With or Without Nervous System, the Living Organisms Are Informational Decision-Making Structures

While the present level of the understanding of life mechanisms is limited to the biological approach, and consciousness is still considered a mystery, even impossible to be understood, or requiring a revolution in neurosciences, this paper reveals the informational substrate of the structuration and functioning of the living organisms, showing that not only those with nervous system, but also all other living structures are able of a decision-making process. On the basis of a new concept of matter-related information, and multiple interactions/transductions between mobile and fix micro/macro body structures, it is shown that both at the level of eukaryotic cell and human multicellular organism, such processes are operable: the connection with the implicit genetic source allows the body structuration, while the connection with the external/internal informational sources, the adaptation. An explicit relation of Self, as a function of the cognitive centers is given for human, and an equivalent relation for the subhuman organisms too. This is a unique/successful model explaining living and consciousness, opening new and successful applications in other related fields.