us to decide which one is best for us in a particular situation.In nature all these interactions are co-ordinated in a timely manner and any mutation or delay in one off the network leads to deleterious circumstances which is also the same in humans and their network of social relations.It is not very difficult to see science in everyday life – the positive auto-regulation of the water cycle or the negative auto regulation of pollution by global warming ! It is indeed fascinating when you realize the power of nature and how it regulates its cornucopia of networks(including human emotional network) by these simple loops!